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Thursday October 30, 2014

EU's New Competition Chief Could Shake Up Google Antitrust Case

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EU's New Competition Chief Could Shake Up Google Antitrust Case

October 30, 2014 • Nearly 20 companies have filed antitrust complaints against Google in Europe since 2009. Under the new commissioner, the company could face more formal charges and billions of dollars in fines.

EU's New Competition Chief Could Shake Up Google Antitrust Case

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Wednesday October 29, 2014

Behind The Scenes, Storyful Exposes Viral Hoaxes For News Outlets

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Behind The Scenes, Storyful Exposes Viral Hoaxes For News Outlets

October 29, 2014 • Journalists regularly turn to this social media organization to seek out and verify online material that could bolster traditional reporting.

Behind The Scenes, Storyful Exposes Viral Hoaxes For News Outlets

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Sunday October 26, 2014

Pandora Hopes To Lure Musicians Backstage With Analytics

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Pandora Hopes To Lure Musicians Backstage With Analytics

October 26, 2014 • The music streaming company is making a play for artists' goodwill, announcing a new service that gives musicians access to data on who is listening to their music, when and where.

Saturday October 25, 2014

Tech Week: Voice Mail Hang-Ups, Apple Pay And Zuckerberg's Chinese

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Tech Week: Voice Mail Hang-Ups, Apple Pay And Zuckerberg's Chinese

October 25, 2014 • In this week's roundup, Apple rolls out its mobile payment system but confronts a security test in China, the problem with voice mail messages and Mark Zuckerberg shows off his Mandarin.

Monday October 20, 2014

Tunisia's Emerging Tech Sector Hampered By Old Policies

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Tunisia's Emerging Tech Sector Hampered By Old Policies

October 20, 2014 • When Tunisia's young people protested in 2011, they had one key demand: jobs. Now, despite new political leadership, that demand remains unmet — even in tech, the sector that offers the most promise.

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Saturday October 18, 2014

Tech Week: Egg Freezing, Gamergate And Online Giving

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Tech Week: Egg Freezing, Gamergate And Online Giving

October 18, 2014 • Debates about the role of women in the technology workforce and in gaming are swirling over two notable stories this week.

Friday October 17, 2014

Silicon Valley Companies Add New Benefit For Women: Egg-Freezing

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Silicon Valley Companies Add New Benefit For Women: Egg-Freezing

October 17, 2014 • The addition of the benefit by Facebook and Apple comes as tech companies face mounting pressure to hire more women, but some warn it may increase pressure those employees feel to put off having kids.

Silicon Valley Companies Add New Benefit For Women: Egg-Freezing

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Saturday October 11, 2014

Tech Week: Women's Raises, Screen Time And Super-Locked Phones

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Tech Week: Women's Raises, Screen Time And Super-Locked Phones

October 11, 2014 • Controversial remarks about women not needing to ask for raises, how people in tech often limit their kids' screen time and a heated debate over smartphone encryption topped our tech coverage.

Monday October 6, 2014

How The Cold War And George Orwell Helped Make The Internet What It Is

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How The Cold War And George Orwell Helped Make The Internet What It Is

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October 6, 2014 • In The Innovators, Walter Isaacson explains that Pentagon officials wanted a system the Russians couldn't attack, and 1984 made the public wary of new technology's Big Brother potential.

How The Cold War And George Orwell Helped Make The Internet What It Is

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Hewlett-Packard Will Split Into Two Companies

Meg Whitman, the current president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, will lead one of the two companies the tech giant is creating by dividing its corporate services and printing/PC units. Richard Drew/AP hide caption

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Hewlett-Packard Will Split Into Two Companies

October 6, 2014 • The ailing company that was founded 75 years ago has laid off more than 40,000 workers in recent years. Mergers that were meant to help it compete have not panned out.

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The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech

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The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech

October 6, 2014 • The Innovators, Walter Isaacson's new book, tells the stories of the people who created modern computers. Women, who are now a minority in computer science, played an outsize role in that history.

The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech

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Saturday October 4, 2014

Tech Week: Who's Offline, How Hong Kong Connects, How Google Works

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Tech Week: Who's Offline, How Hong Kong Connects, How Google Works

October 4, 2014 • Also in this week's tech roundup, America's biggest bank says 76 million households were affected by its summer hack.

Tuesday September 30, 2014

EBay Spins Off PayPal Into Fast-Changing World Of Mobile Payments

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EBay Spins Off PayPal Into Fast-Changing World Of Mobile Payments

September 30, 2014 • Commerce and payments are splitting up. Ebay is breaking away from PayPal and its payments operation will turn into a separate, publicly traded company.

EBay Spins Off PayPal Into Fast-Changing World Of Mobile Payments

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Saturday September 27, 2014

Tech Week That Was: Apple's Gaffes, Shellshock And Hello Ello

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Tech Week That Was: Apple's Gaffes, Shellshock And Hello Ello

September 27, 2014 • Apple's very bad week with bending phones and iOS flaws, a new bug that's so nasty it has two names and the social network of the moment lead our look back at the top tech headlines.

Saturday September 20, 2014

Tech Week: Smartphone Privacy, Cyberstalking, Alibaba's Big Debut

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Tech Week: Smartphone Privacy, Cyberstalking, Alibaba's Big Debut

September 20, 2014 • Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba makes the biggest debut on the NYSE ever. The details, and the other tech stories that piqued our interest, are in this week's roundup.