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Israels Facebook community numbers 4m real users
Israel's Facebook community numbers four million real users, who enter the social networking site at least once a month, and are not fake profiles. 60% of the Israeli users, 2.4 million people, enter Facebook daily, according to the company's official figures. 52% of Israeli Facebook users are men and 48% are women. People aged 18-24 are the biggest segment by age, accounting for 30% ...
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Merger Monday -- Yahoo GrubHub Websense But What About Twitter and Microsoft
and Tumblr, Seamless North America and GrubHub, and Vista Equity Partners announced acquisition of Websense. Stand alone deals are always interesting given the potential response - some companies do nothing, others quickly put other companies into play while others up the ante for an existing transaction. Historically, however, big acquisitions tend to realize the big synergies -- better known ...
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Google+ in the SERPs Increasing Authorship Adoption High Data
author information in the SERPs . Since doing so, much has been written about the importance of ensuring search marketers have taken steps to set up authorship in Google+. Intuitively, it makes sense that greater attention is drawn to search results with pictures on them ...
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Share Dialog Comes To Facebook For iOS SDK
pushing Open Graph in a big way on mobile going forward. Part of those plans involved the Share Dialog – a tool that allows users to share on Facebook without having to login. It was only available as a limited beta at the time, but now all iOS developers can take advantage of ...
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Ascent Solar launches retail business in Colorado
Victor Lee, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies Inc., holds the companys EnerPlex Kickr IV, a flexible solar-power panel capable of charging phones, music players and other small, electronic equipment. Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. today said it has launched a retail presence in Colorado for its EnerPlex line of consumer solar products. The Thornton-based maker of flexible thin-film photovoltaic ...
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How To Be Hilarious On Twitter From A Writer Who Tweeted Her Way To TV
One of the funniest and most popular comedic voices on Twitter, "Parks and Recreation" writer Megan Amram knows her way around a one-liner. Here, she shares her tips for how to be funny in 140 characters or ...
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Twitter’s Fred Graver On 5 Ways To Engage Second Screen Viewers
One of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, Fred Graver, talks about how TV producers can embrace Twitter for turning fans into empowered ...
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BizNext 7 things you need to know 05.21.13
Square on Monday introduced Square Cash, initially invitation only, where you can send cash via email to anyone by cc:ing pay@square.com. Square takes a 50-cent cut of each transaction as it tries to compete with PayPal. Apple CEO Tim Cook will testify at a Senate hearing this morning in Washington, D.C., about taxes and the company's cash hoard overseas following the release of a study that ...
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Elon Musk Were repaying the government on Wednesday
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying back the company's $465 million U.S. Department of Energy loan early, and with interest. Tesla plans to repay its U.S. Department of Energy loan this weekon Wednesday, to be exact. In a tweet Monday, CEO Elon Musk wrote, "Given govt loan repayment this week (prob Wed), Supercharger update will be next week. Tesla borrowed $465 million in government money, ...
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Reputation.com co-founder raises $10M for ConsultingMD
ConsultingMD, led by Reputation.com co-founder Owen Tripp, has raised $10 million from Venrock. Owen Tripp set out to protect people's online reputation with his first startup, Reputation.com. Now he is out to protect their health with his new startup, ConsultingMD. "I have a passion for solving big problems," Tripp told me in an interview on Monday. "We started ConsultingMD to ...
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Google kills floundering Google Checkout asks people to use Google Wallet instead
Google this week announced it was killing Google Checkout, the company's PayPal competitor. Google would like to migrate its Checkout customers over to Google Wallet, pictured. Google is killing Checkout, the companys 7-year experiment in improving online payment processing. The service will die on Nov. 20. In the meantime, the search giant is asking existing Google Checkout customers to ...
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TiVo beats Q1 expectations on surprise subscriber growth
Alviso-based TiVo beat Wall Street's expectations in the first quarter, narrowing its quarterly loss to $10.3 million. Shares of TiVo got a bump in early trading today, after the Alviso-based company posted first quarter earnings that beat Wall Streets expectations. The company lost $10.3 million (or 9 cents per share) in its most recent quarter. Analysts had expected the company to report a ...
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Iranians face new Internet curbs before presidential election
By Yeganeh TorbatiDUBAI (Reuters) - Iranians are struggling with slower Internet speeds and limited access ahead of an unpredictable presidential election that has put hardline Islamist authorities on alert for possible unrest.Experts and web users say they believe the Internet obstacles are related to the June 14 presidential vote, the first since 2009 polls in which accusations of fraud - ...
