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• 15 April 2013

• News: Facebook affirms its privacy commitment with national campaign

  Facebook is teaming up with the nation's attorneys general to launch a public awareness campaign aimed at keeping young people safer on the site.

• News: Facebook, state attorneys general team up for teen privacy PSAs

  Although Facebook and government agencies don't always see eye to eye, several state attorneys general are teaming up with the social network on new privacy education resources.

• News: Twitter set to launch music service via web and app

  Twitter is set to launch its own music service.

• 14 April 2013

• News: Rockmelt shifts focus, tests a PC interface to the digital life

  Despite predictions that the PC is on a path toward extinction, the folks at Rockmelt, makers of a "social browser" of the same name, are betting those forecasts are overblown.

• 12 April 2013

• News: Uber to take on Lyft, Sidecar with ridesharing service

  Lyft and Sidecar may be the kings of ridesharing right now, but Uber is coming up in the rearview mirror.

• News: Facebook Home goes live in Google Play

  Facebook Home, which doesnt replace the Android OS but sits on top of it, includes a family of Facebook-focused apps and also works with the apps a user already has on her phone.

• News: Twitter-branded music site indicates app is on the way

  Tweets may soon have beats. Twitter appears to be readying its own music application designed to let users discover new artists and songs based on trending activity on the site.

• News: Twitter readies launch of music service

  Several signs are pointing to Twitter launching a new music app, and speculation has the company unveiling it Friday.

• News: Twitter's new music service: What we know so far

  As if Grooveshark, Nokia Music+, Pandora, Rhapsody, Spotify, MOG, Slacker, and Xbox Music weren't enough, Twitter looks set to get into the music streaming game as soon as this weekend. Yep, you read that right--Twitter.

• News: Twitter buys Brisbane music startup

  Twitter has acquired Brisbane music startup We Are Hunted, the startup confirmed.

• News: Google lets users plan their digital afterlife

  Our online lives have become so important that Google just released a feature that enables users to control what happens to their data after they die.

• 11 April 2013

• News: Twitter brings trending topics to 160 new locations

  Twitter, in an effort to make its site more useful to an ever-increasing number of people, is rolling out its Trends topic discovery feature in 160 new locations.

• News: Facebook Apps are significant threat log contributor

  Facebook Apps were the most significant threat log contributor, according to the latest edition of Application Usage and Threat Report by Palo Alto Networks.

• News: LinkedIn to buy Pulse, maker of mobile news reader app

  LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking site, continues to beef up its content publishing platform with its agreement to acquire Pulse, which makes a mobile news aggregation, reader and content distribution application.

• News: 5 New LinkedIn Tips for Power Users

  Have you kept up with LinkedIn's latest features? To help you zero in on the most significant enhancements and maximize your social networking success, here's a rundown of the latest changes and updates.

• News: Twitter OAuth feature can be abused to hijack accounts, researcher says

  A feature in the Twitter API (application programming interface) can be abused by attackers to launch credible social engineering attacks that would give them a high chance of hijacking user accounts, a mobile application developer revealed Wednesday at the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam.

• News: Targeted social media attacks said to be underreported

  The latest targeted attack, on Chinese activists, shows how cybercriminals are broadening their tactics in going after individuals

• News: Twitter bots, fake retweets rake in big bucks

  Some Twitter users love bots--those fake, computer-generated Twitter users that boost your follower count. They're usually pretty harmless, retweet you, and make your numbers look better to the outside world than they actually are.

• 10 April 2013

• News: How to Turn Off LinkedIn Endorsements

  If your connections are endorsing you for skills you dont want to be known for (or dont have), removing the feature from your LinkedIn profile is easy. Here's how to do it.

• News: Study: Twitter users hate being home (or at least are way happier being away)

  You know what's horrible? Being at home. At least that is the general sentiment among Twitter users, whose level of happiness was shown to increase exponentially when they were far away from home.

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