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Vidyo Offers Google+ Hangouts Voice and Video Conferencing Interoperability

VidyoH2O for Google+ Hangouts Connects to H.323 and SIP Conferencing Solutions

The Art of Writing in the Age of Algorithms

Staff at recruitment tool firm Distill join Yahoo

The Distill interview platform will not be available to customers after March 30

Facebook offers more ways to express gender beyond ‘male’ and ‘female’

New options include 'Trans,' 'Genderqueer' and 'Androgynous'

Is Microsoft rethinking its decision to build Office for iPad?

Comments from the company's marketing chief suggest Microsoft may be having second thoughts

Microsoft zaps Skype IM bugs

Users experienced IM sync problems across devices running Skype

Privacy, consumer groups ask court to reject Facebook ads settlement

Opponents of the 2013 settlement say it doesn't do enough to protect teens

Slack exits beta with its tool for information overload

The service pulls in and archives content from a range of outside sources

Twitter tests Facebook-like profile page redesign

Company has said it continually experiments; no comment on this one

Mozilla searches for more revenue, taps in-Firefox ads

Now dependent on Google for 88% of its revenue, browser maker will test ads out on new users