Breaking U.S. Sues to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger AT&T's plans to acquire T-Mobile recieved a setback today when the U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust complaint requesting that the deal be blocked, Bloomberg reported. The controversial plan, which was announced in March, would result in AT&T paying $39 billion to acquire T-Mobile from its parent company Deutsche Telekom. AT&T touted… Mobile John Paul Titlow View comments
Facebook Facebook To Roll Out News Feed Filtering? The news feed has become the de facto primary interface for social media sites. Over the last several years Facebook has been tweaking how the news feed surfaces content, with a couple major changes within the last several months. The trick is to be able to present relevant content near the top of the feed while still holding to a semblance of… Social Dan Rowinski View comments
Analysis SSL Certificates: What's Left to Trust? Tuesday morning, Chicago-based authentication services provider Vasco Data Security announced its DigiNotar subsidiary, which issues certificates for SSL used to secure financial and other discrete transactions online, detected a security breach that forced it to issue improper certificates. One of those certificates, it admitted, was for… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments
Apple Apple Kills Financial Times iOS Apps Apple's new subscription rules requiring publishers to fork over 30% of revenue generated from apps in the iTunes Store have claimed their biggest victim to date. As of last night, the iPhone and iPad apps for the Financial Times went missing from the App Store. The new rules have not thrilled publishers, but reactions have been mixed. Some… Mobile John Paul Titlow View comments
News Pardot Makes B2B Marketing More Social If you want something more capable than Hootsuite to handle your social media marketing, then you might want to take a closer look at what Pardot's Marketing Automation service provides. The marketing automation platform has gotten some new social media features that complement its existing tools for handling CRM integration, email marketing… Enterprise David Strom View comments