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LivingSocial Hack Update: Investigation Ongoing, While Emails Out to 50 Million Users
On the bright side … actually, there is no bright side.
LivingSocial Hacked — More Than 50 Million Customer Names, Emails, Birthdates and Encrypted Passwords Accessed (Internal Memo)
Another cyber-attack in a long line of worrisome incursions.
Please Welcome Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Brad Smith and Sean Parker to the ZuckerPAC
Mark Zuckerberg brings more of his powerful friends to the roster of his political advocacy group inside the Beltway.
Facebook Nabs Brunswick’s Buckley for Top Communications Job
A new PR dude we can irritate!
Khosla Ventures Brings In Condoleezza Rice’s Firm for Strategic Role
Strategery plus!
High-Profile Facebook Comms VP Joe Lockhart Departs
The D.C.-based communications pro leaves the company after a near-15-month stint.
Exclusive: Yahoo’s Mayer Aiming for Twitter’s Stanton for Big Media Role
Can the new CEO entice her old employee (and former Yahoo Finance kingpin) to come join her in remaking the troubled Silicon Valley Internet giant?
News Byte
Facebook Beats Its Own Quarterly Lobbying Spending Record
Facebook spent $960,000 on lobbying Congress in the second quarter, according to a recent disclosure filing. That’s the most the company has spent on lobbying in a single quarter, as National Journal notes. Among the issues lobbied were various consumer privacy acts, do-not-track legislation and the Global Online Freedom Act. Google also broke its own second-quarter record, spending close to $4 million.Forget Cleantech — It’s Cleanweb at SXSW
Can smartphones help save the planet?
Here Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Entrepreneur Sean Parker, Zynga’s Mark Pincus and More on the Red Hot Seat
Speakers? We got your speakers right here.