Top 4 Stories in Social Media and Business This Morning
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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today.
Twitter “Mouseover” Security Flaw Affects Thousands of Users
A
href="http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/twitter-mouseover-bug/">new Twitter security flaw has been widely exploited on thousands of
href="http://www.mashable.com/category/twitter">Twitter accounts, causing users to see pop-up messages and be redirected to third-party websites when passing a mouse over a link.
Among the current list of victims is Sarah Brown, wife of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Until Twitter issues a fix, we advise users to access the service via third-party apps such as
href="http://www.mashable.com/tag/tweetdeck">TweetDeck, as the bug only seems to affect Twitter’s web interface.
Nokia N8 Release Delayed Until October
Just two weeks ago, Nokia
href="http://mashable.com/2010/09/08/nokia-n8-coming-september/">announced that online orders for its forthcoming Symbian^3 smartphone, the
href="http://www.mashable.com/tag/nokia-n8">N8, would be delivered “during the last week of September,” and that the device would appear in physical stores in the UK on October 1. Now, the company
href="http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/nokia-delays-n/">says it has “decided to hold the shipments for a few weeks to do some final amends” and that it expects consumers will receive their pre-ordered N8s sometime in October.
A follow-up
href="http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/09/21/nokia-n8-shipping-update/" target="_blank">blog post from the company claims that the delay is due to a “record number of online pre-orders.”
Private Equity Firm Acquires Internet Brands for $640 Million
Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman has
href="http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/internet-brands-acquired/">agreed to acquire online media company Internet Brands for approximately $640 million in cash.
Internet Brands operates a large number of media, community, and e-commerce websites, including DoItYourself, Wikitravel, Loan.com, Autos.com and more.
United Internet AG Acquires Mail.com for Up to $100 Million
Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), which owns popular online properties such as Moveline.com, Boy Genius Report, OnCars and Deadline.com, has
href="http://mashable.com/2010/09/20/mmc-sells-mail-com/">sold its Mail.com e-mail service and domain to United Internet AG, a multibillion dollar German Internet service and telecom provider. Our sources say the web property was sold for between $50 and $100 million.
Further News
href="http://www.mashable.com/category/google">Google has
href="http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/googles-transparency-report/">launched Transparency Report, a set of tools including an interactive map that shows which governments have asked for information about users, or requested that Google to censor or take down content.
At Mashable and 92Y’s Social Good Summit yesterday, Bonin Bough, global director of digital and social media at
href="http://www.mashable.com/tag/pepsico">PepsiCo,
href="http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/pepsi-refresh-project-racks-up-more-votes-than-last-presidential-election/">revealed that more people have voted in the
href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/04/pepsi-refresh-sxsw/">Pepsi Refresh Project than voted for the last U.S. president.
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href="http://mashable.com/tag/first-to-know-series/">first to know series,
href="http://mashable.com/tag/google/">Google,
href="http://mashable.com/tag/internet-brands/">Internet Brands,
href="http://mashable.com/tag/mail-com/">Mail.com,
href="http://mashable.com/tag/nokia-n8/">Nokia N8,
href="http://mashable.com/tag/social-good-summit/">social good summit,
href="http://mashable.com/tag/transparency-report/">Transparency Report,
href="http://mashable.com/tag/twitter/">twitter,
href="http://mashable.com/tag/united-internet-ag/">United Internet AG
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