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Why Yahoo Doesn’t Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem

Peter Kafka in Media May 18, 2013 at 8:12 pm PT

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Time Machine! Tumblr’s David Karp in 2007, Age 21.

Peter Kafka in Media May 17, 2013 at 3:03 pm PT

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Syrian Electronic Army Leaves Its Mark on the Financial Times

in News on May 17 at 7:52 am PT

Another western media organization is attacked by the pro-Assad group of digital pranksters.
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Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA

in Social on May 17 at 5:00 am PT

Effective spycraft has long called for cover — a job, family or routine that would keep a government agent from drawing undue attention. Now, that calculation extends to spies’ use of social media.

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Pace Picks Up on Tech IPOs

in News on May 16 at 11:00 pm PT

A year after Facebook Inc.’s botched initial public offering, Silicon Valley’s IPO pipeline is starting to fill up again.

Support for Facebook, Twitter and Video Streaming Coming to Google Glass, With New Tools on the Way

in Mobile on May 16 at 10:24 am PT

In addition to the new partners, Google says a broader set of developer tools are coming.
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With New Twitter Partnership, Yahoo Folds Tweets Into Its News Stream

in Social on May 16 at 10:16 am PT

Yahoo brings real-time Twitter news to the Yahoo News feed.
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Microsoft’s Anti-Google Campaign Gets a Boost, From Google

in Media on May 15 at 9:37 pm PT

Google tells Microsoft to turn off a home-grown YouTube app. Microsoft couldn’t be happier.
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Google+ Gets a Bit More Pinteresting

in Social on May 15 at 10:40 am PT

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Airline Humor

Virgin America flight attendant on landing: “If your mobile device is within reach, you can stop pretending it’s turned off now.”

– Andy Baio (@waxpancake) via Twitter

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ESPN, Twitter Expand Collaboration

in Media on May 13 at 3:24 pm PT

ESPN and Twitter Inc. are announcing a major expansion of their collaboration to post sports-related videos on the short-messaging service—part of a growing wave of tie-ups as TV networks and Twitter hunt for new advertising revenue.

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Twitter Acquires Data Mining Startup Lucky Sort

in Social on May 13 at 1:49 pm PT

Twitter announced on Monday it acquired Lucky Sort, a startup focused on making “huge document sets easier to analyze, summarize and visualize.” Three team members from the startup will join Twitter’s revenue engineering department in San Francisco, and the company will slowly transition users off of its system before Twitter shutters the startup’s existing products.

SoundCloud Starts Pushing Its Own Native Ads Out of a New York Outpost

in Media, May 13, 2013 at 6:00 am PT

Terminal Snooping

The Onion, Yahoo-Hulu and Android on Windows — 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week

in News, May 12, 2013 at 9:18 am PT

Why The Onion Is Awesome for Publishing Details of Its Twitter Hack

in News, May 10, 2013 at 5:59 am PT

Nuclear Exit

Twitter Buys Scalable Computing Outfit Ubalo

Someone May Have Tweeted Warnings Ahead of Syrian Internet Outage

in News, May 9, 2013 at 8:39 am PT

“Bromance Gone Awry” and Other Instagram Tidbits on Bloomberg West (Video)

in Media, May 8, 2013 at 11:55 am PT

Accel’s Breyer Leads Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors Again, While Kleiner’s Doerr Leads in Media Scrutiny

in Media, May 8, 2013 at 9:12 am PT

Syrian Internet and Phone Blackout Enters Second Day

in News, May 8, 2013 at 6:23 am PT

White House Taps Twitter Legal Vet for Tech Advisor Post

in Social, May 7, 2013 at 11:06 am PT

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Syrian Hackers Turn Tables, Hack The Onion’s Twitter Account

in News, May 6, 2013 at 4:06 pm PT

“Path Does Not Spam Users”: Dave Morin Talks About the Hyper-Growth Pains of a “Personal Network”

in Social, May 6, 2013 at 7:27 am PT

Dick Costolo Tweets Out His University of Michigan Commencement Speech

in Media, May 4, 2013 at 5:23 pm PT