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Chinese rival bolsters search engine against Baidu with Alibaba partnership
IDG News Service - China's Baidu has long dominated the country's search market. But a local rival to the company is bolstering its own search services with the help of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. On Wednesday, Qihoo 360 appeared to debut ...
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Australias Warner Fined for Twitter Outburst
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Giant solar plane flying into DFW Airport tonight
The SolarImpulse aircraft will land at D/FW Airport at 1 a.m. Thursday morning and will be on display for the public from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. The SolarImpulse aircraft will make history Wednesday as it flies nonstop from Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg took off today at 4:45 a.m. from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and is expected ...
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Social Strategy for Regulated Industries
convergence of paid, owned, and earned media , which explains a great deal about how brands can generate activity and earn credibility through social and other earned media to significantly boost SERP visibility. Even if marketers completely disregard the inherent benefits of effective social media programs in their own right, the growing ability of these efforts to generate credible social ...
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UPDATE 1-Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row
Wed May 22, 2013 7:33am EDT By Carmel Crimmins and Conor Humphries DUBLIN May 22 (Reuters) - Ireland called on Wednesday for an international clampdown on multinationals shifting profits around the world to avoid tax, after criticism that Irish loopholes helped technology giant Apple to shrink its tax bill. A U.S. Senate investigation into the tax affairs of the maker of iPhones, iPads and Mac ...
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Dish warns of national security issues if SoftBank buys Sprint
Dish Network has brought up national security as an issue should SoftBank acquire Sprint Nextel. Dish Network Corp.'s courting of Sprint Nextel Corp. took on a tone of international intrigue as the Colorado-based satellite entertainment company played up rival SoftBank's Corp.'s ties to China. The Kansas City Business Journal reported that an anti-SoftBank website funded by Dish ...
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Four takeaways from Apple CEO Tim Cooks tax strategy testimony
Apple CEO Tim Cook defends his company's tax strategies at a U.S. Senate hearing. Apple CEO Tim Cook survived his first congressional hearing Tuesday with his company's reputation for innovation intact. Today, however, the focus wasn't on a new technological breakthrough by Apple, it was on the creative ways the multinational corporation reduces its U.S. tax liability. Here are four ...
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Chorus Call launches C-Meeting Concert-oh for enterprise
Chorus Call, the makers of the web video conferencing platform Concert-oh, are now offering an enterprise version of the platform. After spending the last few years building out Concert-oh for consumers, the Monroeville-based company created C-Meeting, the next evolution of the tool with specific features, like higher security, aimed at corporate customers. C-Meeting is a convenient ...
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Leech Tishman adds California office
Pittsburgh law firm Leech Tishman has opened an office in Pasadena, Calif., led by Alan Kindred and Ivan Posey, veteran intellectual property lawyers who previously operated a namesake practice. It is the firms fourth office. This transaction enabled Leech Tishman to create an intellectual property practice group to its list of services. Leech Tishman Managing Partner Pete Fuscaldo said in a ...
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Troy startup ThermoAura secures investment
Rutvik Mehta created ThermoAura along with two Rensselaer professors. ThermoAura Inc., a startup in Troy, NY, has won more venture funding to commercialize something a mere one-thousandth of the width of a human hair. The company closed an agreement May 21 with Eastern New York Angels LLC. That Capital Region fund will invest $250,000 in ThermoAura over the course of this year. The money will ...
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Samsung spends $48M for 10 percent stake in Pantech
Samsung has bought a 10 percent stake in Pantech. In a move that surprised some analysts, Samsung Electronics has bought a 10 percent stake in rival Korean handset maker Pantech Co. The Wall Street Journal said Samsung's stake cost $48 million and is a sign that Samsung intends to follow a new strategy of investing in rivals and making acquisitions with some of the massive amount of cash the ...
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Risky behaviour starts young on social media survey
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian children are accessing social media websites at an increasingly younger age, a new survey suggests, with one in five "tweens" admitting they have chatted to someone online they do not know.The report "Tweens, Teens and Technology" by online security company McAfee found that children in the tweens age category of eight to 12 were adopting technology ...
