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Tech leaders on Twitter and politics
The growing influence of Silicon Valley, Austin and New York is starting to reverberate in Washington, upcoming tech leaders said Tuesday.Evan Burfield, co-founder of startup platform 1776, said understanding "the logic of these machines" is a second language in most fields now, at POLITICO’S Emerging Tech Leaders event at Microsoft’s Washington ...
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Maine Man Charged In Death Of Teen He Met On Facebook
BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- Police charged a 20-year-old Maine man with murder Tuesday in the death of a 15-year-old girl who was last seen more than a week ago, when she went to meet someone she met on Facebook. Kyle Dube, of Orono, was charged in the death of Nichole Cable of Glenburn after a body presumed to be that of the girl was found in a wooded area Monday night, Maine State Police Lt. ...
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UPDATE 3-Microsoft unveils Xbox One with Spielberg Activision tie-up
Tue May 21, 2013 3:21pm EDT By Bill Rigby and Malathi Nayak REDMOND, Wash. May 21 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp gave the world a first look at its new Xbox One on Tuesday, announcing that its first gaming console in eight years will come with exclusive video and software content, including a "Halo" series produced by Steven Spielberg. The Xbox One, which will be available later this year ...
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Highest-paid South Florida technology executives -- slideshow
Technology is a booming job market in South Florida and local companies have heaped millions of dollars upon local executives. The Business Journal examined Securities and Exchange Commission filings for the largest information and technology companies based in the region and found some lucrative awards were handed out. Most of the compensation was in the form of stock, as opposed to salary, so ...
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How to deal when social media drives you crazy
Is Social Media Anxiety Disorder, known as SMAD, the newest affliction resulting from our love affair with Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites? Researchers have stopped short of actually classifying SMAD as a disorder, but it's no doubt a problem. Sure, you could quit using your social sites altogether -- but then you'd be, well, bored and lonely. Science may ...
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Twitter builds internal guidelines for handling legal battles over patents
The Verge reports . But Twitter also has an original, internal approach to patent applications. All Twitter’s patents include a contract in which the company agrees to engage in patent litigation only if they are sued first. The contract is meant to deal with the concerns of the engineers whose work is being patented, and who feel the definition of defensive litigation can be ...
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Twitter granted refresh patent vows to use it only defensively
(Credit: Twitter/USPTO) Twitter has won a new patent that it hopes to use as an example to stem the tide of patent lawsuits. Granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today, the patent named ...
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The biggest social-media mistake youre probably making
A common mistake companies make in their social-media campaigns is putting the efforts on an island, all alone, to sink or swim alone. When it comes to using social media for your business, there are a lot of mistakes that most people know to avoid - bad-mouthing a customer, deleting a critical comment or posting risqu pictures on the official company Twitter account, to name a few. But what ...
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The List Top 5 corporate philanthropists large companies
The Puget Sound Business Journal ranks the biggest Washington corporate philanthropists by corporate and foundation giving in the state in 2012. For the top five givers in the large company category (annual revenues of $500 million or more), see the next slides. For the complete list, compiled by Researcher Bonnie Graves, see the Corporate Citizenship supplement to the May 17 print edition of ...
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Google Glass and privacy Remember the dawn of cellphone cameras Guest blog
If you see Steve Potell wearing his Google Glass, ask to try it out. But be forewarned: Once you try it, you'll want a pair of your own. Well, I'm back from the Google I/O conference. I thought I'd share a bit of what I learned about Google Glass, since it was such a hot topic of conversation. I let anyone who wanted to try out my Glass. And I had quite a few conversations about ...
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Twitter and Kiwi athletes Tweeting unites fans media and players
It's 6.58 on an unremarkable Tuesday night in Mt Wellington, and influential sports jock Andrew Mulligan is about to go live on air. The Crowd Goes Wild host is a mix of nerves and excitement, but it is his cellphone on which he is most focused. He's checking Twitter, the 140-characters-maximum social media network which is both transforming and occasionally disrupting traditional news feeds ...
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Delete that Twitter faux pas that failed to impress
LionsAfter publicly issuing media guidelines for players to follow on their coming tour of Australia, the Lions lost the plot with their official account. First a picture of a Springbok impaled on a railing was used with the words: "Isn't this what @lionsofficial did to Springboks in the 3rd Test in Johannesburg 2009? @qantaswallabies be warned. "Then just before the 37-strong squad was ...
