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Snapchat to Facebook: $3 billion isn’t cool. You know what’s cool?

Walking away from $3 billion -- or maybe $4 billion, says the grapevine. Surely, the dot-com bubble must burst now. Right?

The best data security offense is a good defense

Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare establishes a security risk framework that rationalizes 4,000 regulations into 350 integrated requirements

FCC chair: UNLOCK all phones! — GOOGLE Books upheld as fair use — COIN, the all-in-one credit card — SNAPCHAT rumored to snub Google’s $4 billion

Google fixes Chrome vulnerabilities exploited at Pwn2Own hacking contest

New versions of Chrome for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android patch a full sandbox escape vulnerability

Amazon hints at details on its CIA Franken-cloud

Amazon will use AWS architecture to build and manage a private cloud that will sit in a CIA data center

New Microsoft license agreement could drive up costs

New Server and Cloud Enrollment program streamlines options, but some enterprises may pay as much as 40 percent more for critical offerings

Microsoft to fix Windows XP update SVCHOST redline issue ‘soon’

Microsoft has identified why using Windows Update to install patches on Windows XP may lock up users' machines for hours on end

An Apple television doesn’t make sense, but Apple TV does

Forget iTV -- Apple has already deconstructed traditional media hardware/content flow and freed up content consumption

Amazon, Microsoft, Pivotal, and Verizon bulk up in the cloud

Amazon WorkSpaces, Microsoft's Visual Studio Online, and two Cloud Foundry deals headline the week's cloud announcements

BlackBerry Messenger now available for the iPad and iPod

The smartphone maker's app comes to a wider range of devices outside of BlackBerry