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  TaskRabbit takes on another $13 million in funding as investors bet big on peer-to-peer marketplaces

  By Adrianne Jeffries on July 23, 2012 05:17 pm + 6 comments

  A growing number of investors and entrepreneurs are betting that a new breed of Craigslist 2.0 Continue reading…

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  W3C and WHATWG finalize split on HTML5 spec, forking 'unlikely'

  By Jeff Blagdon on July 22, 2012 01:12 am + 53 comments

  One final link holding together two versions of the HTML specification is being severed, as the W3C Continue reading…

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  At HOPE, spies and the hackers who spy on them

  By Joshua Kopstein on July 20, 2012 01:57 pm + 6 comments

  With a plethora of provocatively-titled talks like "Twitter Revolution Meets Surveillance State: Now Continue reading…

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  Sources: Google's Sparrow purchase cost under $25 million, will bring 'beauty' to Gmail

  By Thomas Houston on July 20, 2012 01:15 pm + 405 comments

  Today, Sparrow's Dom Leca announced that his third party email client company had been purchased by Continue reading…

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  Tumblr users baffled by tacky banner ads

  By Adrianne Jeffries on July 20, 2012 12:50 pm + 14 comments

  Tumblr founder David Karp has loosened his hardline "no ads allowed" stance, but the young blog Continue reading…

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  Neustar calls BuzzFeed 'batshit crazy' for phone number surveillance report

  By Nilay Patel on July 20, 2012 11:56 am + 9 comments

  Last week BuzzFeed posted an intriguing look at a company called Neustar, which manages the central Continue reading…

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  Secret surveillance and gag orders highlight weak US data privacy laws

  By Joshua Kopstein on July 19, 2012 01:34 pm + 21 comments

  From cell phone tower dumps to the NSA's surveillance compound in Utah, the number of tools that Continue reading…

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  Highlight 1.2 solves some of the app's problems, but big questions remain

  By Dieter Bohn on July 19, 2012 09:01 am + 6 comments

  Highlight, the iPhone app which attempted to make a big splash at this year's SXSW conference, is Continue reading…

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  Senator Al Franken grills FBI, Facebook, and others on facial recognition technology

  By T.C. Sottek on July 18, 2012 05:00 pm + 27 comments

  Senator Al Franken, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, prodded Continue reading…

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  With hacker attacks on the rise, Facebook Connect emerges as security solution

  By Ellis Hamburger on July 18, 2012 11:50 am + 45 comments

  Last week, Formspring servers were compromised and over 420,000 hashed user passwords were stolen. Continue reading…