Twitter says that 70 percent of its users come from outside the U.S. at the moment, and so it makes sense that this is where it is also investing more to grow the rest of its business

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Twitter Adds Another International Google Exec To Its Sales Team: Stephen McIntyre

While many browsers already feature a “do not track” button, in truth they’re largely ineffectual, because advertisers and tracking companies hadn’t agreed to honor the system. Now, prompted by the Obama administration’s attempt to ensure our online privacy , that is about to change.

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Internet Giants to Adopt a Do-Not-Track Button [Privacy]

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The Wi-Fi Alliance on Wednesday revealed its plans to begin certifying devices under its new Passport initiative , which ensures mobile phones – among other things – can log into Wi-Fi networks seamlessly.

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The next generation of Wi-Fi hotspots is coming

Today, the Obama administration is to unveil a new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, which it hopes to roll out in order to protect people’s privacy online. The question is, can it work?

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Can Obama’s New Consumer Privacy Bill Keep Your Data Safe? [Privacy]

Boku  until now has been known for enabling carrier billing for online goods, so users can pay for digital items on Facebook and other online sites using their mobile phone number. But the San Francisco payment startup is leaping into the physical world with the launch of a new white-label offering for carriers that will include in-store payments. The new service, called Boku Accounts, will allow operators to set up payment accounts for mobile users that will work in physical stores using MasterCardcards, NFC stickers and NFC-enabled phones.

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Rest assure, LG is still on top of things and announced today its Optimus 4X HD a new Quad Core Smartphone! Available later this year, the Optimus 4X HD comes pre-loaded with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwiches and will offer you all the bell and whistles that comes with an 1.5Ghz Tegra 3 CPU (Quad Core). Screen-wise the Optimus 4X HD comes with a rather nice little 4.7” True HD IPS screen (1280

The most impressive thing about Scan is that it, as a humble QR code app, has raised over $1.7 million in seed funding from, wait for it, Shervin Pishevar via Menlo Ventures ,  Google Ventures , Charles River Ventures, Yuri Milner’s Start Fund , Social + Capital Partnership , Transmedia Capital , Ludlow Ventures and angels Ariel Poler, Naval Ravikant of AngelPool, Jim Pallotta of Raptor Group and Gaga manager Troy Carter . Provo, Utah-based Scan co-founder Garrett Gee finds QR codes as distasteful as the next person, but he believes in exceptions. He thinks Scan can go beyond its modest ambitions as a QR code and 1D barcode scanner and make those awkward squares that now serve as hopeful addendums to things like movie posters and conference badges ubiquitous and user-friendly.

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Scan Gets $1.7M From Google Ventures And Shervin Pishevar To Make QR Codes Actually Useful

Boku is debuting a brand new mobile payments platform today, that aims to disrupt the current way that consumers pay for goods via their mobile phones or credit cards. As you may remember, Boku offers an online payments platform that allowed users to pay for online goods by charging the transaction to their mobile phone bill. When a user wants to purchase a virtual item, he can enter his cell phone number on a site, the site sends a text message to the phone, the user confirms the transaction with a short reply, and all the charges show up on his phone bill.

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Ahead Of Funding News, Boku Debuts NFC-Enabled Mobile Payments Platform For Carriers, Merchants And Consumers

Editor’s note : Guest author Gang Lu is the editor of TechNode , a bilingual blog based in China. As Facebook’s imminent IPO became the talk of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, you might have read from the social networking site’s SEC S-1 filing that it pulled in more than $1 billion in profit on revenue of $3.71 billion last year. What Facebook’s prospectus will not tell you, is that the social giant has taken a page from Tencent ’s business model, at least according to the Chinese Internet giant’s CTO

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Tencent CTO: Facebook Took a Page From Our Biz Model