Guardian: Yahoo poised to buy Tumblr for rumoured $1.1bn

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You will be responsible for devising and executing the strategies that make Twitter indispensable to newsrooms and journalists, as well as an essential part of the operations and strategy of news organizations and TV news networks. You should have a strong vision for the broad potential of Twitter and news, while also being able to rigorously manage and scale the news team’s daily impact.
Job posting by Twitter, suggesting they’re planning on adding a fullblown news service.
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CISPA is dead — for the time being. [photo by Valters Krontals]
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CISPA is dead — for the time being.

[photo by Valters Krontals]

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Cyber-currency Bitcoin crashing. [image by TraderTim]
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Cyber-currency Bitcoin crashing.

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Yes, there is life after Google Reader.
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Yes, there is life after Google Reader.

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FCC expands bandwidth for Wi-Fi access. [image source]
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FCC expands bandwidth for Wi-Fi access.

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The ‘malware-industrial complex’: how US pursuit of cyberwarfare tech makes the web less safe for everyone. [image source]
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The ‘malware-industrial complex’: how US pursuit of cyberwarfare tech makes the web less safe for everyone.

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After nearly nine years of blogging, and 18 years of online organizing, I’m still routinely amazed by the power of the progressive blogosphere, and more generally the power of the Internet for political advocacy.
John Aravosis, on the removal of a homophobic pastor from the President’s inaugural program under pressure from the lefty blogosphere.
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Web monitor: 100 percent of Syria’s Internet just shut down

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Pres. Obama calls in the internets for backup in tax cut fight.
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Pres. Obama calls in the internets for backup in tax cut fight.

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