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October 26, 2012 02:50 PM
Appending Larry
Google's "premature release" spins off another viral meme — and an ethical question
A recent Reuters article on Google's prematurely released earnings report noted that a Twitter parody account was created to mock the "PENDING LARRY QUOTE" in the company’s unfinished document: "[W]ithin minutes, though, an unknown prankster set up a "PendingLarry" Twitter feed to hypothesize what the missing quote might be. Among the highlights: 'Man, our privacy was WAY violated today.'" After...
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