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Nuance analysts cheered by Icahns growing clout
On the heels of a dismal quarter plagued by poor execution and a spike in operating costs, Nuance Communications received yet another wake-up call earlier this month when it was disclosed that activist investor Carl Icahn has added to his ownership stake in the company. While some analysts have since suggested that a little shareholder activism is exactly what the Burlington-based company needs ...
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City tech job commutes that compute
Nicholas Reid used to have a horrible commute. Every morning, the Society Hill resident bicycled to a SEPTA station, took a train to Wilmington and then biked to the headquarters of SevOne, where he directs product management and design. Then, every night, he reversed the process. It was a 20-mile bike ride in total, Reid said. Now, Reids commute is a 10-minute walk. Thats because SevOne, which ...
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CEO File Tim McLaughlin
Tim McLaughlin CEO Intuitive Company on a custom made staircase in it self-designed studio in the historic Waterworks building in Manayunk. PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Tim McLaughlin. Age: 38. Title: Principal, relationship strategy. Company: Intuitive ...
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Software startup scripts the art of the deal
Michael Halper of SalesScripter LLC Michael Halper knows its not easy being in sales not all salespeople are born with the ability to sell the shirt off their own back. He has, however, developed a software tool designed to give some salespeople a leg up. In 2012, Halper founded SalesScripter LLC, a Web-based software application that helps sales professionals create and manage scripts for ...
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Peak Facebook British users lose their Liking for Zucks ad empire
Facebook's popularity is slumping in the UK as users become fed up with being bombarded with advertising, a YouGov survey has revealed. In a report examining social media use among web-savvy Brits, the market research firm found a 9 per cent drop in Facebook usage since April ...
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Russian regulator blacklists social media site VK
The future of Russia's biggest social media site was thrown into a state of flux Friday after the country's communications regulator moved to shut it down.The site, VKontakte, is similar to Facebook and has roughly 200 million registered users. On Friday a notice on the website of Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass ...
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TV-related tweets may attract ads with new Twitter campaign
A new advertising method from Twitter will watch for tweets from you about certain TV shows and allow those shows' advertisers to target you. Of course, you can always ignore their tweets the way you ignored their commercials.The new way to target ads was described ...
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CIPC vows to resolve backlogs
CIPC commissioner Astrid Ludin says system problems have created some backlogs, but nothing that will take the commission long to resolve. The backlogs created by technical problems with its IT system will not take long to resolve, says the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC). The CIPC has also denied reports that a backlog in company registrations exists, but admits to a ...
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Five ways to avoid bill shock
Bill shock is on the increase as smartphone use in SA surges. Unexpectedly exorbitant cellphone bills are increasingly being reported as smartphone penetration grows in SA. Telecommunications service provider Nashua Mobile says these bills are mostly caused by the automatic downloading of data. "This can be expensive on home turf, but if you're abroad, it can turn an enjoyable trip ...
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Long walk to spectrum
A policy finally paving the way for more spectrum allocation will go to Cabinet next month. Several years after government first mooted spectrum allocation in high-demand frequencies, the industry is still waiting for action. ITWeb has compiled a timeline of the process so ...
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Google considers Waze purchase
Google is considering buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze, which may lead to a bidding war with Facebook, Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Waze is seeking more than $1 billion and is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties, said Bloomberg, citing a ...
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Fujitsu Pan-European Retail Survey 2013 The store will remain the hub for engaging with connected customers
News facts: * Fujitsu shares findings of survey with European retail senior managers on the future of stores in a multichannel environment * Sixty-five percent of European retailers interviewed believe the importance of stores is rising, despite the fact that online shopping is considered the most attractive distribution model today * When rating the importance of distribution models for the ...
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Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
Facebook on May 23 established Open Compute Project (OCP) Taiwan in a bid to attract Taiwan-based hardware makers and promote industry standards for cloud computing data center equipment, according to the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). ITRI said it is talking with Facebook about setting up the world's first OCP hardware certification laboratory in ...
