Digital Marketer MaxPoint Interactive Files Plans for IPO

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Digital marketing company MaxPoint Interactive, a company founded and led by former eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) executives, has filed paperwork to raise an estimated $75 million in an initial public offering of stock. Morrisville, NC-based MaxPoint’s software analyzes “big data” to develop targeted marketing campaigns that help national retailers boost sales—not online, but at their brick […]

Study: More privacy-violating apps come from the US than Korea, Taiwan, China, and India combined

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A report from Marble Security claims more privacy-invading applications are made in the United States than in Korea, Taiwan, China, and India combined. “It’s a common misconception that the risk of using mobile devices is limited to jailbroken or rooted devices in Asia, and apps that are downloaded from fly-by-night app stores other than the Apple App Store or Google Play,” Marble Security says in the short preamble to its report. “Nothing […]

Silicon Valley’s Biggest Worry Should Be Inequality, Not a Bubble

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Silicon Valley’s economy may be booming, but according to a new report, in recent years, the region has also “lost its spine,” that spine being the middle class. The post Silicon Valley’s Biggest Worry Should Be Inequality, Not a Bubble appeared first on WIRED.

Scareware found hidden in Google Play apps downloaded by millions

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Google has done a good job at keeping data-stealing Trojan apps out of Google Play, but attackers still find ways to monetize rogue apps through the store.Avast Software researchers recently found three apps on Google Play with hidden adware functionality that was designed to activate days after the apps were installed. The rogue applications—a game called Durak, an IQ test and a history app—had been downloaded millions of times.When people first install Durak, it looks and acts like a normal gaming app, Avast researcher Filip Chytry said in a blog post Tuesday.

This is huge: FCC chairman's strong net neutrality proposal turns the Internet into a public utility

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U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler just pulled out the big gun in the net neutrality battle: In an op-ed published on Wired, Wheeler announced a proposal to invoke the agency’s Title II authority, which would allow the FCC to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility, similar to phone service. And he did so in strong, no-nonsense terms:

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