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                    [Title] => Facebook again tries to simplify privacy policy
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One more time, Facebook is trying to simplify its lengthy privacy policy — and make it much shorter — to explain how it targets advertisements to its 1.35 billion users.

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Google has agreed to pay full refunds totaling at least $19 million to consumers who were charged for purchases that children made via apps without parental consent from the Google Play app store.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-05 02:16:44 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1483994 [AuthorName] => Mae Anderson [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1341595 [Title] => FTC: T-Mobile made millions in bogus charges [Summary] =>

T-Mobile USA knowingly made hundreds of millions off its customers in bogus charges, a federal regulator alleged yesterday in a complaint likely to damage the reputation of a household name in wireless communications.

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Nicholas Simmons disappeared from his parents' house in a small upstate New York town on New Year's Day, leaving behind his wallet, cellphone and everything else.

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Philippine suppliers and exporters to the United States may be charged with "unfair competition" once discovered using pirated software, an intellectual property firm said Wednesday.

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One of the leading U.S. civil-rights organizations is taking on an unusual cause: spotty smartphone updates.

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Relieved your kids aren't posting embarrassing messages and goofy self-portraits on Facebook? They're probably doing it on Instagram and Snapchat instead.

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What was the biggest complaint about Facebook's iPhone app? Users called it slow.

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Five large drug and grocery chains are suing Pfizer Inc. and a second drugmaker, alleging they conspired to delay sales of cheap generic versions of the blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor.

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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has submitted a proposal to European regulators in Brussels aimed at avoiding a showdown on the some of the Internet search leader's business practices.

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