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Google gets more personal with search results (AP)

AP – Google is sifting through the photos and commentary on its blossoming social network so its Internet search results can include more personal information.

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Google Gets 200+ IBM Patents, Including One for a ‘Semantic Social Network’ (Mashable)

Mashable – Google got a late Christmas gift in the form of 217 patents, acquired by way of IBM. While the patents cover a variety of topics, one in particular could give the search giant a new tool for its social network, Google+.

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Hackers disclose Israelis’ credit card information (AP)

AP – Hackers claiming to be Saudis posted credit card information of thousands of Israelis on the Internet, credit card companies said Tuesday, in what appeared to be a politically motivated attack.

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Facebook makes privacy pledge in FTC settlement (AP)

AP – Government regulators are sharing some alarming information about Facebook: They believe the online social network has often misled its more than 800 million users about the sanctity of their personal information.

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Justin Timberlake: Stealth Silicon Valley angel? (Reuters)

Reuters – As it turns out, Justin Timberlake’s role as Napster founder Sean Parker in “The Social Network” was a wink and nod to the celebrity’s little publicized role in driving Silicon Valley start-ups.

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Tests show wireless network could harm GPS systems (AP)

AP – New test results show that a proposed nationwide wireless broadband network would produce significant interference with GPS systems used for everything from aviation to high-precision timing networks to consumer navigation devices.

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Street Fighter IV Volt tops iPhone Games of the Week (Appolicious)

Appolicious – Be warned: The title leading off this week’s Best Games list is a quality release, but it’s going to frustrate you. That’s because Street Fighter IV Volt is merely a slight update to Capcom’s high quality fighting game Street Fighter IV due to the addition of online multiplayer. If it sounds like fun, you’re right, it can be – until you take on some eight-year-old with an insane mastery of Ryu’s fireball move and some kind of supernatural ability to anticipate every time you’re even thinking about jumping.

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Reports say FTC investigating Twitter (AP)

AP – Federal regulators are looking into the interactions between Twitter and a company called Ubermedia, which develops applications that help users follow and communicate with each other on Twitter’s popular online messaging service, according to two published reports.

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Facebook hires 2 former Bush aides as lobbyists (AP)

AP – Facebook said Thursday that it hired two aides of former President George W. Bush as lobbyists.

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