Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice. The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers’ blog Friday, follows an investigation by Facebook into a privacy breach that...
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Start-ups and big companies alike have tried to take on Google by building a better search engine. That they have failed has not stopped brave new entrants. The latest is Blekko, a search engine that will open to the public on Monday. Rich Skrenta, Blekko’s co-founder and chief executive, says that since Google started,...
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