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Facebook to start rolling out updated privacy settings to U.S. users
Originally posted on Gigaom: Facebook(s fb) will begin rolling out several of the privacy settings it announced Dec. 12 to its users in the United States beginning Thursday night, the company announced in a blog post. The privacy updates announced last week will remove a user’s ability to hide their name from search results, but… →
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To stream everywhere, Netflix encodes each movie 120 times
Originally posted on Gigaom: Xboxes, (s MSFT) iPads, (s AAPL) connected TVs: Netflix (s NFLX) streams to a lot of different devices. More than 900, to be precise. And many of them have different screen sizes, bitrate requirements and codec support. That’s why Netflix is doing a whole lot of encoding: Each and every movie… →
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Twitter updates promoted tweets, allows more restricted targeting
Originally posted on Gigaom: Twitter announced several updates to its promoted tweets feature on Thursday, allowing brands and marketers to improve the accuracy of their targeting and to make promoted tweets more relevant in searches. Twitter started experimenting with promoted tweets back in 2010, and they will be a crucial product in the company’s focus on… →