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Microsoft killing off some of its MSN apps, Photosynth app, this fall

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Microsoft has a bunch of content aggregator apps under the MSN brand (and before that, the Bing brand): News, Weather, Sports, Money, Health & Fitness, Food & Drink, and Travel. These apps run on Windows 8, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android.

Three of the apps are being shut down later this year: Travel, Food & Drink, and Health & Fitness. In a statement, Microsoft said that it would continue to work on the apps with “broad consumer appeal,” indicating that the problem with these three is that they simply weren’t used enough. The company says that nobody will be losing their jobs.

The Food & Drink and Travel apps will be discontinued on September 28. Oddly, Health & Fitness will be discontinued a little later; it lives on until November 1.

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Twitter accounts outside of the US now fall under EU data protection rules

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Twitter revised its privacy policy over the weekend, changing where it handles the account information of users outside the U.S. and clarifying some points.

As of Saturday, account information for Twitter users outside the U.S. is handled by Twitter International in Dublin, Ireland. This means that all account information will be subject to Irish privacy and data protection law, which is based on the European Union’s Data Protection Directive, Twitter said on its site.

The accounts of U.S. users will still be handled by Twitter’s head office in San Francisco under U.S. law.

Dublin is popular with U.S. tech companies, which often base their international and EU operations there. The country’s favorable corporation tax regime is often seen as a reason for IT companies to settle there—as is the small staff of its privacy regulator, which has a staff of just 29 to tackle domestic and international companies.

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15 can’t-miss products at DEMO Fall 2014

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DEMO has served as a launching pad for startups that have gone on to become some of the world’s biggest companies, from Netscape Navigator and TiVo to VMware and Salesforce.com. With DEMO Fall 2014 set to kick off today, here are 15 new products to check out.

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