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Facebook is nearing a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to let users of the social network opt-in to its sharing privacy settings, rather than opting out.

What this would mean is that people using Facebook would not be sharing any content submitted to the social network with anyone by default. They would need to check off a particular setting in order to make something 'Public'.

News of the proposed deal was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Facebook would be required to submit privacy audits for the next twenty years, similar to the concession...

Sales for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 hardware held as the top-selling hardware in the latest U.S. figures.

Microsoft this week reported that the Xbox 360 sold 393,000 units in Oct. U.S. sales to rank as the No. 1 hardware for the month.

The company added the Xbox 360 held more than 44 percent of current generation market share for the month.

Microsoft in July said the Entertainment and Devices division, which includes the Xbox business, recorded revenue of $1.48 billion, an increase of $1.41 billion one year earlier.

The division held operating profit...

Cloud computing is not only changing how users access software applications, it's also upending the pricing model for software products. Fading fast are the days when software packages were sold in boxes with a one-time, perpetual software license fee. Instead, consumers and businesses are increasingly turning to subscription models and are buying only those applications they need for particular tasks rather than broad, general-purpose suites.

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An unprecedented ad network agreement between three of the largest display ad sellers is now official. Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft have confirmed plans to pool together their unsold inventory in a deal that aims to increase their margins, secure higher prices for remnant ads, and augment the reach available to agencies and advertisers.

At its core, the deal is not so different from what ad networks have been doing for years, which is resell each others' inventory. By early next year, the companies aim to inegrate one another's real-time bidding platforms to facilitate the availability...