A studio that YouTube is opening in Manhattan will bring the company in proximity to more traditional creators of media content, along with a huge new pool of talent.

Snapchat responded to reports that tens of thousands of photos shared privately on its service had been intercepted and posted publicly, blaming unauthorized third-party apps for the security breach. ?Snapchat?s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks,? a spokeswoman for Snapchat said in a statement Friday via email. ?
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FBI director says Apple and Google are putting their customers beyond the law?
FBI director James Comey really likes car analogies. Last week, in the first of a two-part interview on 60 Minutes, he called the Internet the ?most dangerous parking lot imaginable,? meaning, I think, that you should be prepared to Taser any menacing email attachment that sneaks up behind you.

The world's largest taxicab trade group sent around a press release today calling out Uber Technologies for receiving an "F" rating from the Better Business Bureau. That's true, but what the e-mail fails to mention is that many of the largest cab companies also get Fs from the BBB.