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Facebooks big idea event Join us Thursday
(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Facebook unveils its next "big idea" on Thursday, and CNET will bring you all the news with live commentary and photos. The social network was as mysterious as ever when ...
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Yahoo Launches Localworks a Listing Management Tool for Small Business
, a product that it says will help small businesses recapture sales they may be losing due to incorrect or outdated online listings. The new product, which Yahoo is launching in connection with location software company Yext, is designed to help companies easily update their online listings across more than 40 online platforms designed to reach 150 million local searchers, according to Tom ...
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Twitter Partners with Viacom for Ad-Supported Highlights
MTV VMAs Are the 'Biggest and Loudest' Way for Artists to Make a Statement, Says Exec The media giant is partnering with the social media sensation to deliver "social video advertising" across its various broadcast properties, which include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. The monetization effort kicks off with the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, where MTV will provide ...
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Twitter and Viacom announce social video marketing pact
The new deal, which will start with tweeted highlights during the MTV Video Music Awards, is the latest in Twitter's ongoing march to bolster its advertising ...
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Twitter taught in Grade 1 class in Windsor Ont.
A teacher in Windsor, Ont., is teaching her first and second grade students to tweet, blog and Skype as part of the elementary curriculum. "It's a different language in my class," said Kristen Wideen, who teachers a split class at Eastwood public school. Her students tweet using the handle @MrsWideensClass. Kids write the tweets, Wideen approves them. "I do look at them ...
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Uday Chopra openly flirts with Nargis Fakhri on Twitter
Uday Chopra has not been seen on the silver screen for quite sometime but he has ensured to still hog onto the limelight. Uday has garnered alot of attention after he was seen expressing his love for B-town actress Nargis Fakhri.The actor has been openly flirting with the leggy lass on Twitter. In a recently exchange of tweets on Twitter, Uday apparently posted,"Nargis did you know we are ...
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Follow us on Twitter
Add a location to your Tweets When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location ...
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Facebook for Foodies Keys on Growth
social media site that bills itself as "Facebook for foodies" and is launching a national promotional campaign this week, has ambitious growth plans: at least 10 million users within a year. The site, which went live on Sept. 25, has been in a test-and-tweak phase for the past nine months. Boasting that it is a "culinary media platform (offering) the best features from every ...
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Pork Board Launches Social Media Site Insta-Ham
Social media has become an everyday part of people's lives. Users share recipes on Pinterest, check-in on Facebook, give instant opinions on Twitter and express their creativity on Instagram. The National Pork Board recognized these opportunities and, in February, launched "Pork Social" a social site dedicated to "the other white meat." Pork Social isn't aiming ...
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Airport Garners Social Media Award
Social media has changed the way Akron-Canton Airport (CAK) interacts with its Customers. According to a release, for its leadership in the use of Facebook, Twitter and ...
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Enventure Unveils New Interactive Web Site with Social Media Sharing Tools
LinkedIn , making it easier to share and connect with customers and industry peers. Visitors to Enventure’s website and members of its social media community will benefit from learning about the ...
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Facebooks Mobile Ads May Actually Work--At Least For Dating Apps
hasn't done much to soothe investors' concerns about its principal driver of revenue, its ads. Its Facebook Home offering hasn't taken off in a big way for a company that keeps investors grim as they call for it to do better on mobile. But according to new data from Snap Interactive, Facebook is at least helping drive business for one group of advertisers--dating apps. Snap ...
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Getting Published The Search Marketers Guide to PR
A public relations strategy is a big part of successful search campaigns. Getting your company's brand and employees exposed through media and social channels is incredibly important and can have a profound impact on links, rankings and traffic. If you need a refresher or an overview on this topic, check out piece from earlier this year ...
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Rare personal touch on Twitter posts carrying Irans Supreme Leader tag
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Is Iran's supreme leader suddenly in a chatty mood? A Twitter feed believed run by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office, khamenei.ir, now sports musings about his boyhood desires to work out at a gym and the pleasures of mountain strolls. Khamenei's office has said he does not have his own Twitter account -- although he does have a website -- but the ...
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Watermelon Oreos The public weighs in on social media
Watermelon Oreos, the dunkable cookie's newest makeover, went on sale June 10, but the typically social media savvy company hasn't marketed the limited edition cookie as they have ...
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Facebook We now have a MEEELLION real admen stalking you. Huzzah..
Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery Facebook claimed it has - for the first time - surpassed 1 million active advertisers who used the network in the last 28 days. The company ...
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Milwaukeeans Chill on the Hill with social media
June 19, 2013 8:07 a.m. | Bluegrass music filled Humboldt Park last night in Bay View's latest Chill on the Hill concert. But photos, videos and tweets filled the social media sphere as musicgoers shared their ...
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Peppa Pig Worlds Facebook page hijacked by abusive hacker
children 's animation.But on Monday, Peppa Pig, her brother, George Pig, and their parents, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig, found themselves the victims of a hacker with too much time on their hands - and too many grubby thoughts on their ...
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Why Facebook Home Should Make Apple and Google Very Nervous
We thought that the winners and losers in mobile were already clear. The biggest winners were the hardware manufacturers, with Apple and Samsung raking in $53 billion in smartphone profits last year. Mobile operating systems, while not quite as profitable yet, are also a proven profit machine: Apple now reaps nearly $2 billion a year in commissions from its mobile-app store, while Google hopes ...
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Structured Data Content Rich Snippets Authorship vs. Author Rank
Over the last 12 months we have witnessed a content marketing explosion and a rapid evolution in search and social media marketing techniques. This has been driven by technological and algorithmic advancement and has changed the way ...
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These Amazing Twitter Metadata Visualizations Will Blow Your Mind
Metadata in Twitter posts lets readers in on your geographic location, the language you speak, the phone you use, and more. They're also a mapmaker's best ...
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Service helps you use Twitter to find a job
Twitter can help you land a job by letting you connect with people and stay abreast of what's happening in your industry. But what if the microblogging service just isn't your ...
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Social media can help prevent crimes Delhi Police
"One can prevent a lot of crime through social media and through other means to interact with the public. Social media, the way people build ...
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Adobe enhances Creative Cloud
An updated version of Adobe's Creative Cloud is now available. According to Adobe, the Creative Cloud release re-imagines the creative process through a set of "CC" desktop applications, cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities. Files can be stored and shared through Creative Cloud, on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android, as well as through the newly integrated ...
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SA unwilling to pay more for 4G
Operators in SA will be challenged to find the right price elasticity between 3G and 4G speeds, says Accenture's Tammy Whyman. Though the majority of consumers globally are willing to pay additional monthly fees for mobile Internet services that would be 10times faster than their current connections, South Africans are less inclined to do so. This was one of the biggest findings ...
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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