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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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Twitter links ads to TV programs
Linking promoted tweets with TV content would give Twitter a new way to tap into what remains the largest ad spending category television advertising. Taking advantage of the fact that large numbers of people love to tweet about television programs they are watching, Twitter Inc. is testing targeted ads linked to the TV ads its users likely see, according to the San Francisco Business Times. It ...
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BizNext 7 things you need to know 05.24.13
St. Louisans will celebrate the National Day of Civic Hacking with Random Hacks of Kindness Saint Louis, a weekend hackathon June 1-2 at the T-Rex that encourages community involvement for the betterment of St. Louis. The Password Protection Act, a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday, would make it illegal for employers or potential employers to ask for you social ...
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Kansas City Business Journal announces CFO of the Year honorees
The recession has made for rough sailing for many businesses over the past few years, but some have had exceptional CFOs to help steer them through it. Those are the executives the Kansas City Business Journal will recognize as CFO of the Year. The awards program, now in its sixth year, honors the Kansas City area's top financial executives. Applicants were judged for their contributions to ...
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Social Media Matters Amys Baking a lesson in what not to do
Amys Baking Co., a bakery and bistro in Scottsdale, Ariz., received quite a bit of attention on countless social media platforms and in the media recently and not for good reasons. The resulting word-of-mouth firestorm was enough to fill, well, this column with social media, crisis communications and plain ol business lessons. Mass media like TV can amplify and broadcast your business problem. ...
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SoftBank Dish continue to wrangle for Sprint Clearwire
The four-player mess Sprint Nextel Corp., SoftBank Corp., Clearwire Corp. and Dish Network Corp. thats been dominating wireless news lately hasnt let up as the parties continue to wrangle for control of one or the other. Sprint (NYSE: S) recently sweetened its offer for Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR) by 14 percent in its best and final offer, but that has failed to sway opponents, raising ...
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Taser CEO sees big bump in pay
Rick Smith saw a bump in pay in 2012. Taser International Inc. CEO Rick Smithmore than tripled his pay in 2012, but the leader of the high-tech stun-gun manufacturer still has yet to collect more than $1 million in annual compensation. Smith earned compensation totaling $898,801 last year, a huge increase from the $276,344 earned during 2011. Much of that was due to stock awards and incentive ...
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Tech roundup Google inquiry iPhone urinalysis the Amazon paradigm
Get caught up on the days biggest tech news: The feds have cranked up a new antitrust investigation into how Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) handles its advertising sales, Reuters reports. Google seems to be following the lead of online e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), getting into the business of selling industrial and B2B goods, The Wall Street Journal reports. Will wonders never ...
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Next week Space hacking Startup Conference Instagram unfiltered
The calendar is a bit light next week after the three-day Memorial Day break, but there are a few good opportunities for founders and funders nonetheless. The big one is in Redwood City on Thursday when the annual Startup Conference is held in Redwood City. If your group is hosting something you think we should include in our daily and weekly TechFlash Silicon Valley calendar, send me a note at ...
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Who to follow on Twitter in Wichita
Who to follow on Twitter in Wichita Think Twitter is just about self-shot photos and what people are eating for lunch? There's some of that, but in this week's cover story, the Wichita Business Journal highlights some local tweeters who talk about much more than that. The report focuses on nine individuals who are among the most effective drivers locally of intelligent conversation. They ...
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Top Twitter practices for business marketing
Feel like a twit instead of a Twitter expert? Youre not alone. Businesses are having a difficult time cracking the code to successful marketing via Twitter. However, executive education and conference company Global Strategic Management Institute tackled the topic in its Social Media Strategies Summit Blog. The blog recently offered the Top 10 Twitter Marketing Tips to Remember. Check them out, ...
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Reports Dell buyout group to amass $7B in financing
Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc. are reportedly amassing up to $7 billion in financing to counter Michael Dells investor groups offer of $2.4 billion for Dell Inc. shareholders. Thomson Reuters LPC is reporting that Icahn and Southeastern want the financing before Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) shareholders meet in July to vote on a prospective buyout and move to take the ...
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Two bailed after arrest over Woolwich attack Twitter comments
Two men have been released on bail after their arrest for allegedly making offensive comments on Twitter about the murder of a British soldier in ...
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Guest Blogging vs. Guest Posting – Imagine A World Without Links
For several months now debate has continued about the merits of guest posting, the relationship between content and links, backlinks, publishers and signature links, guest posting, and comments. It's sad to read articles; many by bloggers and people who run sites based on contributions from guest bloggers, as to the decline in the importance in guest blogging. It's pure drivel and the ...
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Mass. Energy invests in energy efficiency-promoting tech startups
Ambri, led by CEO Phil Guidice, is one of six young companies that will share a $734, 134 in seed money from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to showcase their ideas to potential investors. A half-dozen young companies that have developed energy-saving technologies -- from storage batteries to improved solar panels -- will be sharing $734,134 in seed money from the Massachusetts Clean ...
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Ashton Kutcher says the media messed up Twitter
It's not me, it's you. That was the message from actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher, who was on hand at CTIA 2013 to discuss his views on the mobile industry and social networking. During the keynote, Kutcher was asked how he thought Twitter was monetizing the mobile market. The star of the upcoming film, "jOBS," said the media messed up the social ...
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A dozen aftershocks felt following Northern California earthquake
More than a dozen aftershocks were felt after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake shook a remotely populated area in the Sierras in Northern California, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake was strong enough to be felt across a wide area and to do considerable damage to poorly designed buildings. But no significant damage had been reported. The quake at 8:47 p.m. Thursday was ...
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Jennifer Lopez teams with Verizon on retail startup
Jennifer Lopez is getting into the mobile phone business with Viva Movil, aimed at Hispanic consumers. Jennifer Lopez may not be an expert on mobile technology just yet, but the star claims deep knowledge of the Latino consumer and says she will be using that insight to form a partnership with Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) on a chain of targeted mobile-phone stores called Viva Movil. Lopez, whose ...
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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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