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SA retailers slow to adopt e-commerce
retail strategy, EMEA, at JDA Software, who notes that local retailers are observing the transition that has taken place in more mature markets; learning from what has worked, avoiding costly mistakes, and shaping this into a strategic roadmap that can create a true ...
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Websense to go private for $907 million
Vista Equity Partners in a deal that values the online security firm at about $907 million. The offer of $24.75 per share represents a roughly 29 percent premium ...
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Yahoo confirms $1.1B acquisition of Spark-backed Tumblr
Spark Capital general partner Bijan Sabet has led his Boston-based firm's investments into Tumblr, which Yahoo has acquired for $1.1 billion. When New York-based blogging platform Tumblr raised its first funding, of $750,000, in 2007, Boston-based Spark Capital was among the two venture capital firm investors. On Monday, after massive growth (and continued funding by Spark) over six years, ...
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BizNext 7 things you need to know 05.20.13
Is Google coming to town and brining 500 or more jobs? The rumors began flying over the weekend courtesy of @nextstl. BizNext's @stlbizakurtovic is on it and trying to get a response from Google. We'll let you know what happens. Hope people aren't getting it confused with word last week that 500-600 Boeing IT workers are coming here over the next few years. Yes, what we told you ...
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Which Online Flower Stores PPC Ad Won Mothers Day 2013
Every Mother's Day, the pressure is on for online flower stores to use elements of persuasion throughout their PPC ads and websites to engage and convert visitors. With more than $2.3 billion forecast to be spent ...
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Yahoo will pay $1.1B for Tumblr
Yahoo Inc.s deal for the blogging site will provide the Internet power with a bigger foothold in the thriving social networking and communications space, as well as tap a much younger demographic, The Wall Street Journal reports. Right now, Tumblr generates only about $13 million in annual revenue, but Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is expected to move quickly to boost that number, the Silicon Valley ...
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Dont buy that MacBook Air Product refresh apparently coming in June
Supplies of Apple's MacBook Air are dwindling at retailers, which means a product refresh could be imminent. Apples Worldwide Developers Conference is coming next month, and the product rumor mill is in full swing. One of the top rumors today is that the Cupertino-based company will reveal a new MacBook Air, running Intels forthcoming Haswell chip. Apple Insider reports the available ...
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Matrix and Pilot House-backed Qualtre lands new round of funding
Nearly two years after it landed an $10 million round of funding, motion sensor maker Qualtre Inc. has landed another round, bringing the total funds raised to $26 million. Marlborough, Mass. -based Qualtre Inc. has landed $3 million in funding, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The funding comes after the developer of solid state motion sensors for ...
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How to Start YouTube Advertising in 9 Steps
video viewing doesn't seem to be slowing down any time soon. If you're ready to advertise on YouTube for the first time – with one of those ads that pop up before you watch your video – then this basics guide is for you. Although there is a lot more intricate information that goes into getting the best ROI from YouTube ads, this nine-step guide is simply a beginner's ...
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Yahoo to buy Tumblr for $1 billion
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has agreed to buy Tumblr Inc. in a $1.1 billion, all-cash deal. The board of directors for Yahoo Inc. has agreed to buy social-networking and blogging site Tumblr Inc. for $1.1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. Its the biggest deal yet for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, after a series of smaller deals since she took control last year, according to the Silicon Valley ...
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English Helper collects $750K fundraise
Westwood, Mass. based English Helper Inc. has secured a new round of funding. The developer of software to help non-English speaking people learn the English language raised $750,000, according to documents filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Used by schools, higher education students, skill-building organizations, companies, and other individuals, English Helpers products ...
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Target goes tech-hunting in San Francisco
Target Corp. has opened an office in San Francisco, where it plans to scout for tech talent to build its e-commerce and mobile technology efforts. Reuters reports that Target had hired David Newman to run its Technology Innovation Center, which will seek out other tech companies that can help Targets tech ventures, like speeding up its website or improve the shopping experience for ...
