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| 50 Million LivingSocial Accounts Compromised After Hack | | Friday, April 26, 2013 4:36 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Add this to LivingSocial's growing list of woes: The money-losing daily deals site admitted Friday that it has been the victim of a cyber attack. A LivingSocial spokesperson said the company has begun reaching out to the more than 50 million customers whose data may have been compromised. Leaked data includes names, e-mail addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords.
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| Report: Smartphone Shipments Overtake Feature Phones for First Time | | Friday, April 26, 2013 1:26 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| It was only a matter of time. Smartphone shipments overtook feature phone shipments worldwide in the first quarter of this year for the first time ever, according to a new report from IDC. There were 418.6 million mobile phones shipped worldwide in the March quarter, according to IDC, 216.2 million of which were smartphones. This marked the first time that smartphones represented more than half the market.
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| Cost Per Like: A Subjective Valuation of Your Facebook Fans | | Friday, April 26, 2013 12:10 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| "Cost per Like" often crops up in conversations about Facebook advertising, though it isn't a term officially sanctioned by Facebook. So what exactly does it mean? Cost per Like refers to the cost of acquiring a new fan for a Facebook page, either through paid advertisements or, less directly, through earned media efforts. There are three ways to "buy" Likes on Facebook.
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| Wavii Confirms Google Acquisition | | Friday, April 26, 2013 11:47 AM | Lauren Indvik |
| One month after Yahoo made headlines by announcing its acquisition of Summly, a startup that uses algorithms and natural-language processing to serve short summaries of articles, Google has snatched up Wavii, a Seattle-based startup that also gathers and processes online data into summarized bits.
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| Amazon's Earnings and Other News You Need to Know | | Friday, April 26, 2013 9:43 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Amazon announced its first quarter earnings Thursday. The company reported $16.07 billion in revenue and earned .18 per share. Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference sold out again this year — this time, in just two minutes.
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