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Today in Tech: Criminals mining LinkedIn breach to scam users

Samsung grooms a new CEO; Foursquare launches a new app.

Criminals exploit LinkedIn breach for phishing attacks [THE NEW YORK TIMES]

Shortly after the breach surfaced, LinkedIn users began receiving e-mails from what, at first glance, looked like LinkedIn. The e-mails asked users to confirm their e-mail address by clicking on an embedded link. But the link took users to scam sites, such as an illegal online pharmaceutical site that sells Viagra MORE

Apple's roller-coaster ride on the Fortune 500 list

From Jobs to Sculley to Spindler to Amelio to Jobs (again) and Cook

FORTUNE -- It's been seven months since Fabio Zambelli retired SetteB.IT, the Italian-language blog with which he'd been covering Apple (AAPL) for more than five years. But he's still tracking the company's progress. When Fortune released its annual listing of America's 500 largest companies over the weekend -- a list that showed Apple rising from 35 in 2011 to MORE

Mothers Day: 9 out of 10 moms would prefer an iPad to flowers

But only 12% of their kids plan to buy them a gadget, and most will spend less than $50

FORTUNE -- Think a phone call or a floral display is going to satisfy Mom this Mothers Day?

Think again. According to a survey released Tuesday by the shopping site TechBargains.com, 91% of mothers polled would much rather have an Apple (AAPL) iPad than yet another bunch of flowers.

What Mom wants and what MORE

Silly rumor of the day: Apple to buy Twitter for $10B

Not going to happen. Not Apple. Not at that price. No matter what Forbes says.

FORTUNE -- At 11:07 a.m. Monday, a brief item hit the business newswires:

Apple may buy Twitter for $10B -- Forbes

At first I assumed it was some kind of mistake. But no, there it was on Forbes.com: A 980-word piece by Eric Jackson, one of their regular contributors, pitching Apple's (AAPL) $10 billion purchase of Twitter as MORE

As Twitter turns six, there's more to be done

Six years ago today, Twitter launched to the masses. But those masses are still in need of a few key features that the site doesn't yet offer. Here's our wish list.

By Daniel Roberts, reporter

FORTUNE -- Happy birthday, blue bird! Despite some rocky corporate drama, Twitter is going strong six years after its inception, with the company touting more than 140 million active users. But those users could benefit from a MORE

Today in Tech: PayPal launches credit card reader

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* Digg founder Kevin Rose and the rest of his team from the mobile app incubator Milk are joining Google (GOOG). The move comes after the news that Milk was shutting down its one and only app, Oink. (AllThingsD)

* PayPal unveiled its new credit card reader and app, which will enter MORE

Today in Tech: Intel cooking up Internet TV service?

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* Yahoo (YHOO) slapped Facebook with a 19-page lawsuit over 10 patents covering a wide area, from advertising to messaging. Among the allegations: Facebook essentially ripped off its social networking technology, including the now-popular News Feed. (AllThingsD)

* Intel (INTC) is developing an Internet-based TV service that would be aimed at U.S. customers. MORE

How StumbleUpon saved itself

It doesn't have Facebook's huge user base or Pinterest's deafening buzz, but some people use this quiet social media service just as much, and advertisers may actually prefer putting their ad dollars in it.

FORTUNE -- StumbleUpon, the ten-year-old social site, has managed something few Silicon Valley companies have: a comeback. It may not have the buzz -- or billions -- of Facebook, but StumbleUpon has managed to right itself after a brush MORE

Hollywood taps into the Twittersphere

FORTUNE -- When Disney released its new Muppets movie, the studio made use of a different kind of focus group to predict box office sales: the Twittersphere. Big movie studios are increasingly tapping into hundreds of thousands of tweets to plot their marketing strategies, deciding which trailers and ad campaigns work, and even whom they should cast in their next films. Disney (DIS) gets its social media data from a MORE

Today in Tech: What's Google doing with $120 million?

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* How the music industry adapted to social media. (Brian Solis)

* Private social network Path came under fire in recent weeks after reports hit that the startup was storing users' address book information on their servers. Since then, the company has apologized and reversed its actions, however New York Times columnist argues MORE