Many of you who have been using streaming music service Spotify for free in the US from when it launched last July are now going to have to start paying, as Business Insider  points out today. The reason is the company’s policy of limiting free usage to ten hours and/or five plays per track every month, after the first six months of the trial

Facebook has updated its page insights product to make data more accurate regarding the location of a page’s audience.

TechCrunch has received a response from Facebook to the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s letter urging the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate Timeline for privacy violations.

Facebook hired engineers and security personnel, according to the company’s LinkedIn  feed. And looking at posts now removed from its  Careers  page, it seems Facebook hired a Lead Security Counsel and International Counsel LATAM, as well as engineering and other assorted staff

Back in July of last year, ArtistData Founder and serial entrepreneur Brenden Mulligan brought his newest project, Onesheet , into beta.

Facebook posted engineering jobs, marketing, insights, and various other jobs on its  Careers  page this week, starting the new year looking for new talent. Some positions posted on the company’s  LinkedIn  feed refer to insights analysts

YCombinator-backed hacker recruiter platform  Hackruiter has raised a modest seed round from investors SV Angel and Founder Collective. The company raised $200K but could have raised much more, because it is already profitable co-founder David Albert tells me

As we’ve reported in the past , PayPal announced an in-store payments technology both via mobile and point of sale systems that is currently being tested on a ‘friends and family’ basis in a national retailer. That retailer is Home Depot, we’ve learned from PayPal.

Watch first, then read. Or just watch, that’s cool too

We don’t design and hardware quite as much as we used to, but I’m making an exception for these. A good while back, I wrote about a pair of headphones I thought was the most understated and attractive I’d ever seen