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Microsoft explains how LinkedIn will integrate with Office and other products
In announcing its $ 26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn today, Microsoft laid out several scenarios for how the companies’ products might work together.
- LinkedIn profiles, containing a person’s resume, skills and endorsements and recommendations from colleagues, will be visible not just in LinkedIn but also in Microsoft’s...
‘Internet Trends’ guru Mary Meeker explains how she uncovers what’s really happening in technology
Mary Meeker is not a fortune teller. But it’s worth listening...
Valve explains: DDoS-induced caching problem led to Xmas Day Steam data leaks and downtime
PC gamers were dismayed on Christmas Day to find that Valve's popular (and arguably essential) Steam store had gone haywire before becoming entirely inaccessible. Logged-in users were seeing account data that didn't belong to them, with partial credit card numbers, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, billing addresses, and purchase histories all visible. This happened for a period of about an hour and a half, from...
Elon Musk explains why a carbon tax is as necessary as garbage collection fees
Policymakers have been debating – and dismissing – the idea of putting a tax on carbon emissions for more than a decade, but the way billionaire innovator Elon Musk...