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Facebookers hit with steamy clickjacking exploit

Facebook administrators have blocked a clickjacking exploit that displayed images of a scantily clad woman on profile pages without first prompting the user for permission.... (more)

Google Eats Another Ad Startup

Red Herring | 3 hours 56 minutes ago

Google on Monday said it has picked up online advertising startup Teracent.... (more)

Woman to fight insurance company over Facebook

USA TODAY | 3 hours 56 minutes ago

MONTREAL - A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party.... (more)

LinkedIn Opens Up To Outside Developers

MediaPost Communications | 3 hours 58 minutes ago

Unlike broader social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, LinkedIn hasn't raced to open its doors to third-party developers or partners. That's started to change recently, with its move this month allowing users to incorporate their Twitter accounts into LinkedIn profiles and vice versa.... (more)

Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline

Yahoo! | 4 hours 34 minutes ago

Laura Fitton's ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she's become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies.... (more)

Can Murdoch Help Bing Challenge Google and Shift the Content Equation?

CNBC | 4 hours 36 minutes ago

CNBC Correspondent Rupert Murdoch's latest gambit has the potential to have huge impact on the value of content industry wide; he could also risk losing a huge chunk of News Corp's readership. ... (more)

Google Buys Ad Start-Up Teracent

Internet Week | 4 hours 36 minutes ago

United Business Media... (more)

Underwhelmed By Chrome OS? That's Kinda the Point

Yahoo! | 4 hours 37 minutes ago

Google unveiled its open source Chrome OS on Thursday, many commentators were quick to dismiss the new operating system as unimpressive and underwhelming. Citing everything from the browser interface that represents the entirety of the user experience to its limited hardware support and inability to install apps or play PC games, early critics have slammed Google's cloud-based OS for being exactly what it is intended to be: lean, fast, and simple.... (more)

Microsoft, News Corp weigh web pact: source

Yahoo! | 4 hours 37 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.... (more)

Google buying display advertising startup

Yahoo! | 4 hours 37 minutes ago

Web search leader Google Inc said it is buying Silicon Valley display advertising technology startup Teracent, which expands its competition with display leader Yahoo Inc.... (more)

EETimes.com - ADI tops estimates, projects flat sales

Electronic Engineering Times (Asia) | 5 hours 7 minutes ago

ADI (Norwood, Mass.) said fiscal fourth quarter sales amounted to $571.6 million, up 16 percent from the previous quarter but down 13 percent compared to the year-ago quarter. Analysts were expecting, on average, for ADI to report revenue of just below $524 million, according to Yahoo Finance.... (more)

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