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	Trade group: Firefox's cookie limits would hurt small businesses The IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) is taking Mozilla to task for experimenting with how Firefox accepts third-party cookies, warning that without third-party cookies, the Internet could become a "vast wasteland of irrelevant and repetitive ads" and "thousands of small businesses ... will be forced to close their doors." Read More WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Corporation Intelligent Systems Help Drive Customer Loyalty Intelligent systems are having a dramatic impact on customer service for retailers and those in the hospitality industry. The key to success is the ability to integrate multiple devices and disparate backend systems. Read Now. In this Issue Facebook quickly fixes privacy leak in new timeline, group says 500K users flee dead-RSS-walking Google Reader for Feedly Apple CEO Tim Cook's approval rating drops Lenovo redesigns ThinkPad, drops weight by a quarter WEBCAST: LogMeIn Top Reasons to Innovate Customer Service It's all about the customer experience, right? Make that experience a peerless one and your company has a distinct competitive advantage. And the key to doing so lies in optimizing interactions with customers at various touch points and by various means. View Now Facebook quickly fixes privacy leak in new timeline, group says Facebook quickly fixed a privacy leak in its new timeline after being alerted to the problem, according to a watchdog that follows the social-networking site closely. Europe v. Facebook, an Austrian student organization that has filed complaints in Europe over Facebook's privacy practices, said it found the redesign allowed "friends of friends" to see all of the events a user attended even if the person's privacy settings only permitted their friends to see the events. Read More 500K users flee dead-RSS-walking Google Reader for Feedly Feedly, a free Web-based RSS service that also offers iOS and Android apps, has added half a million new users since Google announced it would pull the plug on its Reader RSS feed this summer. "More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined the Feedly community over the last 48 hours," the company said in a blog post Friday. "We love passionate readers. Welcome on board." Read More Apple CEO Tim Cook's approval rating drops Apple CEO Tim Cook's approval rating fell in the last 12 months, dropping Steve Jobs' successor to the 18th spot on an annual ranking of American chief executives. Cook received an average approval rating of 93 percent from more than 640 Apple workers on Glassdoor, an online jobs and careers website, between March 2012 and March 2013. That put Cook at No. 18, behind several other technology CEOs such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (No. 1), EMC's Joe Tucci (No. 7), Google's Larry Page (No. 11) and Amazon's Jeff Bezos (No. 16). Read More Lenovo redesigns ThinkPad, drops weight by a quarter Lenovo is updating the design of its ThinkPad laptops to keep them up-to-date in a market where computers are getting thinner and lighter at a fast rate. The ThinkPad's external appearance isn't changing a great deal, but it is getting considerably thinner and lighter. The changes are exemplified in the new ThinkPad T431s, which will go on sale next month for $949 in the U.S. and some other countries. Read More
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