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Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 15, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT
A Chinese court sentenced three people to prison terms for collaborating to steal information from a key supplier regarding Apple Inc.’s iPad 2 several months before its release, the latest outcome from leaks about products made by the technology giant.
Kara Swisher in News on January 18, 2011 at 2:50 pm PT
Goldman Sachs seems to have borked the $1.5 billion deal to sell Facebook shares to its rich U.S. clients, because so much information about it leaked everywhere.
That’s right! The loquacious Wall Street bankers are back to take Web 2.0′s social stars public and, of course, are oversharing already.
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Voices, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 4, 2011 at 8:35 pm PT
We might have assumed that users would flee Delicious after Yahoo announced it was shuttering the popular bookmarking service. What we didn’t know was how fast the lifeboats were filling.
Until now.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 8, 2010 at 3:29 pm PT
PayPal has just released the remaining funds in the account associated with WikiLeaks today, after restricting access to the account last week, according to a PayPal blog post. However, it did not not reinstate the ability for it to receive donations.
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Nitrozac and Snaggy in News on December 6, 2010 at 5:15 pm PT
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. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
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Beth Callaghan in News on December 1, 2010 at 1:12 pm PT
WikiLeaks has left its U.S. host, Amazon Web Services, and moved its operations back to Sweden. The whistleblowing site had left Bahnhof, its Swedish host, and sought refuge with Amazon after Sunday’s leak of U.S. State Department documents left it besieged by almost constant DDOS attacks. The site reported another DDOS attack early yesterday, and was down earlier today. Neither WikiLeaks nor Amazon has officially commented on their relationship or why it ended.
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Lauren A.E. Schuker, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 17, 2010 at 4:19 pm PT
Warner Bros. is investigating how the first 36 minutes of the newest “Harry Potter” film came to be posted on the Internet late Monday night, four days ahead of the movie’s world-wide theatrical debut on Friday.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 10, 2010 at 2:31 pm PT
Google couldn’t possibly think it could hand out checks to 23,000 people and keep it a secret. Right?
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Justin Scheck, Ben Worthen and Robert A. Guth, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 5, 2010 at 3:40 pm PT
A former Hewlett-Packard Co. contractor alleged in June that Mark Hurd, then the company’s chief executive, leaked to her details of the company’s plan to acquire Electronic Data Systems Corp. more than a month before the $13.9 billion deal was made public, according to people familiar with the situation.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 20, 2010 at 5:22 am PT
The Viacom chairman doesn’t like a story the Daily Beast ran about his infatuation with a “scantily clad girl group,” and he wants to know who leaked it. “You will be well-rewarded and well-protected,” he promises reporter Peter Lauria. Hear the voicemail for yourself.
