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Steven Sinofsky, a former executive with Microsoft and a major player on the Windows project, made a surprising announcement this morning. He is going to be joining venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner. But it isn’t a full time gig, he has explained. Last November, Sinofsky left […]
Today it was announced that Facebook will be leading a new group of technology companies dedicated to getting people connected on a mass scale. It is a partnership dedicated to improving the reach of the internet. Which means bringing billions of people without access around the world online for the […]
Technology law site Groklaw, which has won awards for its informative content often collaborated from emailed user tips and expertise, has shut down. Pamela Jones, the founder and site owner, has cited the fundamental lack of privacy on the web today as her reasoning behind the decision. Jones wrote an […]
A man from the West Bank who came across a security flaw in the Facebook privacy system used an unorthodox method of showing that it was real. But he won’t be getting his payday for the discovery. Facebook is like many technology companies, in that it pays people to discover […]
As is so often the case these days, yet more details have been leaked by Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency’s surveillance efforts. Only this time, it was something that we had already suspected: they regularly break their own rules. The lack of shock from the American public is […]
Facebook has announced that they will be testing out a new mobile payment service that could act as a potential alternative to financial banking system PayPal. Mobile payment platforms are all the rage at the moment, and that is a trend that won’t be going anywhere. People conduct a fair […]
The startup Matcha has been around since 2012, when they launched a service that tracks digital television services like Hulu and Amazon Prime. Earlier this year they suddenly shut down with no explanation, and there were rumors that they might have been bought out. Now those rumors have been verified, […]
