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What is ACTA? Why Should You Care? (Mashable)

Mashable – The technology community came out in force against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) before those two bills were shelved last week. With them gone, we can expect tech experts and Internet users to step away from politics. The battle has been won, right

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College Sports League to Stream Its Own Content Online (Mashable)

Mashable – With television broadcast deals that reach into the billions of dollars, the delivery of college sports as entertainment has long been huge business. Now the Pacific-12 Conference is aiming to create what would likely be college sports’ largest and most futuristic mode of digital distribution yet — a wholly league-owned and operated platform for streaming content to tablets, smartphones, computers and smart TVs around the world.

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Report: Google Treading Into Amazon’s E-Commerce Waters (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor – Never content to rest on its search-engine dominance alone, Google is reportedly moving into yet another industry giant’s space. This time, it’s Amazon that may have to look over its shoulder.

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Stealthy cellphone software stirs outcry (AP)

AP – Technology bloggers are asking if our cellphones are spying on us after a security researcher said a piece of software hidden on millions of phones was recording virtually everything people do with them.

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Yahoo shuts down The Projector and The Set blogs (Reuters)

Reuters – Yahoo is letting The Projector and The Set flicker out and die, the movie and television blogs acknowledged on Twitter Friday.

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Crowdsourced Contest Platform Now Looking To ID Problems, Not Just Solve Them (Mashable)

Mashable – After powering problem-solving challenges for clients like the U.S. federal government, the city of New York, Michelle Obama, Samsung and the World Bank, ChallengePost has raised $4.1 million to develop a new type of platform — one that not only solves problems, but helps point them out

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Ex-IMF chief’s wife ‘touched’ by blog messages (AFP)

AFP – Anne Sinclair, the wife of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said Monday she was “touched” by many messages of support, but was closing down her blog for the time being.

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Google, Skype, Yahoo Targeted by Rogue Comodo SSL Certificates (PC World)

PC World – Comodo’s tag line is “creating trust online”. That may be true most of the time, but after an attack resulted in nine fraudulent SSL certificates–targeting domains like Google, Yahoo, Skype, and Windows Live–it might be wise to trust Comodo a little less.

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Skype names new chief financial officer (Reuters)

Reuters – Internet telephone service Skype said it named Jonathan Chadwick, a former McAfee financial executive, as its chief financial officer.

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With rewards, Zynga hopes to get you (more) hooked (AP)

AP – Beware, if you’re among the hordes who wonder where the time went after becoming absorbed in online games such as “FarmVille” and “CityVille.” Zynga, the hot Internet startup that created those ever-engrossing pastimes, is introducing another reason to goof off.

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