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Tweet Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley’s sex life from its search results index, Britain’s Leveson Inquiry on press standards has heard. But the internet giant said it dealt with requests for material to be excluded on a country-by-country basis, meaning articles and videos might remain [&hellip
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Tweet Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis. The additional flexibility is likely to raise fears that the short-messaging company’s commitment to free speech may be weakening. It comes as it expands into new countries in an attempt to broaden its audience and make more money. But Twitter [&hellip
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Tweet Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find. Timeline is essentially a scrapbook of the user’s whole life, compared with a snapshot of today found on Facebook’s traditional profile page. Once activated, Timeline replaces [&hellip
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Tweet A McDonald’s Twitter promotion backfired after customers hijacked the hash-tag #McDStories, using it to share horror stories instead. The fast food giant launched the 24-hour promotional campaign last week to promote its use of fresh produce, inserting paid-for tweets into the streams of Twitter users. But things went wrong after the corporation changed its [&hellip
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Tweet Price-conscious consumers do more online research, download coupons and compare prices in-store via smartphones Despite some bright spots on the economic horizon, shopping remains more of a battle than a pleasure for financially skittish consumers. Some of them cope by using digital tactics to help save money. A SymphonyIRI Group MarketPulse survey on how [&hellip