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Yahoo Offer to Buy Contact Startup Xobni Is at a Price of $30M to $40M
Yahoo’s new HR rule: If you can’t hire them, buy their company.
Yahoo Mulling Buy of Address Book App Maker Xobni
Yahoo is in serious discussions to buy Xobni, maker of address book apps and plugins.
“Path Does Not Spam Users”: Dave Morin Talks About the Hyper-Growth Pains of a “Personal Network”
The Path CEO addresses spamming accusations and concerns about his startup’s recent viral growth in an interview with AllThingsD.
News Byte
Path Stumbles on Privacy Issues. Again.
Path on Friday acknowledged a flaw in the company’s iOS application, which attached location data to imported photos taken with the Apple Camera app, even if users had turned off the location services setting in the menu. “We were unaware of this issue and have implemented a code change to ignore the EXIF tag location,” Path product manager Dylan Casey wrote in response to a security researcher’s discovery of the flaw. Update: As of 2:59 p.m PT., the updated Path app is now live in Apple’s App Store for download.Facebook Cuts Off Friend-Finding Access to Vine, Twitter’s New Video App
Well, that was fast. But we knew it was coming.
New Address? Addappt Lets Friends Follow All Your Moves.
Walt Mossberg reviews Addappt’s free service and iPhone app that allows certain people in your address book to automatically update your contact information for them.
Q&A: Behind Brewster, the Buzzy New Modern Address Book
Brewster founder Steve Greenwood explains his aim to replace the mobile contacts app with one that understands the complexity of digital relationships.
Banjo’s Response to Congress on iOS Address Book Privacy (Letter)
Here’s Banjo’s reply to Congress over the iOS address book sharing scandal.
Congress to Apple: One More Thing …
Looks like Congress isn’t quite through scrutinizing Apple’s consumer privacy protections.
Voices
iPhone Address Book Rage (Comic)
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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