Facebook CEO wants more students to explore tech
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to turn more American high school students into well-paid techies — and even hire some of them to work at his social-media company.
View ArticleNYSE tests systems, to brief investors before Alibaba’s debut
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange tested its trading systems over the summer to make sure Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s market debut on Friday goes without a hitch, after...
View ArticleExclusive: TD Ameritrade sees premarket orders for Alibaba approach Facebook...
(Reuters) – TD Ameritrade has seen the number of investor orders for shares of Alibaba Group Holding hit 70 percent of the number of orders that came in during premarket trading at the Facebook initial...
View ArticleTwitter parody plays differently in middle America
CHICAGO (AP) — Jon Daniel was watching cartoons with one of his sons when he created a spoof Twitter account in the name of the Peoria mayor. Out of boredom, he said, he soon began sending profane...
View ArticleHipsterbait: Irking hipsters, one meta T-shirt at a time
Artist Eric Drass, aka Shardcore, turns image faux pas into infuriating meta fashion statements with his latest Twitter bot, Hipsterbait1.
View Article‘Tusk’ review: Kevin Smith turns a weird podcast into an even weirder movie
Twitter gives up gifts all the time. In June 2013, around 11 minutes into his weekly podcast, director Kevin Smith introduced a strange story that hed come across on Twitter. Smith and his co-host...
View ArticleU.K. PM Backpedals On ‘Encryption Ban’, Sort Of
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has been weathering a Twitter storm of mockery for comments he made yesterday in which he appeared to suggest it would be the intention of a future Conservative...
View ArticleFacebook fixed 61 high-severity flaws last year through its bug bounty program
As a result of reports received through its #bug bounty program #facebook confirmed and fixed 61 high-severity vulnerabilities last year, almost 50 percent more than in 2013.Since 2011, the company has...
View ArticleWant to secure your social info? Facebook shows you how
Facebook today launched 11 interactive guides and how-tos to help users secure their #social information. The new guides, which can be found on the Facebook Privacy Basics site, are designed to help...
View ArticleFacebook publishes new security settings guide
Now that it’s made its privacy settings drop-dead simple, Facebook’s turned to the cobwebby murk of its security tools to do some spring cleaning. On Friday, it uncorked 11 new visual and interactive...
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