Snapchat should be shut down.

 This app should be shut down. It is a good site for pepolpe, person who can take personal information and pic and publish them over the internet for everyone to see. Also cyber bulling can go on without no one knows and it is hard to catch them. Until they can get control of it shut it down. 

Snapchat did not respond to an interview request from CNN. But in one of only a handful of interviews he's given since launching, Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel told TechCrunch he thinks the sex talk about his app is overblown.
 "I'm not convinced that the whole sexting thing is as big as the media makes it out to be," he told TechCrunch. "I just don't know people who do that. It doesn't seem that fun when you can have real sex."








http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/03/tech/mobile/snapchat/

Who Will Win the War Between the 5 Biggest Tech Stocks?

 It's incredible to think just how much of our digital and technological lives are almost entirely shaped and molded by just a handful of companies. Combined, these companies define how we access and experience the Internet, where we get our content and information (and how much we pay), how we manage the digital aspects of our everyday routines, and how we connect and interact with friends and family all over the world.

 This article consist of the 5 biggest tech stocks. They are Apple, Microsoft, Google Chrome, Facebook and Amazon. Each is trying to get users to use its products. Apple, Microsoft, and Google Chrome has operating system. Facebook and Amazon is secondary to the 3 big name company.

This is a great website to go to. I is free for one and it does make sense what they are saying.



http://www.fool.com/free-report/stock-advisor/5-biggest-tech-stocks/page1?email=expogirl11@yahoo.com&iid=39114320&repeatecap=&vsaid=5408&src=isaeditxt0900024

Everyone scrre up

 

U.S. investigators have uncovered evidence the federal contractor that did a background check on Edward Snowden falsified its work dating to 2008, according to two people familiar with the situation.
The company, USIS, told the government it had completed primary and secondary background investigations between 2008 and 2011 when evidence suggests otherwise, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak about the investigation. The Washington Post reported the findings yesterday.

 The company conducted at least one review of Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who this month exposed U.S. classified programs to collect phone records of Americans and monitor Internet communications of suspected foreign terrorists. 

I believe they drop the ball as the saying goes. The article state someone screw up and did not do a background check properly. Some how either Snowden found a way to get around the proper background check or he had help.. But anyway you  look at it. The USIS was at fault as was he company who hired him. I believe that Snowden had help also by Wiklink.







http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-28/probe-of-contractor-vetting-snowden-sees-falsified-data.html?cmpid=yhoo

Will Cisco Have to Pay for NSA’s Sins in China?

 Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is coming under fire in China due to fears about the possible involvement of the National Security Agency in the company’s Chinese networks.

 The Chinese government believes that Cisco’s equipment represents a national security risk due to the possibility of NSA spying. Cisco has denied that any of its networks in China or the U.S. were under NSA surveillance. State-run media in the country has accused Cisco of helping the NSA collect information on Chinese citizens’ internet activity, and is urging a switch to domestic equipment made by Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp (ZTCOF.PK).

 Summary I believe since Snowden left the country with classify information, China and other countries are parnoid and don't trust any companies who is in the US or over in their country any more.

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/will-cisco-have-to-pay-for-nsas-sins-in-china.html/?ref=YF

Private Clouds

 The article is about Private and public Clouds. The three companies it talks about is Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. 


According to a report published by Reuters with regard to the recently concluded Global Technology Summit, data mining and security is, once again, in the spotlight. This comes after it was revealed that the NSA secretly gathers user data from nine major U.S. companies including Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. Furthermore, the NSA not only forced these companies into the Prism Spying Program, but also barred them from disclosing this fact, which humbled their reputations. This casts a huge cloud on the question of integrity, considering that two years ago, Google pulled out of China following reports that the Chinese government hacked into some of the search engine giant’s Gmail accounts.

 The NSA's data monitoring activity has definitely cast doubt over the integrity of these three companies, along with others like AOL, and Yahoo!. However, the overall impact on revenue is likely to be insignificant considering that the companies have diversified portfolios, bar Facebook, which largely relies on ad revenue. Google is already getting into the smartphones and tablets business and, therefore, can easily hedge that risk, while Microsoft’s ad revenue has had little impact on overall income. The probable shift to private cloud computing is also likely to be limited due to the high costs involved in setting such a platform.





http://beta.fool.com/nmaithya/2013/06/22/private-clouds-google-microsoft-and-facebook-need/37951/?source=eogyholnk0000001

Three big tech companies

Silicon valley Motherships What the new Designs Mean No longer satisfied with hiding in standard-issue tech-company hives, Apple, Facebook, and Google have embraced Architecture with a capital A. All three tech giants are building expensive, ambitious structures to expand their corporate headquarters. Designed, respectively, by Foster + Partners, Frank Gehry, and NBBJ, the new HQs will make their corporate identities literally concrete. But more interesting, the complexes suggest a shift in Silicon Valley culture away from the collegiate “campus,” beloved for its informality and appeal to young geniuses, and toward architectural monuments to zillion-dollar enterprises. Should they shut off the campus to potential geniuses? http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/al_techplex/

Information release

Should Microsoft, Google, twitter, Facebook and other social outlets give up information about foreign survance? The asked the government if they can release information about foreign country. If it was for the US state citizens (legal) they shouldn't give out that information. That is stepping on the private citizen right for privacy, unless they have good cause to do so. US citizen who has ties with terrorist should be investigated, who knows what they have plan for the US. Look at Ft Hood incident. http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/tech-companies-turn-over-user-information-government?akid=10586.1089233.7v7dqj&rd=1&src=newsletter857033&t=7