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Head hunter Russell Reynolds adds health care head in San Francisco office social media guru in Palo Alto
Sofie Qiao. Russell Reynolds Associates, a New York-based executive search firm, named Sofie Qiao as San Francisco-based executive director of the health care sector. Prior to joining Russell Reynolds, Qiao co-founded biotech firm LEAD Therapeutics, consulted and did other management work at Discovery Partners International, Syrrx (now Takeda California), McKinsey & Co., and Genzyme (now ...
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Poll Teens migrating to Twitter
A new poll finds that teens are sharing more about themselves on social media. They're also moving increasingly to Twitter to avoid their parents and the "oversharing" that they see on ...
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Googles Search Market Share Drops as Bing Passes 17
comScore's April 2013 search engine rankings . Google dropped 0.6 percent in April, dropping from March's 67.1 percent to 66.5 percent. However, this is exactly the same search percentage as ...
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Google extends lead in display ads Facebook slips
-0.69% widened its lead in U.S. online display ads, capturing 24.1% of the market's $3 billion revenue in the first quarter, IDC reported Tuesday. That's a gain of 3 percentage points from the year-earlier period. Yahoo ...
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What Top 5 Social Brands On Twitter Are Doing Right
Socialbakers published its ';Socially Devoted Brand Survey,'; containing information about the most social brands on Twitter. Who are these brands and what are they doing right? Let’s take a ...
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Veteran VC predicts an education revolution
Avery More of Menlo Ventures sees massive disruption coming to all levels of education, thanks to technology. A very More made a mark more than 20 years ago running 1980s computer retail pioneers CompuCom and Computer City, which he sold to CompUSA in 1998. But he says he has always been more of a tech entrepreneur than a retail guy and that is where he focuses these days. He has concentrated ...
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Eminems music publisher sues Facebook over use of song
Eminem's music publisher is suing Facebook and an advertiser for using a song from the "Marshall Mathers LP" without permission in a recent advertisement for the new Facebook feature called "Airplane." In the lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, Ferndale-based Eight Mile Style LLC alleges copyright infringement for using the song "Under the ...
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Mindgrub opens marketing offices in D.C. Boston and Philly
Mindgrub CEO Todd Marks said the new marketing offices are needed to handle a growing client network that Mindgrub is developing. Mobile and Web developer Mindgrub Technologies LLC is opening marketing offices in Washington, Philadelphia and Boston. The new offices are needed to handle a growing client network that Mindgrub is developing along the East Coast, CEO Todd Marks said in a ...
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Florida parents turn to Internet to help daughter charged with sex with girl minor
ORLANDO - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolmate, was another girl.By late Monday afternoon, almost 100,000 people had signed ...
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Boston Scientific competitor calls the cops to seize illegal stents in Germany
A stent is a tiny mesh tube implanted during an angioplasty procedure improve blood flow. A Hong Kong-based medical device manufacturer thats been accusing Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) of patent infringement since at least 2009 upped the ante last week, seizing more than 190 heart stents from a BSX site in Germany with the help of police. OrbusNeich Medical Inc., which has U.S. offices in ...
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How a Twitter debate led to one theatres money-back guarantee
in Vancouver, he wants to know - and he'll refund the price of your ticket."If we're a young, innovative, energetic theatre company that is trying to do the best work that we can, why wouldn't we back our work with something like a money-back guarantee?", says McMullen. "Are we going to be so afraid of people disliking our work that we will, in fact, lose money on ...
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Legislature wont refill angel-credit pot but OKs $12M for 2014
A plan to add capacity to the state's angel-investor tax credit program died in the waning hours of the Minnesota legislative session. Minnesotas pool of angel-investor tax credits will remain dry through the end of the year. The state ran out of credits for the program which provides tax credits to investors who put money into startup companies this month, but a Senate proposal was poised ...
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First South Florida Technology Summit to be held Wednesday
The first South Florida Technology Summit will offer attendees an opportunity to learn about the hottest gadgets and to prepare for future tech advancements with workshops, tutorials, presentations, keynotes and exhibits. The annual technology summit, which is presented by TigerDirect.com in collaboration with The LAB Miami and Refresh Miami, will take place from 1 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday at the ...
Calcutta Spotlight
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Stephen Court disaster: any lessons learned?
Over 700 buildings in Calcutta are not compliant with safety regulations with regard to the risk of fire, and the Stephen Court disaster was a tangible example of what can happen when a fire breaks out in an unsafe building. Following that disaster, the local government seems to be taking a harder line on fire safety.
At 2.30pm on the 23 March, 2010, a devastating fire, allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit, ripped through the iconic Stephen Court building in Calcutta, destroying a large part of the 150-year-old office and residential block and killing over 30 people. Read more
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