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“Those controlling the virus can direct it from a distance,” Mr. Napelian said. “Flame is no ordinary product. This was designed to monitor selected computers.”

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“The reality of it is the market got oversold,” Mr. Pride of Glenmede said.

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For now, RIM’s market share has been plummeting. The company’s piece of the global smartphone industry fell by more than half to 6.4 percent last quarter

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RIM didn't provide specific guidance for the quarter, which ends on June 2.

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“This virus copies what you enter on your keyboard, it monitors what you see on your computer screen,” Mr. Napelian said in a telephone interview.

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In November last year, he was briefly placed under house arrest to prevent him from attending a goodbye party he organized for his million-dollar studio in Shanghai after police ordered it demolished.

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Sina Weibo is looking for more censors.

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“A lot of investors believed the hype,” he said. “In this type of volatile market environment, people are not going to take chances.”

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Instead, virtually everyone who bought Facebook on that first day was making a one-day, get-rich-quick calculation. It didn’t work out. Too bad.

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But like other technologies, including license plate scanners, body cameras and GPS trackers, the gunshot-detection system has also inspired debate.

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“Competition makes the media better.”

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Flame would be the third major Internet weapon to have been discovered since 2010.

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The Obama administration plans to arm Italy's fleet of Reaper drone aircraft, a move that could open the door for sales of advanced hunter-killer drone technology to other allies

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Cyber security experts said the discovery publicly demonstrates what experts privy to classified information have long known: that nations have been using pieces of malicious computer code as weapons to promote their security interests for several years.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

This is how cyberweapons end up promoting peace, social media end up strengthening totalitarianism, and online filters end up improving information discovery.

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It's all wonderfully poetic, an ultimate enjoining of the unfathomable mysteries of the digital world with the even more unfathomable mysteries of the oceans.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

Facebook Inc.'s botched initial public offering left Morgan Stanley investment banker Michael Grimes in an unusual spot: on the defensive.

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‘Slow Motion’ Wreck

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“This ignores a simple and incontrovertible fact: before 2010, there was no real competition, there was only Amazon.”

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Previously only a paper billionaire, he is now a real billionaire.

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On Thursday, Mr. Michel described the reference to illegality as “a very bad joke that shouldn’t have been made” and said it was “just an expression of surprise.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

Today we’re online 3.1 hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 7:30 AM | Add Comment

The underwriters are given the option to buy the overallotment of shares from the company at a discount.

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Verizon Wireless and AT&T serve about 60 percent of U.S. wireless subscribers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. T-Mobile accounts for 9.5 percent, and MetroPCS has 2.7 percent.

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"We're public now, so could you please click on an ad or two while you're there."

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Goldberg cited press reports blaming the delays on New York-based Nasdaq and claiming that as many as 30 million Facebook shares were affected.

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His point was that virtually every week now we see stories like this that hint at a kind of two-tiered market system

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Many newly public companies stumble out of the gate and later become top performers with appealing stocks, a group that includes Amazon.com.

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“It was one of the biggest violations of data protection laws that we had ever seen,” Mr. Caspar recently recalled about that long-sought viewing in late 2010. “We were very angry.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

And Wall Street wonders why individual investors won't return to the stock market...

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Ouch... FINRA?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 6:41 PM | Add Comment

Google is the dominant search engine in the United States and holds even greater sway in Europe, accounting for four of every five searches on the Continent.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

But to many scientists, the practice is an invitation to bad science, secrecy and even potential fraud.

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But what is clear, according to matrimonial law experts, is that whatever Mr. Zuckerberg earned before the marriage is still solely his property afterward.

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It is underpinned by the idea that quants must keep evolving in a market dominated by powerful computers able to mine ever-expanding sources of information.

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Some investors faulted Morgan Stanley and Facebook for overloading the market with too many shares.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 8:31 AM | Add Comment

The most hyped IPO in history is turning into a disaster for Facebook and Wall Street underwriters as Facebook shares have fallen this morning by $4, or 10%, to $34.23, appreciably below the offering price of $38.

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“They’re not out of those positions.”

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“But the critics cannot point to any such guarantees to customers,” he continued, “because Google makes no guarantees.”

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“Venture capital involves luck and skill,” said Steven N. Kaplan, a professor at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 11:59 PM | Add Comment

The Chinese government approved the deal on Saturday, Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick said. "We look forward to closing the deal," she said.

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As these weapons have become more sophisticated, the strategic and ethical questions about them have grown more urgent.

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“If anything, having an understanding of it, I have a keen awareness of the issues, I have a keen awareness of my own privacy,” she said, adding that she planned to watch whether Facebook’s approach to privacy would change as it faced extra pressures to m

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Investors may have really wanted to like Facebook on its first day as a public company, but it appears many have changed their minds.

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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had worked closely on the redesigned phone before his death in October, one person said.

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“In my humble opinion, a consolidated database with standardized input consisting of mechanism of injury and resulting wounds, classified by battle and nonbattle injuries, would be something you could actually use.”

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(9) Krispy Kreme. It's one thing to have a product that everyone loves. It's another thing to make money.

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Mr. Karp later used his share of the proceeds from Urbanbaby.com's sale in 2007 to start a Web consulting firm where Tumblr was initially a side project.

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Facebook could raise north of $18.4 billion if a greenshoe option for underwriters is exercised, making the IPO the second-largest in U.S. history, after that of Visa Inc.

