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Samaritans Radar depression app raises Twitter privacy concerns

Samaritans Social networks are powerful tools for data collation. We’ve seen Australia’s Black Dog Institute launch a tool that scans millions of Tweets daily for a real-time global map of our emotions; even a tool that scans for profanity. The major difference between those and a new web app — called Samaritans Radar — launched by UK suicide prevention charity …

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Sprint returns to customer growth amid loss; plans to cut 2,000 jobs

A dizzying array of promotions by Sprint helped slow customer defections, but the company continued to sink into the red. Sprint’s results show that there’s still a lot of work to be done at the company. Lynn La/CNET The Overland Park, Kan., company posted a fiscal second-quarter loss of $765 million, or 19 cents a share, on revenue of $8.5 …

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