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CORRECTED-FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan Amazon builds a grocery business
Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:29pm EDT (Corrects to remove reference to Mark Zaleski in paragraph 18) By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001. Twelve years ...
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DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal
NSA PRISM surveillance program in the United States, many people have become much more concerned about what exactly search engines are tracking about them. Although Google, Bing, and Yahoo have stringent privacy policies, there have been enough people worried that they have begun looking at alternative search engines, particularly so-called "private search ...
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Naked gymnast faces charges over San Francisco transit stop antics
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A trained gymnast whose naked acrobatics and harassment of passengers at a San Francisco public transit station were captured on video and circulated widely on the Internet is facing criminal charges over his antics, authorities said on ...
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Tech Stocks H-P Intel boost Dow Facebook rises
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Technology stocks were modestly higher Tuesday, lifted by gains in shares of Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp. and Facebook ...
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Taylor Swift’s Feminist Twitter Account Blows Up
Taylor Swift has taken some flack from feminists in the past for her rather romantic songwriting, but now she’s getting a very different sort of attention. The singer/songwriter is the focus of a parody account ...
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Facebook Did Not Intentionally Block Tor
Tor has become a tool of free expression in parts of the world where citizens can not speak freely against their government. Many use the anonymous Web network to share information and updates with the rest of the world via social networks like Facebook and Twitter. What happens then when one of those social networks blocks Tor? That very question arose today when Tor users found that they ...
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How to hide your data from Internet snoops
>Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow his updates on Twitter or add him to your Circles on Google+.(CNN) -- Let's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. But having concerns about NSA cybersnooping doesn't mean we must surrender all privacy -- what's left of it -- in our day-to-day online ...
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Tor users locked out of Facebook after wave of dodgy traffic
Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery Users of the Tor traffic anonymizing service are currently locked out of Facebook after a flood of dodgy traffic triggered an automatic lockdown by the social network's security systems. Given the paranoid post-PRISM times we live, in the outage on Tuesday caused a certain amount of online panic. A report ...
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Facebook Organ Donor Initiative Sets Record Rates For New Donors
leave users feeling both good and bad about themselves, researchers recently reported Facebook can also make users more generous with their internal organs. A new study by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found when users were allowed to broadcast their organ donor status, new donor registration increased 21-fold. These results are published in ...
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EXCLUSIVE-Facebook reaches 1 million active advertisers
By Jennifer Saba June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:29pm EDT June 18 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue growth. A vast majority of those advertisers are small business owners who have flocked to the world's No. 1 social ...
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Mark Zuckerberg Talks Facebook With Samsung
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 conference on September 11, 2012 in San Francisco, in his first public interview since the massive public offering on May 18 that was hotly anticipated but ended up being a flop. Facebook is not building its own mobile phone, despite some reports to the contrary, Zuckerberg said, adding the phone would be ...
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Facebook Kills Sponsored Search Results
Inside Facebook revealed sponsored search results were among the features to be cut. "In keeping with the goal of streamlining our ad products, starting in July advertisers will no longer be able to buy sponsored results," Facebook told Inside Facebook. "We’ve seen that most marketers were buying sponsored results to advertise their apps and games, and we already offer ...
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WikiLeaks trial focuses on whether Tweets meet evidence standards
FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The court-martial of the U.S. soldier accused of providing reams of classified documents to WikiLeaks in a case illustrating the challenge of keeping secrets in the digital age must decide whether tweets and Web pages can be admitted as ...
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Oceanside Chamber gets spotlight for being ‘Social Media Friendly’
OCEANSIDE -; David Nydegger, president and C.E.O. of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce, recently announced that the Oceanside Chamber has been recognized as one of ...
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Taylor Swift Twitter Parody Puts Feminist Spin on Lyrics
FeministTaylorSwift appeared on Twitter, but it's already racked up more 85,000 followers with its stream of endlessly clever feminist tweaks on the country-pop superstar's lyrics. The account even garnered an all caps shout out ...
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Amazon Makes Your Boring Facebook Birthday Posts Worth Something
Facebook birthday greetings are the lowest level of well wishing. Or maybe they used to be. Now you can boost this laziest salutation with something that’s not just tangible, but actually pretty solid: an Amazon gift card. Amazon is hoping to capitalize on your inability to go to the store, buy a card, scribble your name in said card and drop it in a mailbox with a new, aptly ...
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Google Bing Both Win More Search Market Share
release of comScore search engine rankings for the U.S. for May 2013. Google and Bing are both up, while the other top search engines comScore tracks (Yahoo, Ask, AOL) were flat or saw declines. Not surprisingly, Google led the way for search share in May, and grew its search market share to 66.7 percent, up from 66.5 percent ...
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The Times of London has built “The retweeter” to get its journalists to push its stories in social media
posted a piece this morning on one way The Times of London tried, without much success, to get its (hard-paywalled) content noticed by the non-subscribing world. The paper’s Ben ...
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GE moves into Industrial Internet service with Amazon
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday to make a wide range of data on products, including jet engines and gas turbines, available online so they can be analyzed. GE ...
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Do Stock Photos Affect Google Search Rankings Matt Cutts Says No
A new Google Webmaster help video with Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts brings up a topic that most webmasters don’t think about – whether stock photography versus original photography has any impact on search engine rankings. For those of you who are lacking in artistic skills, or just don’t have the resources to take photos related to every single webpage you produce, it ...
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Facebook seen most vulnerable in spy scandal
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- It's not surprising that Facebook Inc. moved fast to talk the federal government into letting it disclose more about the amount of data that authorities asked the social network to turn ...
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Study Allowing organ donation status on Facebook increased number of donors
American Journal of Transplantation on June 18 showed that the social network gave a 21-fold boost to the number of people who registered themselves as organ donors in a single day. The study comes at a time when ...
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Concern over high school babe Facebook page
The principals of two Dunedin high schools are worried a Facebook page asking people to nominate a high school "babe of the day'' could put pupils at risk from sexual predators. The page, set up last week, has more than 2100 "likes" and its creation comes after a proliferation of "babe of the day" Facebook pages for New Zealand universities. This includes one in Dunedin which has gained more ...
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Twitter Chat How to Have a Healthy Summer
How can you shed those final 5 pounds you put on over the summer? How can you liven up your BBQs and make tastier green smoothies? U.S. News Health discussed all this and more in a Twitter chat with registered dietitian Julieanna Hever and vegan cookbook author Dreena Burton. Here are the ...
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Yahoo says it received up to 13000 user data requests from US government agencies in 6 months
Yahoo is the latest company to disclose how many requests for user data it has received from U.S. government agencies, putting the number between 12,000 and 13,000 in the six months that ended on May 31. Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer and General Counsel Ron Bell said in a blog post late Monday that the most common requests concerned fraud homicides, kidnappings, and other criminal ...
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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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