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Article | 23/03/2012 US lawmakers question iPhone app developers in privacy inquiry

Ranking Democrats Henry Waxman and G.K. Butterfield of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters on Thursday to developers of iOS apps...

Article | 23/03/2012 Facebook rolls out high-resolution photo display, full-screen viewer

Facebook now automatically displays shared photos at their highest possible resolution for users on a desktop and offers a full-screen viewing option,...

Article | 21/03/2012 Venmo aims to make mobile payments social

Venmo, a venture-funded East Coast startup, Tuesday publicly launched a person-to-person payment app that emphasizes sharing payments on social networ...

Article | 21/03/2012 FutureAdvisor launches comprehensive investment advice website

FutureAdvisor launched Tuesday a financial services website that displays, analyzes and offers advice about a user's entire investment portfolio.

Article | 20/03/2012 Jolicloud Me to integrate content from multiple online services

French startup Jolicloud announced a new service Monday that will allow users to access through a single interface the content they have published on ...

Article | 14/03/2012 SXSW: Location, location, location fuels mobile apps

Soon FourSquare won't be the only cool kid on the location-based apps block: A new wave of startups, including Highlight, Zaarly, TaskRabbit and Local...

Article | 12/03/2012 SXSW panel heats up over big data privacy concerns

A Sunday afternoon panel designed to address head-on privacy concerns stemming from so-called "big data" collection sparked passions even though both ...

Article | 11/03/2012 Glancee's Vaccari gives SXSW overview of social discovery apps

Social discovery apps, which alert users to potential social contacts in their proximity, are hot at this year's South by Southwest Interactive confer...

Article | 11/03/2012 SXSW panelists: Mobile payments poised to take off in US

Mobile payments will become ubiquitous -- really, this time -- in the next few years, according to a panel discussion at the SXSW conference Saturday....

Article | 9/03/2012 Facebook adds Interest Lists, steps up rivalry with Twitter

Facebook will soon roll out an "Add Interests" menu option that allows its users to subscribe to content feeds by subject area, the company said on Th...

Article | 8/03/2012 AllTuition is the star pupil at Launch conference

AllTuition, which launched a college financial-aid application service, won an informal vote among a high-powered panel of judges at the Launch confer...

Article | 6/03/2012 Yahoo layoffs would indicate company direction

Rumored layoffs at Yahoo could offer a clue as to how the company's new CEO, Scott Thompson, plans to redirect the stumbling Internet giant.

Article | 2/03/2012 Zynga to launch games platform, invites third-party developers

Zynga will launch its own social gaming platform and open it up to third-party game developers, the company announced on Thursday.

Article | 1/03/2012 Google ads chief: Personalization is the company's next big thing

Google's top advertising executive, Susan Wojcicki, said on Wednesday that Google's biggest innovations over the next several years will be in persona...

Article | 25/02/2012 Mobile data privacy is terra incognita to users and developers

President Obama's move Thursday to establish a so-called Privacy Bill of Rights for the Internet can be seen as the consolidation of decadelong effort...