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Rob Ford Charbonneau and the dark side of social media
Once upon a time - this was in another century, if not on another planet - serious news organizations did their best to prevent the spread of unsubstantiated rumours. This was also a time when judges and prosecutors strongly believed that the presumption of innocence should never be tampered with.Then social media arrived, with their good sides and their bad sides, and introduced a new culture, ...
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Hudson Valleys TEC-SMART early-college program grows 50 percent
At TEC-SMART/ HVCC's summer camp 2012, students constructed temperature-ohm-light meters. Enrollment in the upcoming early-college nanotechnology and clean energy program at Hudson Valley Community Colleges TEC-SMART campus will increase more than 50 percent. Total enrollment for 2013-14 is 110, up from 72 this year. Fifty-eight of the students are juniors who will enter their first year of ...
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SAPS hack spells negligence
The SAPS needs to beef up its IT security measures following a breach that has compromised thousands of whistle-blowers. The hacking of the SA Police Service's (SAPS's) Web site, that has put thousands of lives in jeopardy, spells gross negligence and raises questions around the police's IT systems and security. This is according to security experts, following an attack on the ...
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Disgraced ex-congressman Weiner announces candidacy for NYC mayor
U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) pauses as he announces that he will resign from the United States House of Representatives during a news conference in Brooklyn, New York, June 16, ...
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Raytheon Lockheed Martin battling it out to build $3B space fence
The U.S. Air Force is expected to pick a winner this summer to build an advanced radar system capable of tracking an estimated half a million pieces of manmade space junk, floating in orbit, before it can threaten satellites used for navigation, weather and communication, The Boston Globe reported. Raytheon Co. and Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. have competing proposals for the project. ...
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2013 The year to switch to alternative telecoms
Gone are the days when South African consumers and corporations only had one option for addressing their telecoms needs. These days, the industry is abuzz with new providers entering the market, rolling out their own infrastructure and offering its services at competitive prices. Yet many business owners and private consumers still seem reluctant to switch over to these alternatives and to ...
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Twitter hails dummy – but Noel Edmonds deserves fare dues | Media Monkey
celebrity in her own right. The shop dummy has 18,000 Twitter followers and has received offers from fashion houses, record labels and retail outlets. Edmonds reckons there might also be potential for perfume ("eau de la dummy") and jewellery. Lets just hope it doesn't go the way of 1987 film Mannequin, which saw Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall playing a beautiful store dummy ...
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Shoppers using mobile devices to decide on in-store purchases says Google
A recent study from Google has revealed a growing trend in the use of mobile devices as in-store shopping companions. In the report, 'Mobile In-Store Research: How in-store shoppers are using mobile devices', Google looks into the way consumers make use of their devices whilst browsing stores. According to the research, 84 per cent of shoppers with ...
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ANC mobilises via Mxit
A depiction of what the ANC Western Cape Mxit application will look like. The ANC in the Western Cape has launched an app on social platform Mxit, in an effort to attract voters in the province. According to a statement released by the party yesterday, the MyANCWC application "heralds a new era in social media and technology" to educate voters and mobilise them to ...
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12 Year-Old Girl Raped At Gunpoint By 3 Teen Boys Who Then Posted On Facebook
12-year-girl at gunpoint. The rape was videotaped then posted on the Facebook pages of all three boys accused. While there is, of course, a gun issue here, I will focus on the rape of a child. 16-year-old Justin Applewhite, 16-year-old Scandale Fritz and 15-year-old Kenneth Brown have all been charged, as adults, with criminal sexual assault. The teenagers are being held in lieu of $900,000 ...
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David Warner could still captain Australia despite Twitter rant says Michael Clarke
Australia Australia captain Michael Clarke has thrown his support behind embattled opener David Warner, saying he could still lead the team despite facing a disciplinary hearing over a Twitter rant.Warner is due to appear at Cricket Australia later today (Wednesday) over an alleged code of conduct breach after a heated social media tirade at two of the country's top cricket writers.He ...
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Woman brags about hit-and-run on Twitter cops tweet back
An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled ...
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WA SMEs top social media poll
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in WA have topped the nation for their use of social media, according to a study.Telstra's 2013 Yellow Social Media Report found 34 per cent of SMEs in WA had a presence on social media compared with a national average of 30 per cent.The survey, based on a sample of 1809 businesses found social media usage among WA SME's had risen from 30 per ...
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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