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Secretary of State cites citizen media reports from Syria in criticism of attack 27 Aug 2013 | 06:21 am
A large number of videos, photos and graphic descriptions of chemical-weapon attacks on civilians have been coming out of Syria over the past day, and it is clear they have made an impact not just on ...
Facebook will pay $15 per user after judge approves final $20M ad settlement 27 Aug 2013 | 04:40 am
Facebook will pay out $9 million to approximately 614,000 users as part of a $20 million legal settlement that is intended to compensate users for the social network’s decision to display their pictur...
Coinbase seeks to spur Bitcoin merchants with free processing up to $1M USD 27 Aug 2013 | 02:57 am
Bitcoin, the crypto-currency that fascinates speculators and tech types, is still struggling to break into mainstream commerce. To prod its popularity, the wallet and exchange service, Coinbase, launc...
Apple: Feds aim to “give Amazon a significant competitive advantage” in ebooks case 27 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
In court filings posted Monday morning, Apple attorney Orin Snyder responded to the Department of Justice’s revised proposed punishment for the tech company in the ebooks case. Snyder criticized the g...
Feedly dominating the post-Reader world, and other web-publishing insights from Parse.ly 26 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
Parse.ly, the web-publishing analytics startup that launched in early 2012, has released the first edition of what’s expected to be a monthly look into the top sources driving traffic to publishers’ s...
Are tech firms the new movie villains? 26 Aug 2013 | 10:26 pm
In the hit summer film World’s End, a beer-chugging loser drives off a benevolent computer network that has come to enslave humanity for its own good. At the end of the film, as a character tells the ...
The man behind Netflix’s original TV shows 26 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-netflix-ted-sarandos-20130825-dto,0,1864697.htmlstory Love binge watching Netflix shows like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards? The...
The shock of inclusion: Why the NSA story has turned journalist against journalist 26 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
In a Monday piece for the New York Times, media writer David Carr looks at how the ongoing revelations about the NSA and its surveillance of U.S. citizens have turned journalists against each other, w...
Feedly Pro launches to everyone, offering search and Evernote integration for $5/month 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
RSS reader Feedly, which has emerged as the leading alternative to Google Reader, is making its paid version, Feedly Pro, available to everyone on Monday. The general launch comes a few weeks after Fe...
Medium needs to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up 24 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
What is Medium? Or, more importantly, what does it want to be? A growing number of media observers have tried to attack that question, the latest being Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic, who was ultimat...
