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Startups vie to evaluate credit risk using Facebook profiles

Strike at IBM’s China factory falters as hundreds quit jobs

About 1,000 workers had staged a protest outside the factory starting last week

Social Media Getting More Spontaneous and Less Personal

AT&T rolls out pricing plans for in-car 4G broadband

Audi claims to be first automaker to offer 4G in its cars

How to Build a Storage and Backup Strategy for Your Small Business

Red Hat CEO: PaaS is the new application server

In an interview with InfoWorld, CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses Red Hat's ambitions with the cloud and OpenShift

Use of H-1B alternative skyrockets

Number of foreign STEM students in expanded Optional Practice Training program has grown many fold in six years

In potential conflict with FISA court, California court wants NSA phone records kept

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last week disallowed retention of phone records beyond five years

Facebook walks on optical networking’s wild side

The social network is using technologies that others may take years to adopt

Apple ships iOS 7.1 with CarPlay support, home screen crash fix

First major update since September 2013 for the visually-revamped iPhone and iPad OS