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Yahoo rejects fears hackers will exploit old user IDs
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:46pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Wednesday downplayed concerns that its plans to recycle inactive user IDs could leave users exposed to hackers, saying only 7 percent of those IDs are tied to actual Yahoo email accounts. The Internet company, which announced last week it would release user IDs that ...
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Imagen Awards nominate Chicago Fire Scandal Greys Anatomy for Latino Portrayals
Tio Papi " are among the nominees for the 28th annual Imagen Awards, which honor portrayals of Latinos and Latino culture in TV and film. Among the actors nominated by the Imagen Foundation ...
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Simons Victory is Tweet Social media helps co-ops conquer AHS bureaucracy
EDMONTON - Call it, if you like, a taste of Alberta Spring.On Tuesday, three innovative Edmonton housing co-ops won a huge political and moral victory when they compelled the Alberta government and Alberta Health Services to reverse plans to privatize home care for their disabled residents.The plan would have forced the three self-administered, not-for-profit co-ops to fire all their dedicated ...
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Gillian Shaw Twitter opening ‘global centre of excellence’ in Vancouver
Twitter is hiring computer science graduates for a "global centre of excellence" the social networking company is opening in Vancouver. ...
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Rape charges brought against three Navy football players
Three U.S. Naval Academy football players Wednesday were charged with raping a female midshipman and lying in an official statement. The suspects' names were not made public by academy officials, The Washington Post reported. Their names won't be released officially until a preliminary hearing expected to take place this summer, military law experts told the newspaper. The female ...
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How to hide your data from the NSA
>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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Facebook fans name Busch Gardens lion cub sisters
TAMPA -- Busch Gardens recently welcomed three lion cubs to the park, a boy and three girls. After a weeklong poll, 6,000 Busch Gardens Tampa Facebook fans voted to name the two lion cub sisters. The winning names for the three-month-old cubs are Shaba, meaning "brazen", and Shtuko, meaning "twitch." The Busch Gardens animal care team has started introducing the cubs ...
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NBA star turns to Twitter to sells his bulldog
He tweeted Tuesday: "Hey I have a English bulldog and he to big to be around my youngest child he 10 months got his papers and he got a micro ...
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Brands Can Use Images in Facebook Comments Too
What's more, brands are going to be able to respond to consumers' Facebook comments with images of their own, per a source close to the ...
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Baseball Legend Vin Scully Pinch Hits on Twitter
Long before the Internet and ESPN put every pitch and hit in your face and at your fingertips, Vin Scully's voice was the tenor of American baseball. For decades, beginning with the team's early days in Brooklyn, he gave radio listeners and TV audiences the play-by-play as the L.A. Dodgers tried to best other senior circuit ...
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Twitter Snags Local Social Discovery Firm Spindle
"We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: 'What’s happening nearby right now?' Every time we’ve experimented and looked beyond local discovery, we’ve been amazed by the breadth and quality of content shared on Twitter. By joining forces with Twitter, we can do so much more to help you find interesting, ...
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Sources say Samsung may have declined to produce the next Facebook phone
solid device, but it didn't sell well despite (or because of?) its inclusion of Facebook Home right out of the box. It looks like Samsung has been paying attention because, as ...
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Modi most popular leader on social media Study
thrice as many mentions as Rahul Gandhi. The BJP leader was cited over 10 lakh times. However, in percentage terms, Rahul Gandhi's share of demographics between 18-34 years was marginally ahead of Modi. While Modi led the pack in overall reach, he had the lowest reach per author, according to the report. DMK leader M Karunanidhi scored the highest on that front. The graphs in the report ...
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Facebook stock jumps in three seconds Nanex
+0.41% stock jumped almost a dollar a share in three seconds Wednesday afternoon, according to Eric Hunsader, CEO of Nanex, a provider of real-time data to traders. In the three seconds starting at 3:33:54 p.m., the social networking company's stock increased from $24.40 a share to $25.19 a share, before quickly dropping back down to $24.40 a share. There were 2 million shares traded in ...
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Twitter Acquires Mobile App Spindle
We've spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: "What's happening nearby right now?" Every time we've experimented and looked beyond local discovery, we've been amazed by the breadth and quality of content shared on Twitter. By joining forces with Twitter, we can do so much more to help you find interesting, timely, ...
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Twitter acquires Spindle and shows more interest in local discovery
acquired Spindle, a mobile application for learning about what's happening nearby, the companies announced Wednesday. "We've spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: 'What's happening nearby right now?'," the startup said in a blog ...
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Facebook weaves new network fabric
(Credit: Facebook) Facebook has a communication problem. The apps are talking the network but with limited context and bottlenecks inside its data centers. Now, the social network is planning to improve the communication with a new networking fabric to serve its 1.1 billion users. "Networking is built around ISP networks and protocols for interconnecting of ISP networks. It's not ...
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Greenpeace says photos show Iceland has resumed whale hunts
Photographs show Iceland has broken a two-year ban on whale hunting, the environmental group Greenpeace charged Wednesday. "We've just received anonymous photographs showing Iceland has broken the moratorium on commercial whaling, again," Greenpeace said in a Twitter message. The group urged people to share the images "to help expose Iceland's bloody secret." The ...
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Cameroon limits social media services
The government of Cameroon has ordered mobile operator MTN to suspend an SMS service that had proven a powerful tool for protest movements in North ...
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Twitter users surrender accounts for Tourette awareness
The Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada is asking people to give up control over their personal Twitter accounts for 24 hours so that they can experience what it feels like to have involuntary verbal and physical tics associated with the syndrome. "Imagine if you Tweeted something embarrassing, offensive, or just plain weird - and you had no control over it," reads ...
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Google Fights U.S. Government Over FISA Order Data
Google has filed a legal challenge to the U.S. government, demanding the right to reveal more information on the data requests it receives in the latest twist in ...
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Google Officially Launches Local Results Carousel
. While the carousel has been used on tablet devices since December 2012, the carousel style results being available on a desktop is a much newer change. With the new style of carousel listings, when a user searches for a local results, such as a restaurant or hotel, instead of the traditional vertical listings most users associate with Google search, there is now a horizontal carousel which ...
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Facebook Rolls Out Updates To Page Insights
Facebook announced today that it is inviting more Pages to provide feedback on recent updates it has made to Page Insights. ';These updates, aimed at helping marketers/Page admins better develop content and reach people on Facebook, improve the way we organize and report fundamental insights for Pages,'; a Facebook spokesperson tells WebProNews. They do this, Facebook says, by making ...
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Facebook Now Has 1 Million Advertisers
A vast majority of these are small business owners, who often grow their local base via individual accounts and pages before becoming advertisers. The number of small businesses with Facebook pages is around 16 ...
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Mosquito invasion strikes Alaska as state runs low of control supplies
A severe mosquito invasion in south-central Alaska has led to a run on mosquito control products in local stores, Anchorage retailers reported. Although anecdotal evidence abounds about the severity and size of the state's summer mosquito population every year, "mosquito populations are fairly high everywhere," said Janice Chumley of the Kenai Peninsula District office of the ...
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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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