Yahoo’s Mayer Has Met with Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See at Premium Video Unit

How much is the Silicon Valley Internet giant willing to spend on turbocharging its video prospects?
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Some More Inconvenient Truths (Including Spider Goats): Al Gore Talks About “The Future” at SXSW

Live from Austin, Texas, it’s the man who brought you the Internet. (Really, he did, along with others.)
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Gavin Newsom Talks About Transparent Government (Video)

Can we build a digital Citizenville?
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News Byte

Next Up on Chinese Hacking Media List: The Washington Post

According to a report in the New York Times, along with that newspaper, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, another media organization targeted by hackers apparently originating out of China is the Washington Post. But, it might be worse than that. Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the issue in her final meeting with reporters, noting: “We have seen over the last years an increase in not only the hacking attempts on government institutions but also nongovernmental ones. [The Chinese] are not the only people who are hacking us.”

Twitter, Google Get More Transparent With Information Requests

An updated set of sites to celebrate Data Privacy Day. Huzzah!
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Toward a More Visual Language: How Social Networks Skirt Censorship in China

There are ways around the hard-and-fast rules of the state. Listen up, Facebook.
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Khosla Ventures Brings In Condoleezza Rice’s Firm for Strategic Role

Strategery plus!
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Voices

Hewlett Packard: Products Weren’t Knowingly Sold to Syria

Hewlett-Packard Co. says its technology wasn’t knowingly sold to Syria. The Palo Alto, Calif., technology giant made that assertion to the Securities and Exchange Commission in response to a letter dated Sept. 6 and disclosed in a recent regulatory filing.

Yahoo Loses Government Relations Head to Airbnb (Internal Memo Time!)

David Hantman will take on massive regulatory issues that the online rental start-up has attracted.
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