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Online dictionary to transform translation
Kamusi GOLD (Global Online Living Dictionary), an online dictionary with a difference. Rather than just providing definitions of words in every language, Kamusi ('dictionary' in Swahili) matches these definitions to similar ideas and concepts in all other languages. Founder and executive director Martin Benjamin came up with the idea for Kamusi while researching development issues in ...
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Social media report with care
Former Eyewitness News reporter and news anchor, Andrea van Wyk, says social media is a useful tool for tip-offs but should be used with extreme care. Research by global public relations group ECCO International ...
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Twitter libel Sally Bercow settles with Tory peer Lord McAlpine over libellous tweet
The tweet - which read: "Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *Innocent face*" - appeared in November, two days after the BBC's Newsnight wrongly implicated the former Conservative Party treasurer in sex abuse ...
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Federer finally takes to Twitter
Federer, who can boast more than 12 million likes on his Facebook page, finally signed up for the social media site late Thursday and had over 72,000 followers by Friday ...
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The Truth About Kids And Social Media
According to a recent study, 78% of parents helped create their children's Facebook pages, and 7.5 million users are under the age of 13. The way your kids use social today will shape their future. It's time for everyone to get educated on how--and how not--to live ...
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Frances Bean Cobain slams Kendall Jenner on Twitter
Frances Bean Cobain, the 20-year-old daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, made an unlikely target out of Kendall Jenner, the 17-year-old half-sister to Kim Kardashian, over Twitter on Tuesday. It all started when Jenner sent out ...
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Ex-Googler Ben Ling joins friend Keith Rabois at Khosla
Former Googler and active angel investor Ben Ling has joined Khosla Ventures. Khosla Ventures has landed another high profile Silicon Valley tech exec an angel investor with the addition of Ben Ling to the firm. Ling most recently Ben was chief operating officer at Badoo, the London-based social networking site that helps users meet new people in their area. Before that he was with Google, ...
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Zappix rolls out app to aid Oklahoma tornado survivors
Just one month after Zappix rolled out an application to aid in the collection of donations for Boston Marathon bombing victims, its done it again for those in Oklahoma who were left homeless after recent tornadoes smacked the state, leaving behind a path of devastation. The Israeli-based mobile portal and customer service app company, which recently opened its U.S. headquarters in Burlington, ...
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Facebook phone not coming to Europe
Facebook Home which replaces the standard Android screens with its own social media interface. Home has been available for download to other Android devices too but hasn't proved popular with users. UK mobile ...
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Skyword names former iProspect exec as president
Former iProspect exec, Robert J. Murray has been named president at Skyword. Skyword, a Boston marketing firm that creates content for the Web and aims to eventually go public, has created the position of president and named a former global president of iProspect to fill it. On Friday morning the company named Robert Murray as president. At Boston-based iProspect, which was acquired last month ...
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Twitter SMS authentication security won’t stop attacks say experts
Twitter’s long overdue rollout of two-factor authentication doesn’t plug every angle of attack and won’t guarantee that customer accounts aren’t compromised in future, experts have warned. Twitter introduced ...
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Dothan board weighs officers Facebook posts
DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) -- The Dothan Personnel Board expects to take a few weeks to decide what could be a landmark case involving the use of social media by ...
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One Direction sweeps awards for most popular social media stars
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - British boy band One Direction has swept the inaugural awards recognizing the most popular people in social media globally, coming top in four out of 10 categories at a star-studded ceremony in ...
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The number of startup events might be too damn high
Philippe Chetrit, former chief of Tixelated and Affinity Lab The inevitable backlash to the rise of D.C. tech meetup culture has kicked in. Part of the community is beginning to ask if maybe, possibly, we might be going to a few too many events. If he or she is so inclined, a founder can find a startup-oriented gathering or two almost every day, at the very least, several times a week. ...
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Google Facebook may battle for Waze
Bloomberg reports Waze is looking for bids of more than $1 billion for the company, but it may also stay independent and seek a new round of venture funding. Reports earlier this month said Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) was in talks for an acquisition in a deal worth as much as $1 billion. Apparently Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and other tech companies have also approached the ...
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Xbox found not to infringe Google patent
Bloomberg reports . The ruling ends a case that was filed in November 2010 and an upholds a March ruling. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) obtained the patent when it bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in a deal that closed last year. The case is part of a global patent war between Google and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Microsoft is seeking royalties on smart phones that use Google's Android ...
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Google facing display ad probe by FTC
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has started a probe into complaints that Google Inc. abused its power in the market for online display and video ...
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Apple doubling lobbying spending this year
Apple Inc. may have a much smaller presence in Washington than other companies of its size, but could double its lobbying spending in 2013. Apple Inc. may have a much smaller presence in Washington than other companies of its size, but could double its lobbying spending in 2013. Reuters reports that Apple spent about $2 million on lobbying in 2012, and is "on pace to nearly double last ...
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Vaxess lands first tranche of $4M round
Last year, the founders of Vaxess Technologies - including Michael Schrader, Livio Valenti, Kathryn Kosuda, and Patrick Ho- won Harvard University President's Challenge. Newly-launched Vaxess Technologies Inc., a life sciences company developing vaccine stabilization technology, has closed the first tranche of a $3.75 million Series A round of financing. Norwich Ventures led the round, which ...
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Yahoos design head Parsey leaving
Yahoo Inc.'s SVP of User Experience Design Tim Parsey is leaving the company, but it has not been disclosed where he is going. Yahoo Inc.'s SVP of User Experience Design Tim Parsey is leaving the company, but it has not been disclosed where he is going. Parsey has been with Yahoo since early 2011 and "stabilized the design culture" at the company during that time, according to ...
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Federal Court Judge Warwick Neville orders investigation into fathers Facebook posts
DIVORCING parents who use the "insidious features" of social media as a weapon will put at risk their custody arrangements and settlements and could even face prison, legal experts warn. In a federal court divorce case, Judge Warwick Neville has ordered that a marshal of the court investigate and monitor a father's Facebook posts for possible infringements of the Family Law Act. The ...
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Ecommerce Title Tags Top 5 Ways to Increase Clicks
title tags , the most important of all SEO attributes. What’s often highlighted are the dos and don’ts in terms of syntax. From a pure conversion and marketing perspective, however, there is a lot of additional value to be squeezed out of title tags. Ecommerce businesses have already begun to differentiate themselves within the search engine results pages to steal more clicks from ...
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Vin Diesel and Conan Talk Facebook Stardom Fan Art
Actor Vin Diesel is quite popular on Facebook, and not in a ';he’s famous so he has a few million likes'; sort of way. We’re talking social media superstar here, a real influencer. The guy has 7 million more ...
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Google is latest rumored to be mapping a Waze deal
Google is the latest potential suitor reported to be considering making a big offer to buy Palo Alto crowd-sourced traffic app developer Waze, headed by CEO Noam Bardin. First Apple. Then Facebook. Now Google. Maybe somebody will finally find their Waze. But months of speculation has brought no deal yet for the Palo Alto crowd-sourced mobile traffic app developer. Bloomberg cited unnamed sources ...
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Motorola Mobility loses Xbox patent fight Video
May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Television's Cory Johnson gets an exclusive inside look at how Microsoft designed and tested the new Xbox. (Source: Bloomberg) Members of the media take photos and shoot video at the unveiling for Microsoft Corp.'s first new Xbox in almost eight years. Microsofts Xbox 360 has been cleared of violating a Motorola Mobility patent by the International Trade ...
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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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