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• Teens growing cool on Facebook but warming to Twitter, Pew study finds

  Some teens are growing tired of the excessive sharing and "drama" on Facebook and more are turning to sites like Twitter and Instagram to express themselves, according to a new study.

• Bitcoin's rollercoaster ride is not slowing down

  More bumps in the road are probably in store for Bitcoin. The virtual currency has seen some massive swings in value over the last several weeks, but that volatility is not likely to end soon, its lead developer suggested on Saturday.

• Google Glass ecosystem grows with Twitter, Facebook and CNN apps

  Google is working to build out the app ecosystem for its upcoming Glass, showing off work today at Google I/O from partners like Twitter, Facebook, CNN and Elle.

• Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr try out social networking apps for Glass

  While Google promotes its Glass head-mounted display as a new way for people to receive and document information on the fly, several social networking companies including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr now want a piece of the action, by offering social applications on the device.

• NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet

  E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems would be awful for the Internet.

• Mozilla to Firefox: 'Browser, heal thyself'

  Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 21, adding more social media connections, tweaking the Do Not Track privacy setting and rolling out a new tool that long term, aims to create a self-healing browser.

• BlackBerry Messenger is expanding to iOS and Android

  BlackBerry's free Messenger service is being expanded to work with iOS and Android devices, the company announced today at its BlackBerry Live event.

• Wall Street Beat: Rise in markets could fuel tech M&A

  Increasing confidence in the economy and a rising stock market could lay the groundwork for a revival in tech-sector mergers and acquisitions as companies embrace cloud technology and pursue game-changing software, particularly for the mobile market.

• Bing brings more of Facebook to search

  Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site.

• Pretty much everybody still confused by mobile management

  Despite the abundance of expert opinion, commentary and debate surrounding BYOD and mobile device use in the enterprise, there are still few clear answers to some of the biggest problems out there, according to a panel of experts that spoke at Interop.

• IDC: Cloud, mobility exposing limitations of existing networks

  The combination of highly virtualised environments inside enterprise networks, along with an explosion of mobile traffic, are exposing the limitations of existing networks, and driving the need for a new era of dynamic and scalable networks of the future, IDC researchers said in a panel discussion at Interop this week.

• Facebook Home attracts close to 1 million downloads

  Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.

• Facebook may be driving deal for Waze mobile app

  Facebook reportedly is in talks to buy a popular Israeli-based crowd-sourced mapping and traffic app.

• Facebook to design an open source switch

  As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

• Interop network squares off against controlled 70G bit/sec DDoS attack

  The network at one of the biggest annual networking shows is being subject to a series of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) creating the equivalent of 90 million sessions attempting to use the network at the same time, all as part of a controlled test of the Interop network.