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CapitalOneSparkVoice Social Selling In The Age Of Twitter
Our business and personal contacts are being blurred more and more as the pace of business accelerates. Cutting-edge technologies and social tools can be a company's best ally or worst enemy when it comes to building relationships in the Twitter age. We caught up with one company that's helping businesses capitalize on the serendipity of the social ...
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Is Twitter Getting Down To Business
iLoveDogs uses Promoted Tweets to optimize their dog care news for real-time events as well as longer-term planning for the holidays. With over 200 million active users and 400 million Tweets per day, Twitter is much more than the brand that ...
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Toronto mayor urged to step down if crack allegations true
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attends a gay rights flag raising event at Toronto City Hall May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Brett ...
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Health IT startup CareWire names new CEO hires former Klout exec
CareWire, a startup that's a developed a text messaging service for health providers, has named former health care consultant Ken Saitow president and CEO. The Excelsior-based company also has hired Phil Hotchkiss, a Twin Cities serial entrepreneur who most recently was chief product officer at Klout, to serve as executive vice president and chief product officer. Saitow was previously ...
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Man Taunts Police on Facebook Says ‘Catch Me If U Can’ Promptly Arrested
It takes a special kind of idiot criminal to talk about their crimes on Facebook. We’ve seen plenty of that since the advent and expansion of Facebook. It takes a whole other kind of idiot to taunt police on Facebook when you’re a wanted fugitive. And I’m not sure what it makes you when you taunt ...
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Sprint Handmark Clearwire acquisitions are mutually exclusive
Sprint Nextel Corp. has clocked yet another acquisition, as if the wireless carrier doesn't have enough merger activity going on this year. On Monday, Overland Park-based Sprint (NYSE: S) revealed it had bought Kansas City-based Handmark Inc. and spinoff app developer firm OneLouder Apps. Inc. to help ramp up its mobile advertising and targeting services. The news came on the heels of ...
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Virgin America goes big for first nerd bird flight
Virgin America Inc. is rolling out the red carpet, boarding celebrities and an Austin band, and even launching a water cannon salute upon arrival for its first nonstop flight from Silicon Valley to Silicon Hills. The airline's first "nerd bird" flight from San Francisco International Airport to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport lands in the Capital City at 3:35 p.m. tomorrow. ...
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Social Medias Biggest Turn Offs
According to the social media gurus at SocialToaster in Baltimore, here are some surefire ways to lose followers on your social networking ...
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For Public Schools Twitter Is No Longer Optional
the owner of Allerton Hill Consulting, a leader in communications & marketing for schools and public entities. Public schools are keenly aware of the power of the mainstream media; a critical television segment or a laudatory newspaper article will be talked about in the hallways for days. But the landscape has shifted, and school leaders must embrace a new, growing reality: social media ...
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Man in Puerto Rico arrested by FBI after sending Twitter threat
A man has been arrested in Puerto Rico for a Twitter post that threatened a gay activist and made a reference to the Boston Marathon bombing, the FBI said ...
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Relevant and Personalized Tweets Now a Part of Yahoo Newsfeed
#bestoftheweb , and says it will "seamlessly include relevant and personalized Tweets alongside stories from Yahoo! and our other sources." Here’s what the integration will look like in the Yahoo newsfeed: From the screenshot, we can see users can interact with tweets just as they would on Twitter, by retweeting, making them favorites and more. If you’re not already ...
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Social media spotlight Schottenstein Real Estate Group
Brian Schottenstein explains the importance of social media to Schottenstein Real Estate Group. From event caterers and salons to clothing retailers and social media consultants, companies of all shapes and sizes are recognizing the importance of connecting with potential and current customers in the online world. As part of our ongoing social media spotlight, Brian Schottenstein, vice president ...
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Vista Equity Partners buys Websense for $1 billion
Vista Equity Partners agreed to buy San Diego cyber attack protection company Websense Inc. for about $1 billion. Austin-based Vista, led by CEO Robert Smith, closed a $3.5 billion acquisition fund a year ago this week. The 50-person firm has offices in Chicago and on California Street in San Francisco's financial district. In this deal, Vista will pay $24.75 in cash per share for Websense ...
