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Another Peak Facebook Prediction
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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In this weeks issue Jumping into action
Its impossible not to smile when you see Photo Editor Randy Siners cover image for the May 24 print edition of Albuquerque Business First. Its impossible not to smile when you see Photo Editor Randy Siners cover image for the May 24 print edition of Albuquerque Business First. The photo is of NDI New Mexico, our Education category winner in the Nonprofit of the Year awards. In the image, seven ...
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ITV News Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
LONDON (Reuters) - Broadcaster ITV on Friday became the latest media outlet to have one of its Twitter feeds hacked by anonymous supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, just days after Twitter beefed up security to prevent ...
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JELL-O Turns An Internet Profanity Into Twitter Fun
profane exclamation/meme that roughly translates to: Gee, what an unfortunate place I've come to at this particular point in my life." Instead, think "Fun My Life." Via a new campaign from CP+B, the dessert brand is asking the confounded to tweet @Jello about exactly what kind of ...
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Facebook brand design lead departs for startup
Paul Adams/Facebook ) Paul Adams, Facebook's global head of brand design, announced Friday that he has left the social network to join startup Intercom, which makes a social customer relationship management ...
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Aveo partner will not seek European approval for kidney cancer drug
Tuan Ha-Ngoc, president and CEO, Aveo Oncology Aveo Oncology (Nasdaq:AVEO) remained quiet Friday after the news that its partner to commercialize its potential drug for kidney cancer is giving up plans to seek approval for the drug in Europe, and wont pay for further trials. Shares in Aveo opened Friday down 17 percent, but by noon, had risen to $2.58 a share, about 4 percent below Thursdays ...
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Peabody taps analytics app to track worker productivity
Greg Boyce Peabody Energy has added a business intelligence platform at its Bear Run Mine in Sullivan County, Ind., to track when employees start working during shifts and how long they are gone during lunch breaks. The technology, which runs mostly on Walldorf, Germany-based SAPs BusinessObjects software, tracks employees late starts (measured by when the bucket of a shovel, excavator or ...
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Why you should use Twitters enhanced security measures
Do you use two-factor authentication with your Twitter account? I'm not a super geek. I didn't know what two-factor authentication was before I wrote a story about how security company executives approach their online security. But after I interviewed those folks for that story, I sure did two-factor authenticate my gmail account. It was fear, mostly. There were the well-publicized ...
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STFU Parents Targets Social Media Overshare
Welcome to the world of overshare. In her new book "STFU Parents," Blair Koenig expands on her 4-year-old blog of the same name, which is dedicated to the "jaw-dropping, self-indulgent and occasionally rage-inducing world of parent overshare." There's the mother who describes her placenta smoothie – which "tastes like heaven," in case you were wondering. ...
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Security Twitteratti Twitters 2FA does sweet FA for biz
Security-watchers don't appear overly impressed with Twitter's introduction of two-factor authentication (2FA) to its service. While some infosec experts welcomed the move, others argued that while it might help protect the accounts of individuals, it is ill-suited to the safeguarding of shared accounts of organisations - many of which have fallen victim to recent hijacking ...
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Roger Federer takes flight joins Twitter
Roger Federer is finally on Twitter.The owner of a record 17 Grand Slam titles says Friday he waited to join the social media site until after seeing how other athletes used it.Speaking at the French Open, which begins Sunday, Federer says: "At the end of the day, it's got to be something I needed to feel comfortable ...
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How tweet it is Federer gets around to Twitter
Yes, tennis fans, Roger Federer is finally on Twitter.The owner of a record 17 Grand Slam titles says Friday he waited to join the social media site until after seeing how other athletes used it.Speaking at the French Open, which begins Sunday, Federer says: "At the end of the day, it's got to be something I needed to feel comfortable with."He accrued more than 150,000 followers ...
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Court rules Bercow libelled McAlpine on Twitter
A tweet by British House of Commons Speaker's wife Sally Bercow about Tory peer Robert McAlpine was libellous, Britain’s High Court has ruled. The posting appeared two days after a November 2012 Newsnight report wrongly implicated the former Conservative Party treasurer in allegations of sex abuse at Bryn Estyn children's home in the 1970s and 1980s. Mrs Bercow has always ...
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Next-gen networks next-gen apps
transform how we experience everything, from clean energy and education, to transportation and healthcare. The non-profit organisation is looking to develop 60 transformative apps based on things people cannot do today and to make sure government and communities work together to ensure digital experience app concepts become a reality. Ricart predicts several changes in the market will promote ...
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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 ...
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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