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Instagram, Facebook Deal Sparks Privacy Concerns: Here's How to Quit

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Instagram, Facebook Deal Sparks Privacy Concerns: Here's How to Quit Instagram sold to Facebook for $1 billion, irking longtime users--here's how to gather up your photos and run.
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Microsoft Forms Subsidiary to Engage With Open Source Communities New business unit will address the gap between Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies.
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Mac Malware Flashback Retreats The number of Macs infected with the Flashback botnet has plummeted in the last few days, antivirus vendor Symantec says.
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Android Apps Don't Need Permission to See Your Data Unauthorized apps can access certain types of data without any permissions at all.
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ICANN Postpones Cutoff Date for New GTLD Applications After Glitch Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has postponed the deadline for new generic top-level domains after detecting a technical issue with the software.
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Facebook's Instagram Acquisition: Putting it All into Perspective Big bucks buys through the years don't always turn out the way either party expects. Here are a few famous examples.
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