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A “Probe in Your Pocket”? Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Andy Rubin Talk Smartphone Privacy at D8 and Dive.

Kara Swisher in News on April 26, 2011 at 8:19 am PT

We’ve done a lot of onstage interviews at our D: All Things Digital conferences with the leaders of tech. That includes Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google smartphone kingpin Andy Rubin, both of whom are now dealing with the fallout over a series of reports that iOS and Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to both companies. Here are both talking about the now-explosive issue of privacy.

Holy Start-Up Pileup! Social Networking Gets Professional.

Liz Gannes in Social on January 4, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

The same variety of apple has apparently been falling from trees all over Silicon Valley, hitting Web entrepreneurs on the head and inspiring them to create better ways to connect personal and professional social networks.

Facebook’s New(est) Approach to Privacy

John Paczkowski in Social on May 26, 2010 at 10:47 am PT

In a Washington Post editorial Monday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to simplify the privacy tools that have so befuddled the social networking site’s members and sparked complaints from privacy advocates and lawmakers. This morning, we found out just how he proposes to do that.

HTC Sues Apple: The Complaint and Patents [DOC]

John Paczkowski in News on May 12, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT

Earlier this morning, HTC said it has filed suit against Apple, accusing the company of infringing on five of its patents. After the jump, a copy of the suit and a list of the intellectual property at issue in it.

When GeoCities Grabbed the Web's Golden Ticket–A Trip Down Silicon-Valley-Has-No-Memory Lane

Kara Swisher in News on April 24, 2009 at 12:13 am PT

In Web years, BoomTown is now officially 143 years old. Why? Well, I was the one who got to write the big Page One piece in The Wall Street Journal after GeoCities was sold to Yahoo in January of 1999 for $5 billion in stock. GeoCities was, in its way, the Facebook of its time. But, instead of “friends,” its users were “homesteaders.” As Cher so eloquently sings: Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end. Except they did. Yahoo announced yesterday that it was closing the GeoCities unit down, part of new CEO Carol Bartz’s war against useless assets at the troubled company. But let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?