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US Civil Liberties Lawyers Outline Plan To Thwart 'Five Eyes' Mass...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital civil rights defense group based in San Francisco, unveiled a multi-step plan to end mass surveillance of Internet users anywhere in the world.Rainey...

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Wednesday: Autodesk Gallery Hosts 'Innovation by Design'

Join me for "Innovation by Design" Wednesday, January 28 from 6.30 to 10.30pm at the Autodesk Gallery (above), 1 Market Street, San Francisco.You'll be able to see a cast of interesting presenters over...

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Atoms Are More Profitable Than Electrons - $AAPL v $GOOG

 Google failed to build an Apple-like business -- its costly smashed handset strategy in buying then selling MotorolaGoogle $[GOOG] today reported fourth quarter 2014 revenues of $18.1 billion and net...

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The Crunchies' Bitchgate: High Horses With Fake Unicorn Horns Ignore Decades...

Cromwell Schubarth reports on Silicon Valley Business Journal that comedian TJ Miller won't be coming back next year as MC for The Crunchies awards following complaints about his "bitch" remark.Miller...

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Helmet IT: Motorcycles Get Smarter And Safer

The following article is by Intel Free Press - a small team of writers working at Intel.By Intel Free PressRiding a motorcycle is an amazingly freeing experience. The strong connection the rider has to...

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Redefining Public Relations: Are You Persuaded By 'Earned Influence'?

Paul Holmes (center) gives an award to Inner Circle Labs in early 2014.Paul Holmes of the Holmes Report, writes that, "The importance of defining public relations has never been greater than it is...

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Intel's Smart Toy Startup

We now have Barbie dolls connected to the Internet and new types of"smart" toys being introduced. The writers at Intel Free Press recall the time when Intel wanted to be in the toy business. By Intel...

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Cybereason: A Reason To Watch Cyber Attacks In Real Time

Cybereason is a Boston based security startup that offers clients the ability to reveal a cyber attack in their corporate networks in real-time and not shut-it down — at least not right away. The...

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A Profile Of Women In Engineering: Designing Emotionally Tuned Wearables At...

The writers at Intel Free Press have prepared a fascinating profile of Ramune Nagisetty, one of Intel's top engineers. She's developing wearables with abilities for emotional communications. [It's...

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HP hosts 1st 'Women in Tech Festival' - SVForum March 7

SVForum CEO Adiba Barney.This upcoming SVForum event comes at an excellent time for the gender discussion in Silicon Valley. Sooner than later, Silicon Valley investors and startups will realize that...

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Twitter CEO Wants More Readers - No Tweets Needed

Golden doors of Twitter HQ - Twitter says it is gentrifying the TenderloinThe New York Times' Farhad Manjoo, interviews Twitter CEO Dick Costello. He discusses some of the misconceptions about Twitter...

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Guest Column: The Complexities Of Governance In The Age Of Data 2.0

A data lake...The following is a guest column from Sharmila Mulligan, CEO and founder of ClearStory Data.By Sharmila MulliganIn the late 1990s, organizations struggled to solve the problem of who gets...

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Marissa Mayer Marks Yahoo's 20th Anniversary With Interview

Steven Levy on Medium's Backchannel, has an exclusive interview with Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, to mark the 20th anniversary of Yahoo and celebrate some of her achievements:Despite a lift in employee...

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What's Google Up To? It's Going To Become A Wireless Telco With iIs Own Fat...

Sometimes the future is very predictable...Google Confirms Plans for Wireless Service - NYTimes.com by Brian Chen.A person briefed on Google’s plans... said the company wanted to make use of the fiber...

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'Clean Cloud' Panel: Silicon Valley Giants Agree On Green Energy

Sustainability gurus from Facebook, Yahoo and Ebay all agreed that green energy is good for their users and good for the planet, on a panel Tuesday evening in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club of...

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The Incredible Scalability Of Content

The recent vast viral distribution of "The Dress" story through Buzzfeed, and many other popular news sites, created a media tsunami.It's an example of Foremski's First Law of New Media at work!

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Survey: CEOs Need To Raise Their Public Image And 'Engage' But Majority of...

 Charlene Li, author of "The Engaged Leader" at a recent event hosted by Weber Shandwick in San Francisco.Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) are coming under increasing pressure to "engage" with the...

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Visual San Jose Photo Contest Focuses On Historic Images

Credit: San Jose MercuryCharles DiLisio is a prominent Silicon Valley photographer focused on preserving the region's history. He tells me there's a new photo contest: Visual San Jose

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Secure Islands: Protecting Corporate Data As Soon As It's Created

Secure Islands, a privately held Israeli computer security company, opened its US HQ earlier this year in New York City. The company is confident in repeating the success it has enjoyed in Europe,...

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New Media Disrupted: GigaOm Web Sites Suddenly Stop Publishing

Above, at the recent Crunchies Awards, Om Malik (right) is told by Mike Arrington, founder of news site Techcrunch, that there's far more money in investing in startups than there is in publishing.The...

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