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New scam: fake Wells Fargo text message

On Thursday I received the following message on my phone.

The message reads:

WELLS FARGO ALERT: Your CARD starting with 4259 has been DEACTIVATED. Please call 650-443-5306.

That was immediately suspicious. Neither the sender, (650) 739-9027, nor the phone number to call, were 800 numbers. Also usually one refers to a credit [...]

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Did you feel the tremor? The 2010 challenges for EDA

Yes, did you feel it? No, I am not talking about the two earthquakes that I felt last week in San Jose, shaking the buildings, and leaving people with that weird feeling that they just experienced a whisper of the Big One to come. No, I am talking about the tremor in the US economy. [...]

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Is Twitter Flattening? A Short Answer

Compete and Quantcast have now released their latest data about the traffic on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for December. According to Compete’s report, twitter.com’s US traffic reached 22.81 million unique visitors [...]

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The truth about Twitter usage

Three research firms reported traffic to Twitter.com dropping between the month of September and October. According to these firms, the number of unique US visitors to the Twitter website went down [...]

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Twitter sure is a rollercoaster, but going up or down?

The last 10 days have been pretty interesting to follow in the fast moving world of Twitter. They showed a contrasting (or seemingly so) picture of where the super-hyped company is heading. Let us rewind the last few events [...]

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