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Facebook tests ‘buy’ button to let users make purchases from their feeds

New York’s proposed Bitcoin rules include consumer protections

Lenovo stops selling small-screen Windows tablets in the US

NetSuite buys Venda to boost e-commerce, European presence

EU privacy watchdogs to quiz Google, Microsoft on ‘right to be forgotten’

Emergency vBulletin patch fixes dangerous SQL injection vulnerability

Highs and lows of CEO pay

A roundup of the tech industry’s biggest earners, over-the-top perks, and most drastic pay cuts.

Microsoft to lay off 18,000 in next year

Microsoft to lay off 18,000 in next year

Vulnerability exposes some Cisco home wireless devices to hacking

Chaos Computer Club bolsters NSA spying complaint with Tor snooping evidence

Juniper boosts DDoS Secure appliance to mitigate UDP-based amplification attacks

DDoS mitigation filters can be applied closer to attack’s source.

Google bug-hunting Project Zero could face software developer troubles

How Google handles conflicts with software vendors will be important to Project Zero's success, experts say

Systems engineer arrested in massive data leak in Japan

SAP raises annual cloud revenue forecast after the business soars in Q2

Microsoft’s Bing follows Google in offering Europeans the ‘right to be forgotten’

The ‘Rickmote’ shows no mercy when it finds someone using Chromecast

Microsoft may announce its biggest layoffs ever on Thursday

Chef cooks ups infrastructure testing tools

Pennsylvania, a ‘Fortune 20’ state, consolidates IT

Thin, light, wire free — Intel’s vision for your next PC

There’s almost a million fake apps targeting your phone

Swedish judge upholds detention order for Assange

Oracle ties its social intelligence apps to LinkedIn

Microsoft’s future under Nadella less about Windows, more about mobile and cloud

Apple-IBM deal threatens Android’s enterprise push

Apple agrees to pay up to $400 million in e-books price-fixing case

SSL Blacklist project exposes certificates used by malware

Why the Microsoft Active Directory design flaw isn’t serious

Security experts say the right precautions would mitigate the threat posed by an attacker

IBM and Apple ties go way back

Open user group specs out SDN expectations

ONUG also forms use case working groups for WANs, overlays and services virtualization.

Dead in Japan? Yahoo Ending has all you need

Fujitsu designs leaner supercomputer with fewer switches

Mozilla’s JPEG compression slims down file sizes

NetApp Private Storage adds an Azure cloud option

Why the Apple-IBM deal matters

Intel’s Haswell coming to Xeon E5 chips this quarter

Apple-IBM partnership is a direct challenge to Microsoft

Goals of supporting enterprise apps on mobile devices overlap, with no clear favorite

Google nixes real-name policy for Google+

Intel keeps Skylake PC processors on schedule for next year

Microsoft rumored to be buying security firm that publicized Active Directory exploit

Apple, IBM join to make iOS the default mobile platform

What Apple and IBM have in common: enterprise mobility

Yahoo revenue drops as ad business flounders

Bank of America illegally copied $300 million in software, alleges Tibco lawsuit

Employers use customized bonus plans to attract developers, survey says

U.S. malware share rising, Amazon service No.1 in hosting it

Solutionary’s Top 10 list also includes Google and Akamai.

HP chairman resigns due to ill health

It’s alive: New supercomputer reborn from old supercomputer parts

Older system rides again at Carnegie Mellon University.

US House approves permanent ban on Internet access taxes

Intel to ship Galileo Gen2 open-source computer in August for $60