Microsoft is stepping up its Scroogled campaign, launching television, print and online ads attacking Google (GOOGL) on privacy issues. To that end, page A9 of our edition of The New York Times features a half-page ad charging that Google “looks for keywords in your personal email and uses them to target you with paid ads.” Gmail accounts. [NYT]
The Silicon Valley job market is growing at levels last scene in the late-1990s, a piece of information that’s hard to receive without experiencing a pang of anxiety. Also nervous-making: when people in the Silicon Valley business community are saying things like “The growth is crazy and it’s getting crazier.” [Oakland Tribune]
An organized crime syndicate used re-loadable prepaid debit cards to withdraw $11 million from ATMs in a pair of cyber heists in the last days of 2010. [Krebs]
Tumblr is adding real-time updates to its dashboard, a la Facebook (META)’s News Ticker. [TechCrunch]
It wasn’t so long ago that rappers were seeking out business gurus. Grammy-winning producer DeVon Harris says startups should be studying hip-hop. [Quartz]