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Cameroon limits social media services
The government of Cameroon has ordered mobile operator MTN to suspend an SMS service that had proven a powerful tool for protest movements in North ...
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Kepler or not well find life in space
>Editor's note: Meg Urry is the Israel Munson professor of physics and astronomy and chairwoman of the department of physics at Yale University, where she is the director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.(CNN) -- On Wednesday, NASA officials announced a serious problem with the Kepler satellite, the world's most successful planet-finding machine. Since its launch four years ...
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China trying to manage exposure of corruption online
Reuters © Liu Tienan, then head of the National Energy Administration and deputy chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), attends a news conference about Spring Festival transport in Beijing in this January 8, 2012 file photograph. The latest bureaucrat to fall from grace thanks to the Internet was Liu Tienan, sacked from his job last week as deputy chief ...
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Robot Guns Combat Facebook The Tech of the Armys Last Afghanistan Brigade
The latest robots and high-tech electronic warfare, silently watching over soldiers as they sleep. Rickety but vital helicopters whose pilots devise new tactics to make up for aging hardware. Hand-carried devices that promise to end age-old battlefield dilemmas but end up causing more problems than they solve. These are the most important techs in arguably the most important U.S. Army brigade ...
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Chart Where Yahoos Tumblr Ranks Next to Twitter Instagram and Pinterest
Yahoo announced they will acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion this afternoon. The news comes about a year after Facebook snatched up the hot startup Instagram. In a post-Facebook world, that leaves two large independent social networks: Twitter and Pinterest, the oldest and youngest in the group, ...
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Tumblr founder 26 earns a $275M payday from Yahoo shareholders
David Karp reportedly owned 25 percent of Tumblr at the time of its last venture capital fundraise. If he can sell three more companies to Yahoo on similar terms, he'll be a billionaire. David Karp, 26, co-founded Tumblr in February 2007. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported Yahoo's board of directors agreed to acquire the short-form blogging service for $1.1 billion. "Latest ...
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10 business lessons from Star Trek
Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine star as Spock and Kirk in Paramount Pictures' Star Trek Into Darkness. Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, knew something about organizational structure in challenging situations. He trained as a police officer and later worked for the Los Angeles Police Department. He flew dozens of bomber missions in the Army Air Corps in World War II. And he was a ...
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Mobile phone boom in Asia-Pacific
The Asia/Pacific region led worldwide mobile phone sales with 53.1% in the first quarter of 2013. The latest research by Gartner reveals that in the first quarter of 2013, the Asia-Pacific region led worldwide mobile phone sales, with 53.1%. It is also the only region to show growth in mobile phone sales, with a 6.4% increase year-on-year. Mobile phone sales in the Europe, Middle East and ...
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New Enterprise Associates sees huge payday from Tableau Software IPO
Chevy Chase-based New Enterprise Associates stands to reap a fortune from Tableau Software Inc.'s newly public stock, the Washington Business Journal reported. NEA is the single biggest venture backer of the Seattle-based data analytics company (NYSE: DATA). NEA sold 1 million shares of Tableau stock in the offering, and is holding on to another 18.5 million shares, or about 37 percent of ...
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Lockheed Martin attempts to win international cybersecurity business
Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin has a strategy in place to win new work internationally and in growing sectors such as cybersecurity, the defense contractor's new chief of information systems and global solutions told the Washington Post. In a wide-ranging interview with the Post, Sondra L. Barbour, who took over the challenged unit late last month, told the business editors, "The ...
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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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Top Saudi Clerics Warn Against Twitter Use
Use Twitter and your soul is damned, according to Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the senior religious authority in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi who uses the popular microblogging service ';has lost this world and his afterlife,'; the prominent cleric ...
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IPL Hearing set for David Warner over Twitter rant
Australia opening batsman, will face a disciplinary hearing this week into an alleged code of conduct breach after a Twitter rant directed at two of the country's leading cricket writers. Cricket Australia (CA) said on Monday the hearing would take place on Wednesday via teleconference from India, where Warner is playing in ...
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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