In a ruling released yesterday, Justice Helen Winkelmann of the High Court of New Zealand has ordered the FBI to begin copying over 150TB of data from the computers seized from Kim Dotcom earlier this year as evidence for the DOJ's case against Megaupload. The ruling comes as a preemptive...
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After eight years as CEO and founder of Woot, a daily deal website, Matt Rutledge has announced today that he is leaving both Woot and Amazon so that he can "move on to future projects." Amazon acquired Woot two years ago for $110 million, and...
YouTube has updated its Google+ app so that groups of friends can create video playlists together while hanging out on the social network. The app now lets anyone in a Hangout add videos to a playlist, as well as remove them or change the order that they're set to play in. And once you have a playlist you and your friends are happy with, you can save it for future YouTube parties or share it...
Last week Reddit announced that it would begin banning links from certain domains for misuse of the service, and today debuted a new subreddit called r/BannedDomains that currently lists The Atlantic, Phys.org, Businessweek, and ScienceDaily among others. According to Reddit general manager Erik Martin, the bans will be temporary, serving as a warning for terms of service violations.
The bans are being doled out to sites deemed "spammy, malicious, or involved in cheating shenanigans" and users that submit a link to any of the listed sites receive an error explaining why the domain was banned. All but one of the sites currently listed return the message "this domain has been banned for spamming and/or cheating." Although spamming is considered a "gray area" in the site's FAQ, Reddit says accounts that primarily use the service to...
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Microsoft has announced a new partnership with Yelp that will help add some local flavor to Bing search results. The new feature kicked off yesterday, and it integrates Yelp data such as reviews, photos, and business details into Bing search results, as well as additional information when you...
With a line of extremely successful e-readers and a gigantic user base, Amazon and its Kindle Direct Publishing service seem like a no-brainer for independent authors. But Andrew Hyde tracked the performance of his recently released title, This...
Hot on the heels of Facebook's IPO, it looks like the company will be losing its chief technology officer, Bret Taylor. All Things D is reporting that Taylor is planning to depart Facebook later this summer, and will be joining an unnamed start-up instead. "I had always been...