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He professes ignorance about his taxes and refuses to discuss his finances.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/17/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

The two Murdochs then went before Parliament to testify about the affair, denying any coverup by News International or News Corporation

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/16/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Five current Yahoo board members, who had already decided not to stand for re-election, will instead leave immediately.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/14/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Thompson's agreement to leave Yahoo, along with some severance pay, was finalized on Saturday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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In the future, a cellphone user might be walking down the street, talking over Skype, when their handset is shifted from the cellular network to Wi-Fi.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/13/2012 3:30 PM | Add Comment

“Everybody’s doing a little more,” said Mr. Child, who is published by Delacorte Press, part of Random House. “It seems like we’re all running faster to stay in the same place.”

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“At Facebook,” Mr. Tolia says, “it can feel out of place to see advertisements alongside pictures of your vacation or the announcement of your marriage.”

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By most accounts, he has few close friends outside the company.

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In this new criminal age, consumers have a responsibility to check their accounts frequently for signs of tampering and to notify the bank immediately if something seems askew.

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On Thursday, Microsoft introduced a set of changes to Bing that it says will improve searches by tapping into the expertise of friends on Facebook and other social networks.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/12/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Like Mr. Jobs’ black turtleneck, the hoodie is his anti-fashion statement.

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“Your power is your readership,” she said. “It’s not an individual power. It’s a readership power.” And, she said, “every day, the readers can unelect us” by deciding not to buy the paper.

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Last summer, the Times Company sold more than half of its minority stake in the group, which owns the Red Sox and several other sports properties, for $117 million.

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“It’s a loss for the U.S. to have many well-educated people who actually have a great deal of affection for America make that choice,” said Richard Weisman

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Moore’s Law

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European lawmakers on Thursday approved a plan to extend and lower the Continent’s limits on mobile phone roaming charges paid by consumers for another five years

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/11/2012 11:29 AM | Add Comment

If Google were to take control of Android now, it would be difficult for carriers and handset makers to rebel.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/10/2012 5:30 PM | Add Comment

The Facebook network is vital to her, she said. Mr. D’Angelo has become a sounding board for Cove. She has invested her own money in her friend Mr. Morin’s company, Path.

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The committee is tasked with determining how the chief executive’s incorrect credentials survived the board’s vetting process and ended up in official documents and regulatory filings.

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“Other bankers said we were amateurs,” said Ms. Buyer, who worked on Google’s offering. “While Michael may have thought that, he was willing to change his mind.”

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Using that information, the F.T.C. said, third parties could obtain the user’s name and other personal information and use a file placed on the user’s computer to view a history of Web sites the user had visited.

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But many brands stayed away because they said Amazon’s site often looked too commoditized.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/8/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Legal experts said Oracle’s case against Google is one of the rare incidences of cases involving software copyright or patents going to trial. Most such disputes are settled out of court.

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His plans for The New Republic, though, were more pragmatic than idealistic: making it free online, hiring writers and making content more accessible on electronic tablets like the iPad, as well as a coming redesign.

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Later, he spells out it out again. “We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.”

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NEW DELHI—India has launched an antitrust probe of Google Inc.'s online advertising business to investigate potential anticompetitive practices

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The truth is no one forced AT&T to raise prices. AT&T just raised prices because it wanted to.

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And yet I would argue that — at least for Americans — Fox News is Murdoch’s most toxic legacy.

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Though the Pirates are mostly known as a one-issue party advocating Internet freedom, Mr. Höfinghoff explained their online decision-making system, Liquid Feedback.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/6/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

“The court’s decision is on just one of the many motions made by both companies in the process of the lawsuit,” Samsung said today in an e-mailed response to a Bloomberg inquiry.

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Apple products were in more than 40 percent of top movies last year, an advantage as traditional advertising falls flat.

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The researchers also tested people’s stress levels by attaching wearable heart rate monitors and found that their stress levels were much lower when not checking e-mail on a regular basis.

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Admit it, everybody likes a good girlfriend story.

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It is also asking that Yahoo disclose how it vetted its chief executive’s credentials during its search process.

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Called the National Preparedness Report, the assessment is the first of its kind released by the federal agency and was intended to serve as a baseline for preparedness.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/4/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

“The press around Goldman is never going to go down to zero, but the goal is to be less interesting and less attractive as a target.”

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The phone has a 4.8-inch screen — bigger than the iPhone’s 3.5-inch display

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Xbox Live is one of Microsoft’s big successes in the games business.

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"Mr. Chen was released from prison in September 2010 but was kept at home for the next 19 months without being charged with wrongdoing."

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Research into online learning suggests that it is roughly as effective as classroom learning.

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He advised logging off sites like Google and Facebook as soon as practicably possible and not using the same provider for multiple functions if you can help it.

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Much of the debate about Google’s Wi-Fi sniffing veers back and forth between different perceptions of what is appropriate behavior and what isn’t.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 5:29 PM | Add Comment

Once the FT is finally sold, to Thomson Reuters or to somebody else, its subscription price will be able to revert to reality. But it’s not going to come down before then.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 12:15 PM | Add Comment

Privacy regulators in Britain and in France said they would review the F.C.C. report to determine whether further action was called for.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

Representative Joe L. Barton, the Texas Republican who is co-chairman of the House privacy caucus with Mr. Markey, did not respond to requests for comment.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Hybrid Phone-Tablet

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At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer who wrote the code.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

The concerns from Kia and other advertisers underscore the difficulties of measuring results of nascent-forms of social-media advertising.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 12:15 PM | Add Comment

Goldman Sachs may dominate financial markets, but there is one frontier it has not yet conquered: social media.

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"He turned a blind eye and exhibited willful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications." The corporate culture "permeated from the top," it added.

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“I am shocked and disappointed by the culture, media and sport select committee’s allegations that I have misled Parliament and was ‘complicit’ in a cover-up,” Mr. Hinton said

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