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Fast Company David Peisner	What Really Happened During Evan Williams's Worst SXSW Moment? Twitter CEO and former Blogger founder Ev Williams returned to SXSW for what most assumed would be a triumphant homecoming keynote interview with Umair Haque, director of Havas Media Labs and a blogger for the Harvard Business Review.
Fast Company David Peisner	When SXSWi Almost Died -- And The Bloggers Who Saved It While SXSW was struggling to remain financially viable, it began to find some creative vitality, thanks to the efforts of a small group of bloggers, designers, and budding entrepreneurs.
Fast Company Chris Gayomali	Britain's Spy Agency Reportedly Collected Millions Of Webcam Images From Yahoo Users Operation "Optic Nerve," which operated from 2008 and was shown to still be active in 2012, reportedly collected webcam footage in bulk of millions of individuals
Fast Company Chris Gayomali	Why Do Companies Keep Getting Hacked? "These days, criminal hacking is a business," Patrick Thomas, a security consultant at Neohapsis, tells Fast Company. "Everything that is done has a chain linked to real dollars. And hackers are looking for the shortest chain."
Fast Company Alice Truong	Not Your Typical Hackathon: Symantec's Cyberwar Simulation Transforms Employees Into Criminals The security software company hosted a different kind of hackathon: Employees were tasked with breaking into a fictitious bank.
Fast Company David Zax	How London Cabbies Use Facebook To Share "The Knowledge" Users should expect to see the Facebook Groups experience improve and that will help Patric McGuinness as he continues to learn The Taxi Knowledge of London over the next few years.
Fast Company Chris Gayomali	Can Twitter Predict Major Events? A New Study Says Yes Twitter is great for things like spoiling the Olympics. But can the social network's data-gathering ways be used to predict big, potentially world-shaking events, like mass protests, for example?
Fast Company Evie Nagy	What Your Teen Is Really Doing All Day On Twitter And Instagram In her new book It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, Microsoft principal researcher danah boyd addresses the fears and misconceptions that adults have about teens' use of social media.
Fast Company March 2014 Peg Tyre	Beyond School Supplies: How DonorsChoose is Crowdsourcing Real Education Reform DonorsChoose, which Charles Best founded in 2000 while he was a teacher at a small public school in the Bronx, has grown into an educational charity juggernaut.
Fast Company Alice Truong	Tweet For Your Supper -- And Handbag: Brands, Customers, And The New "Social Currency" Many companies are offering freebies to customers that tweet about them. Is this an effective form of marketing, and is it good for their credibility?
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