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• Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks jump as market indexes hit milestones

  On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, sending shares of IT companies higher as key stock-market indexes hit milestone highs.

• EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy

  Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands.

• LinkedIn revamps contacts feature to boost relationship management

  LinkedIn has revamped the contacts management feature of its professional networking website and packaged the functionality into a new iOS application.

• Wall Street pushes for exemptions in state social-media monitoring laws

  Even as several states have put in place, or are proposing new laws barring employers from monitoring the social media activities of their employees, one Wall Street regulator is seeking exemptions to such rules for some financial services companies.

• LinkedIn to buy Pulse, maker of mobile news reader app

  LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking site, continues to beef up its content publishing platform with its agreement to acquire Pulse, which makes a mobile news aggregation, reader and content distribution application.

• Is Amazon working on a Kindle smartphone?

  Amazon may be building a Kindle smartphone on a custom version of Android to be launched in the second half of 2013.

• In Pictures: Best tools for social media analytics

  How to tell if your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn efforts are paying off

• LinkedIn sharpens search engine feature

  LinkedIn has revamped its search engine with changes intended to make it easier for members to find information on the business networking site, whose volume of content has increased and grown more diverse in recent years.

• Bing weaves more Facebook, Twitter data into search results

  Bing is incorporating more information from outside social networks such as Facebook and Twitter into how it displays search results involving people.

• LinkedIn is down, then up, then down again Wednesday morning

  LinkedIn, the professional social media network, is suffering intermittent service disruptions Wednesday morning.

• Former Tribune staffer accused of conspiring in Anonymous hack

  A former Tribune Company employee could face as much as 10 years of jail time over federal charges accusing him of conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into a Tribune website.

• Thread app aims to modernize caller ID on smartphones

  Brooklyn-based Sprezzat wants to modernize caller ID for people's smartphones with a little help from Twitter and Facebook.

• LinkedIn wins dismissal of lawsuit seeking damages for massive password breach

  Professional social networking service LinkedIn won the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of premium users who had their log-in passwords exposed as a result of a security breach of the company's servers last year.

• Who owns that Twitter account?

  Noah Kravitz built up quite a following at PhoneDog, a mobile-phone news and reviews website. By late 2010 his @PhoneDog_Noah Twitter account had amassed more than 17,000 followers. That was all well and good, until Kravitz resigned and went to work for a competitor.

• In Pictures: 10 LinkedIn tips to boost your networking success

  If you're reviving an old job search or looking to expand your LinkedIn savvy, take a look at these features and tips to get back on the right path.