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Facebook accounts for 3/5 of all social logins

It shouldn't surprise anyone that Facebook is the king of social logins. According to identity management platform Gigya, the social networking giant has managed to pass the 60% market share mark...

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IBM is planning thousands of layoffs this year

There have been some rumors going around that IBM is planning to cut around a fourth of its workforce, which would be more than 100,000 people. While it still looks...

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Facebook Lite is a new app specifically for developing nations

While Facebook users in the developed world don't really have to worry about the ludicrous amounts of data that the social network's mobile app sucks up, that isn't the case...

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Lizard Squad has hacked the Malaysia Airlines official website

Lizard Squad, the infamous hacking group that made a name for itself over the holidays when it took down both PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, has now conducted a cyberattack...

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Can privacy survive the evolution of the Internet?

We reported earlier this week that Google's vision of the future is one in which the internet is all-encompassing and ever present, but what does that mean for privacy. When...

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Google and Cloudera are bringing Dataflow to Spark

Google Cloud Dataflow allows developer to create and monitor their data-processing pipelines without the hassle of underlying clusters. Now the company is bringing this technology to Apache’s Spark data-processing engine with help...

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Text analytics service Equivio has been acquired by Microsoft

Equivio is a service for legal and compliance that utilizes various machine-learning techniques in order to analyze documents and identify what relevance they might have to the needs of Equivio's clients. Microsoft has...

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Snapchat might be charging brands a bit too much for advertisements

Snapchat has already managed to accumulate tens of millions of users, now it just needs to start making money off of them. However, while the My Story feature is the...

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Aol is about to undergo a massive restructuring

Aol was once an internet juggernaut and one of the most promising companies of its time, but as we all know, all of that has long since passed, and the...

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Apple cuts all ties to Crimea to comply with US sanctions

The relationship between Russia and the United States hasn't exactly been good these past few months due to Russia's annexation of Crimea and America's retaliatory economic sanctions. In order to...

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