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Twitter Chat How to Have a Healthy Summer
How can you shed those final 5 pounds you put on over the summer? How can you liven up your BBQs and make tastier green smoothies? U.S. News Health discussed all this and more in a Twitter chat with registered dietitian Julieanna Hever and vegan cookbook author Dreena Burton. Here are the ...
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Yahoo says it received up to 13000 user data requests from US government agencies in 6 months
Yahoo is the latest company to disclose how many requests for user data it has received from U.S. government agencies, putting the number between 12,000 and 13,000 in the six months that ended on May 31. Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer and General Counsel Ron Bell said in a blog post late Monday that the most common requests concerned fraud homicides, kidnappings, and other criminal ...
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Google AdWords Enhanced Campaign CPCs Grow 6 Report
Adobe released their findings today on the impact of Google AdWords Enhanced campaigns on advertising click costs. To arrive at their conclusions they examined 100 U.S. advertisers spending more than $100 million between March and May of this year using Adobe’s Media Optimizer. They found overall the cost-per-click (CPC) across devices was up 6 percent since March. The primary factor ...
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Vine Sees Near YouTube-Level Engagement on Twitter
If you’re a brand who’s looking to expand its social media strategy – you better give Vine a look if you’re not ...
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Facebook CEO meets South Korean president
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, shakes hands with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a meeting at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 18, ...
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USNewsHealth Twitter Chat Healthy Communities for Kids
Our next Twitter chat, about factors that make communities healthy and safe for children, will feature experts from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health ...
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The Ongoing Story Twitter and Writing
magazine archives recently, doing research for my biography of J. D. Salinger, when I pulled open a drawer and found a small box containing a bunch of discarded typewriter heads for the I.B.M. Selectric typewriter—the cutting-edge writing technology of my youth. I had written, or tried to write, my first stories while sitting before this ominously humming machine. At its center was a ...
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Facebook may add videos to Instagram rumors suggest
Facebook invited members of the press to its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. to "learn about a new product" on Thursday. Rumor is that this new product might be a video feature on Instagram.According to Facebook's invitation, a "small team has been working on a big idea," ...
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How Much Is A Social Media Influencer Worth
Influencer marketing has been around for a steady while now. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: all can offer brands many influencers. But no one actually knows how much a brand should pay an ...
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Amazon Launches New Facebook-Integrated Crowdsourced Gifting Product
Amazon is looking to move in on Facebook’s gifting turf with a new product that lets friends crowdsource each other’s gifts using the power of the social network’s graph. Amazon has just announced Amazon Birthday Gift, a ';new way for customers to surprise friends on their birthdays by joining together to send Amazon.com Gift Cards with birthday messages on ...
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Internet access is more important than sleep or food
(Credit: TP-Link) Believe or not, the majority of men in the U.K. rank Internet access as valuable as sex and even more important than food and shelter. That's right, 42 percent of male respondents in a new survey by broadband ...
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Amazon adds group gift cards to Facebook
launched Amazon Birthday Gift, which allows customers to send friends electronic gift cards on their birthdays. Customers can invite mutual friends to contribute, so the gift can grow. You start the process ahead of the friend's birthday ...
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Kenya Shababaab Post Pictures of Two Aps On Twitter
The al Shabaab yesterday posted photos on Twitter of men they claim are two missing APs believed to have been kidnapped by the militia from Damajaley AP camp last month. Constables Fredrick Chirchir and Joseph Wambugu were kidnapped during an ambush on June 25. The militia promised to post photos of a Uganda People Defence Forces commander whom they claim was captured during fighting for the ...
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The top games of E3 2013
>Editor's note: John Gaudiosi is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Gamerhub.tv video syndication network. He's covered video games for hundreds of outlets over the past 20 years and specializes in the convergence of Hollywood and games. Los Angeles (CNN) -- The annual Electronics Entertainment Expo, which wrapped up here Thursday, is all about next-generation gaming. More than 45,000 game ...
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Amazon rolls out Facebook social gift card
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Amazon.com on Tuesday rolled out a new way for Facebook users to collectively send a friend a birthday ...
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Facebook to Unveil Instagram Video-sharing Capability Rumors Say
Instagram and Facebook plan to let users take and share short videos in the Instagram app, to compete with the similar Vine app, tech watchers are reporting. The two companies are said to be planning to unveil the new capability at a June 20 event in Menlo Park, Calif., ArsTechnica reported Monday. The announcement is seen as a response to Vine, which gave users an easy way to record and ...
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Google Makes Non-Desktop SEO an Absolute Necessity
post on its webmaster blog regarding mobile website infrastructure and search results? I found it really interesting; Google announced changes to their algorithm which will favor sites with best-in-class mobile infrastructure; for once I don't think you'd find an SEO that begrudges the changes they are making. Failure to fix annoying mobile experiences will now actively hinder your ...
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Facebook H-P lead techs higher
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Technology stocks were modestly higher Tuesday, lifted by gains in shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Facebook Inc. ...
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Amanda Bynes Twitter Apologies Backhanded Amends
Amanda Bynes' Twitter feuds calling people "ugly" are now followed by apologies as she tries to make up for the harsh words with something, "sort of ...
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Facebook to make mystery product announcement
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, seen unveiling the "Graph Search" feature during a media event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California January 15, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (? Robert Galbraith / Reuters) MENLO PARK ...
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Duranadam Standing man protest goes viral as Turkey eyes law to restrict social media
Turkey The Turkish government is working on a draft law to restrict social media in a bid to crack down on activists. Meanwhile, a new form of protest is sweeping Turkey, taking Twitter by storm under the hashtag 'standing man.' Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler said on Monday that the government was drafting a law to restrict social media content. Guler said the measures ...
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Google Facebook and Microsoft agree plan to tackle child porn
Technology giants including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and BT were summoned to Parliament for a meeting with Culture Secretary Maria Miller to decide what action to take on the issue.Although internet service providers yesterday rejected the Government's demand to apply child protection filters that would automatically block adult content from all sites as a "default" setting, ...
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Bashar al-Assad embraces twitter but warns Europe that it will pay the price if it arms Syrian rebels
Bashar al-Assad has warned Europe that it will live to regret arming rebel factions in the Syrian conflict, adding that the move would lead to the "export" of terrorism to the ...
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A High-Tech Street Sign Thats Plugged Into Social Media
Breakfast has been working on creating a street sign. Like most other "all points" signs in the world, this one will lead you in the right direction towards your destination. But that's pretty much where the similarities end. The Brooklyn-based interactive agency’ssign, called Points, is an high-tech version of a low tech tool. While it can, in fact, tell directions, Points ...
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The Price to Pay for Facebooks Free Wi-Fi A Scrap of Privacy
The idea of offering people free Wi-Fi in exchange for their physical coordinates began at Facebook as a one-off experiment, a project by two engineers during an all-nighter in May 2012. Since then, Facebook has gradually spread what it now calls "Facebook Wi-Fi" further and further beyond the company's corporate walls, deploying the system to cafes in Palo Alto and San Francisco ...
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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