Facebook, Twitter and Instagram provided feeds of user data to a social-media monitoring program used by police to track racially charged protests in Oakland, Calif., and Baltimore, according to an ACLU report released Tuesday. The monitoring program, created by Chicago-based Geofeedia, often included users’ locations and other personal information that was passed on to 500 …
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Twitter may still be courting buyout interest from one potential suitor. Rumors have been swirling for weeks that Google, Salesforce, Disney and Apple were interested in buying the financially troubled social network. While three of those companies have reportedly already bowed out, a potential deal with Salesforce is still on the table, the New York Times reported Monday. Twitter executives …
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Mobile-payments company Square on Wednesday revealed its plans to go public, putting in motion what should be one of the biggest and most-anticipated tech initial public offerings of the year. The 6-year-old maker of credit-card reading devices was expected to make such a move for months. Reports came out over the summer that the San Francisco-based company filed confidential paperwork …
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