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Yahoo reveals it faced $250,000 per day fines from the US for opposing surveillance request

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by on September 11, 2014 at 11:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Yahoo today celebrated the publication of previously classified documents from its legal battle with the US government over expanded data requests. As part of the release, the company revealed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court threatened a $250,000 per day fine for refusing to provide customer data. The battle between Yahoo and the state occurred in 2007 and 2008, but the company filed last year to have the records unsealed after the Snowden leak implicated tech companies in the NSA’s surveillance apparatus. If you’ve got some reading time on your hands, Yahoo says there are more than 1,500 pages from…

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Yahoo sued for allegedly using corrupt judge to help reduce $2.7B judgment in Mexico

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by on September 11, 2014 at 10:20 pm
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Yahoo and its law firm are the target of a lawsuit brought by two Mexican companies that claim the company used a judge to “intimidate” an appellate judge into reducing $2.7 billion in damages to $172,500, according to Reuters. Worldwide Directories and Ideas Interactivas sued Yahoo for breach of contract after a search partnership broke apart. The pair initially won a $2.7 billion ruling in 2012, but an appeals court reduced the award last May to a fraction of the original. It seems extremely out of character for a multinational tech company to resort to corruption and threats to resolve its…

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Amazon is killing off its free P2P money-transfer service WebPay on October 13, 2014

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by on September 11, 2014 at 8:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Amazon WebPay, a free online money-transfer service, is shutting down October 13, 2014. This means you’ll no longer be able to send, receive, or request money using just your email address and the Amazon Payments webpage. There were hints back in June that the service would be going away soon. Amazon sent out an email this week to active Amazon Payments account users notifying them it is pulling the switch. The company also said it had updated its user agreement to note “the elimination of person-to-person payments.” Users thus have more than a four weeks to read the new terms…

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Iconfinder launches subscription pro plan for designers

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by on September 11, 2014 at 8:17 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Launches

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Icons form the backbone of interface design — for products and apps as well as for the Web. 500 Startups-backed Iconfinder offers designers a way to search for just the right high-quality icons for their projects. Today, those users can choose a new way of doing business — a subscription plan. With the launch of subscription-based Iconfinder Pro, freelancers, agencies and design teams can now ditch receipts, license management issues and swapping credit cards for one of four subscription levels. Previously, only credit card payments were available. Iconfinder Pro is targeted to professional design teams who work on multiple projects involving numerous iterations and prototyping. The subscription…

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Emotion vs. Data-driven marketing: The biggest challenges

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by on September 11, 2014 at 7:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Social Media

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Lauren deLisa Coleman is a digi-culture trend analyst specializing in the convergence of popular culture, emerging tech and the impact on business and governance. This post originally appeared on the Geckoboard blog. For a job title that barely existed three years ago, the role of a data scientist and the data-driven strategies they develop have become crucial tools for today’s marketing executives. In fact, according to a recent study by KPMG, more that half of the CFOs and CIOs polled said that big data was drastically changing their business strategies. We’re swimming in a sea full of data. The key is…

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