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Raytheon Lockheed Martin in battle to build $3B space fence
The U.S. Air Force is expected to pick a winner this summer to build an advanced radar system capable of tracking an estimated half a million pieces of manmade space junk, floating in orbit, before it can threaten satellites used for navigation, weather and communication. Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) have competing proposals for the project, the Boston Globe reports. Both ...
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Best Buy beats again on earnings but sales are short of mark
An employee attaches price tags to displays at a Best Buy Co. store in Emeryville, California, U.S., on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Best Buy Co., the electronics, appliance and entertainment retailer, is expected to release quarterly earnings on March 29. Photographer: Three months ago, Best Buy Co. Inc. cheered up investors with a better-than-expected show of revenue and earnings, and investors ...
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Drivers Twitter Boast About Hitting Cyclist
Police are investigating after a driver apparently boasted on Twitter that she had knocked over a cyclist. The tweet was made by a young woman and ended with the comment "#bloody cyclists". It said: "Definitely knocked a cyclist off earlier - I have right of way he doesn't even pay road tax." Norfolk police were alerted to the collision via the social network ...
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Conquer social media to reach out to the youth says Narendra Modi
BJP's parliamentary board after being re-inducted in the central team, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday suggested using social media to reach out to the youth."Modi suggested how social media can be used as a tool to reach out to the young people," Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ananth Kumar told reporters after the meet.Modi also said the party should evaluate ...
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Google Analytics Language Report What You Can Learn About Your Visitors
This Google Analytics Language report is beneficial for understanding your users better and seeing how activity might vary across different languages. This report shows us how many visits and the on page interaction that has been seen for different languages. You can find the report here: Audience > Demographics > Language In the real world, we talk about languages by using their name, ...
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Tornado Facebook Group Reunites Oklahoma Victims With Belongings
When Leslie Hagelberg went outside of her West Tulsa, Okla., home on Sunday evening to check the weather, she noticed what appeared to be insulation and pieces of paper falling from the sky. But it wasn't until she found a photograph near her mailbox that it dawned on her what was happening: debris and belongings from the tornado that had struck in Shawnee -- 90 miles away -- had made ...
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Twitter hit-and-run boast shows dangers of road tax entitlement | Dawn Foster
It's safe to assume that most people in the event of hitting a cyclist while driving, who realised what they had done, would stop, call the police, and stay on the scene. Not so for one young woman, who appears to have hit a cyclist, carried on driving, and then most bizarrely taken to Twitter to boast of the ...
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Bless you for posting Facebook group reunites tornado victims with photos documents
This photo was posted on Facebook by Glen Adkisson after tornadoes struck Oklahoma on Monday. "This was in our yard 5/20/2013...Collinsville," he ...
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UPMC to lay off transcription workers
UPMC is reportedly going to eliminate its transcription division. UPMC is reportedly laying off 100 transcription workers as it seeks to cut costs. Most of the workers will be rehired by a company that does transcription for doctors. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Tuesday on the move, which comes as the health care giant looks to cut costs. The transcription workers could find jobs with ...
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Dish Network bids $2B for LightSquared frequencies
Various outlets have pegged Dish Network Corp.'s bid to purchase Clearwire anywhere from $2 billion to $10 billion, but the deal is probably closer to $5 billion. Charlie Ergen's Dish Network Corp. is said to have placed a $2 billion stalking-horse bid for mobile broadband spectrum from bankrupt Reston-based wireless startup LightSquared Inc., just as shareholders in another company ...
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Softbank plans record $3.9B bond sale in pursuit of Sprint bid
SoftBank plans a $3.9 billion bond issuance while pursuing its bid for Sprint Nextel. SoftBank Corp. said it intends to issue bonds in June to raise $3.9 billion as the Japanese company remains under pressure from Sprint Nextel Corp. shareholders to raise its bid for the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reported that Softbank Corp.'s move comes as Sprint ...
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Latest updates on Oklahoma City tornado... JPMorgan investors on edge over Dimon vote... Samsung passes Apple in survey... Bernanke Innovation grows economic rewards Video
May 20 (Bloomberg) -- In today's "Movers & Shakers," Bloomberg's Betty Liu highlights comments on the benefits of innovation from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's commencement speech at Bard College. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." Wichita Business Journal employee Gary Nickel received this photo from his son, Justin Nickel, who was in ...
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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