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Three Chicago Teens Charged as Adults for Rape of Minor Posting Video on Facebook
Three Chicago teens were charged as adults for the aggravated sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl and posting the video to Facebook. The attack happened last year, but the boys were just now sentenced for their ...
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Bekwai “Facebook Group” Supports Orphanage
A group of five young graduates and natives from Bekwai has presented a number of items to the Save Our Life Orphanage at Anwiankwanta near Bekwai, as their widow's mite towards the upkeep of the inmates. The donors are also members of the Amansie Facebook Group and the Bekwai campus of the Face Book University. The items worth GH200 included rice, cooking oil, toiletries, sachets of ...
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12-Year-Old Girl Raped Video Posted to Facebook by Alleged Attackers
Did three Chicago youth attack and rape a young girl and then videotape it for the world to see? That's what prosecutors in Illinois are ...
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Indian policeman says 23 fake Facebook profiles opened in his name
A police officer in India says 23 fake Facebook profiles were created in his name by persons unknown and they have been flooded with marriage requests. The officer, Shivdeep Waman Lande, who is currently posted as aide-de-camp to the Bihar governor, filed a formal complaint with the office of senior superintendent of police in Patna Manu Maharaj Saturday, Gulf News reported. "I was ...
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Dollar Bank upgrading ATMs
Dollar Bank, Pittsburghs fifth largest financial institution, is upgrading its ATM fleet footprint-wide to work faster and smarter. Senior Vice President Joe Smith confirmed that Dollar has ordered 60 new machines providing automated deposit technology from NCR Corp., based in Duluth, Ga. I call it smart deposit design, Smith said. The replacement process will begin this summer, NCR said. Smith ...
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Canada pitches startups with lower taxes instant residency
Canada's new immigration-centric pitch to Silicon Valley's many foreign-born entrepreneurs. Canada is pitching Silicon Valley entrepreneurs on northern migration. The gist: Easier access to visas for foreign-born entrepreneurs, a growing base of engineering talent, R&D tax credits and lower corporate taxes. Low-tax U.S. states like Arizona, Nevada and Washington have pitched financial ...
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Think federal agencies have too much power The Supremes just gave them more
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the Federal Communications Commission when localities, led by Arlington, Texas, challenged the agency's authority to set deadlines for wireless facility applications. Federal regulatory agencies won a victory when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the Federal Communications Commission could establish deadlines for local cellphone tower siting ...
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Synageva gets breakthrough designation for candidate aimed at Wolman disease
Sanj K. Patel, president and CEO, Synageva Biopharma A drug candidate being developed by Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Nasdaq:GEVA) to treat Wolman disease, a rare inherited disease that can kill infants in their first six months of life, has been designated a breakthrough therapy by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The Lexington, Mass. biopharmaceutical company said the designation - which ...
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Online takeout companies GrubHub and Seamless to merge
By Sarah McBrideSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two of the nation's biggest online food delivery businesses said they are merging in a deal that they hope will drive more orders, in more cities, through their platforms.GrubHub and Seamless, which allow consumers to easily order online from various restaurants, are part of a group of fast-growing businesses that standardize local services under a ...
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Hunger Striker Launches Twitter Campaign to Close Gitmo
Petitions have failed. Lawsuits have failed. Even campaign pledges from future presidents have failed. So now one Guantanamo Bay detainee is hoping that Twitter can help him shut down the infamous detention facility. Shaker Aamer, a Saudi citizen and former British resident, is one of 103 Guantanamo detainees currently on ...
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Google News Snippets YouTube Embedded Videos Face Legal Challenges in Germany
Webmasters will need to be much more careful about quoting content from online German publications after a new online copyright law comes into effect in Germany on August 1. The law, which targets search engines that provide snippets, originally would have given news sites the ability to seek monetary compensation for the supposed lost revenue caused by Google and other search engines when ...
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Twitter and Kiwi athletes Making a hashtag of it
Piri Weepu has heard variations of insults since signing up to Twitter in 2009. Photo / Michael CunninghamOn the evening of Anzac Day, Jesse Ryder settled in to watch his beloved Melbourne Storm beat the Warriors when his phone buzzed to life. "no wonder u got a hiding you c***. go the warriors you f'n ...
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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