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Yahoo security breach affects Yahoo Voices contributors
If you’re a contributor to Yahoo Voices, which lets people submit content and get paid based on readership, change your password now. Log-ins have been hacked, but you can check here to see if you're affected.
Attorneys General Press Craigslist to Dump Adult Services
San Francisco - A group of seventeen state attorneys general has written an
open letter to Craigslist, asking the company to remove its adult services
section,...
DEW Startup Competition Entry Deadline – Jan. 1, 2017
Hey Everyone, To all of you involved in digital entertainment startups, the entry deadline for the 2017 Digital Entertainment World Startup Competition is this...
Cell phone vigilante prompts FCC warning
News reports about a passenger using a hand-held device to block cell phones on a bus captured the public’s imagination and prompted a warning from the FCC that using or importing jammers is illegal.
Transmedia Producers – Conducting Symphonies of Narratives
We hosted the second in a series of exclusive Transmedia workshops last week in Washington D.C. with Starlight Runner’s Jeff Gomez. This time I...
Facebook Declines Congressional Privacy Caucus Invitation
Facebook declined an invitation to explain how it protects the online privacy of children and teens to the Bi-Partisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, and co-chairmen Congressmen Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), have made public their disappointment.
Reports: Facebook Acquires Former Litigant WhoGlue
Two years after suing Facebook for patent infringement, Baltimore-based WhoGlue, a small developer of software for membership organizations, has now been acquired by the social networking giant, according to multiple reports. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Admins of U.K. BitTorrent Site Filesoup Face Copyright Charges
Los Angeles - Two administrators of veteran U.K.-based
BitTorrent file-sharing site Filesoup have been charged with conspiracy to
infringe copyright, TorrentFreak reports.
Local authorities, along with...
Liberty Media Files Copyright Suit Against File Host Hotfile, Users
*A correction was made to this story.
Los Angeles - Liberty Media has filed a copyright
infringement lawsuit against online file-storage service Hotfile, in addition
to...
Aereo TV service gets the lawsuits it expected [with document]
Aereo, the television service backed in part by board member Barry Diller’s IAC, has had its legality challenged in two separate legal filings in the U.S. District Court.