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Yahoo agrees deal to buy Tumblr
American internet corporation Yahoo! is to acquire the popular blogging service Tumblr in a deal worth 723m. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!'s chief executive, said that Tumblr would continue to operate independently after the site's bosses ...
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Australias politicians look to master social media strategies in time for federal election
Australia As the federal election sweeps closer, the pressure to sell the politicians and their parties is intensifying - and the strategists are turning to digital technologies like never before to give candidates an edge.The huge growth in social media and data analytics over the past three years means this election campaign will be like no other in Australian history. But Australian ...
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‘Russia’s Facebook’ Put on Internet Blacklist by Mistake
MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Vkontakte, Russia's biggest social networking site, was put on a state registry of blacklisted websites by mistake earlier today, a spokesman forRussia's telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor said."This was a mistake. Our employee put a tick in the wrong place," said Vladimir Pikov, as reported by Digit.ru. "We will remove VKontakte from the ...
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Moderate earthquake rattles Northern California
A moderate earthquake shook a remotely populated area in the Sierras in Northern California late Thursday. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake was 5.7 on the Richter scale. That is severe enough to be felt across a wide area and to do considerable damage to poorly designed buildings but unlikely to cause major casualties. The quake at 8:47 p.m. was reported to be centered about 7 ...
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Malaysian police arrest opposition leaders
Malaysia's deputy prime minister said there was no government interference in the case and arrest of three opposition leaders and an activist this ...
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Skagit River Bridge collapse Who to follow what to watch on Twitter
Since news broke Thursday night of the Skagit River bridge collapse that took out both the northbound and southbound lanes of I-5 in Mount Vernon, Wash., many people have turned to Twitter to get updates as soon as theyre available. Early reports indicate people are being transported to the hospital after cars fell into the river. The Coast Guard reportedly deployed search and rescue boats. The ...
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Taser CEO Rick Smith sees bump in pay to $898K
Rick Smith Taser International Inc. CEO Rick Smith more than tripled his pay in 2012, but the leader of the high-tech stun-gun manufacturer still has yet to collect more than $1 million in annual compensation. Smith earned compensation totaling $898,801 last year, a huge increase from the $276,344 earned during 2011. Much of that was due to stock awards and incentive pay as Scottsdale-based ...
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ATT tacks 61 cent administrative fee on wireless customers bills
AT&T has added a 61 cent administrative fee to the bills of its contract wireless customers. In a move that could result an additional half-billion dollars in revenue a year, Dallas-based AT&T announced that it has added a new month 61 cent administrative fee to its wireless contract customers. The fee went into effect on May 1, the Wall Street Journal reported. The charge is a so-called ...
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ViaWest plans big Minnesota data center
ViaWest logo ViaWest is expanding to Minnesota, building its first data center there in coming months and opening the first part of it in early 2014. The Greenwood Village-based data center company bought 28 acres in the Minneapolis area and has designed a 150,000-square-foot data center to house and manage clients computer servers or host their cloud computing services. Demand within our hybrid ...
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Google Facebook mull rival bids for Waze report
-0.39% for Israeli mobile-app developer Waze Inc., according to an anonymously sourced Bloomberg News report late Thursday. Earlier news reports had tipped Facebook as conducting advanced talks to buy Waze for between $800 million and $1 billion. The Bloomberg report said Waze was seeking more than $1 billion from Google, and may decide to stay independent and raise financing instead. Waze, ...
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Corrections officials investigating Facebook Instagram pictures
An Instagram picture from user hehasnochill that claims to have been taken inside the Baltimore City Detention Center. The original caption reads: "In my cell and guess what? Im still the heart of the streetswestside what's ...
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Google like Facebook in talks to buy Waze for about US$1bil
, Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Waze is seeking more than $1 billion and is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties, said Bloomberg, citing a source. Other media have reported that Facebook Inc has held talks to buy Waze for as much as $1 ...
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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