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...Earlier this month, Musk said the deal was “temporarily on hold”, pending more clarity on the number of fake or spam accounts on the platform....
...The parallels to Twitter are obvious, where Elon Musk clearly seems to feel badly about striking a $44bn deal for the social network and is agitating on the issue of bot and spam accounts a way to reopen...
...But the chief blocker emerged with unequivocal speed: a senior partner in the New York office on the sixth floor....
...Related Links: LinkedIn will finally stop spamming your inbox - The Verge LinkedIn agrees to pay $13 million in 'spam' settlement - LA Times...
...They cannot ignore the “fake news, clickbait, spam and data misuse”, cited by Facebook itself in one ad promising to do better....
...The company also said it would continue to use signals such as spam and abuse flags to identify problematic content....
...Spam text messages are also not covered by the service, although they can be reported to a mobile network operator by forwarding the text to 7726....
...CME Group, the exchange group, said that the percentage of self-trades was less than 0.2 per cent of its total volume, while Intercontinental Exchange — which mandated self-trading blockers for proprietary...
...They might send a spam email intentionally to see that the executive is out of the office, [making] it prime time to target....
...At a time when people are increasingly using caller ID to screen calls and ad blocker software and spam protection to filter emails, companies must find new ways to reach customers....
...Truecaller allows users to search for phone numbers and block spam calls....
...Only 4 per cent of users said they stayed away because of concerns around privacy, ads, or spam....
...Turn on your spam filters....
...Hadoop is used as a spam filter and to pick the relevant stories and ads to place on the Yahoo homepage....
...Mr Blocker called the allegations against him “baseless and meritless”....
...messages from outside Facebook to users taking up the offer of @facebook.com e-mail addresses would go into an Other Messages folder until users chose to move them to their main inbox, partly to combat spam...
...Security firm KnujOn (backwards for No Junk, reflecting the small outfit’s anti-spam roots) has a new report out this morning, pointing a finger at website registrars for facilitating a wide range of internet...
...We’d always assumed that such shabby online antics — much like penis extension spam or those promises of prize draw winnings if you call a special number for ten minutes — were the domain of shady off-shore...
...We don’t want Martin to go the way of Michael Kinsley, who opened up the op-ed pages of the LA Times to a Wikitorial experiment – and a porn spam attack. Related links: Arena blog – FT.com...
...Meanwhile Hormel Foods, which makes Spam, also found gains with the company’s profits surging nearly 50 per cent from last year as the cost of animal feed fell....
...Related links: GAO to Paulson: Must do better – FT Alphaville What is your assessment as to the typical volume of spam received from the FSA per day? – FT Alphaville...
...Another, cheaper alternative to an internet security suite is to assemble a collection of software security tools from scratch – including personal firewall, anti-virus/malware protector and spam blocker...
...The maker of Spam luncheon meat cited the higher cost of meat and corn. Its shares closed 1.1 per cent higher at $34.79....
...Looks like we’re not the only ones who have noticed the big pickup in penny stock spam making it through our spam blockers....
...Firewalls, anti-virus software, spam and spyware blockers and privacy protection packages are all part of the armoury....
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