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Lad provokes cops on Facebook Catch me if u can ... and they do
When Sam Greenwood saw his face in a wanted ad on his local police department's Facebook page, he wrote in the comments: "Catch me if u can." When a U.K. police station posted a fugitive's mugshot on its Facebook page, the cheeky lad wrote in from his personal account: "Catch me if u can." "In the past it's taken us several weeks to get a hold of ...
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Social media reaction to mile-wide tornado hitting Oklahoma City area
This photo provided by KFOR-TV shows homes flattened outside Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP ...
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Eminems Music Publisher Suing Facebook
The complaint filed in Michigan federal court not only accuses the popular social network of lifting one of Eminem's songs for the April launch of a new application called "Facebook Home," but tells the story of how Facebook's advertising company attempted to use Eminem to attract the liking ...
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Parents turn to Internet to help daughter charged with sex with girl minor
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolmate, was another ...
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Fox family moves into den on Facebook campus
A Facebook fox lounges in the sun on the company's California campus. Caution: What you are about to read may incite office envy.Facebook employees are enjoying an unusual office perk -- the chance to watch a fox family that has made its home on the company's Menlo Park, Calif., campus.The California gray foxes, a mother and her three little ones, even have their own Facebook ...
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Why the Tumblr-Yahoo deal has one Portland startup excited
Dan Coe's BlkDot helps brands sell their wares on Tumblr. Portland entrepreneur Dan Coe has had a long, healthy relationship with Tumblr. He expects that to only deepen with Yahoo's planned $1.1 billion acquisition of the microblogging site. Coe's previous startup, Coexist Digital, developed a commerce platform that essentially allowed brands to sell their wares on Tumblr without ...
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YouTube Celebrates 8th Birthday With 100 Hours of Video Every Minute
YouTube has been serving its clips of animals, planking, people falling over and monkeys in sheepskin coats for eight years. The video streaming website launched eight years ago with a single ...
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DST tries something new mutual funds for everyday investors
Eddie Franz of DST Market Systems models the latest in TreeSwing app T-shirts. DST Systems Inc. is attempting to appeal to a larger audience with a new effort aimed at giving regular consumers access to mutual funds. DST still is waiting for approval on the mobile investment app, TreeSwing, from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. But later this spring, the Kansas City-based ...
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Stop the hate on Twitter
>Editor's note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks including CNN. He is the editor of the politics blog The Dean's Report and co-host of a new CNN podcast "The Big Three" that looks at the top three stories of the week. Follow him on Twitter @deanofcomedy. (CNN) -- For some, Twitter is a social media platform that ...
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Stop the hate on Twitter
>Editor's note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks including CNN. He is the editor of the politics blog The Dean's Report and co-host of a new CNN podcast "The Big Three" that looks at the top three stories of the week. Follow him on Twitter @deanofcomedy. (CNN) -- For some, Twitter is a social media platform that ...
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Stop the hate on Twitter
>Editor's note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks including CNN. He is the editor of the politics blog The Dean's Report and co-host of a new CNN podcast "The Big Three" that looks at the top three stories of the week. Follow him on Twitter @deanofcomedy. (CNN) -- For some, Twitter is a social media platform that ...
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Stop the hate on Twitter
>Editor's note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is a political comedian and frequent commentator on various TV networks including CNN. He is the editor of the politics blog The Dean's Report and co-host of a new CNN podcast "The Big Three" that looks at the top three stories of the week. Follow him on Twitter @deanofcomedy. (CNN) -- For some, Twitter is a social media platform that ...
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Nanaimo residents turn to Facebook to help battle crime
Nanaimo residents fed up with petty acts of theft have taken to social media to help clean up their neighbourhoods.A Facebook group called 'Stealing Nanaimo' has begun to take off and now boasts almost 800 members since its creation in August.Armed with Internet sleuthers, victims of crime and curious residents, the page has become a digital neighbourhood watch, praised by police for ...
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Google No Search Engine Is Completely Objective
How can Google be confident with their SERPs, when relying on inherently subjective signals that influence which sites display (i.e. using human ‘quality raters’ to evaluate entire domains without the context of the search query ...
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Facebook simplifies sharing for iOS apps
(Credit: Facebook) Sharing is caring -- if your Facebook and your network depends on it. Monday, the social network simplified the process for sharing activities from third-party iOS apps to Facebook. The company rolled out something called the ...
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Yahoos Mayer unveils new Flickr offers more details on Tumblr
Yahoo's new Flickr focuses on big, high-resolution images. Yahoo unveiled a new look to Flickr, and offered up more details on the companys Tumblr acquisition at its press conference today in New York City. The new Flickr, which launched today, is an image-dominant site (think more Pinterest than the blue links and text-heavy pages you're used to), with a new Android interface and 1 ...
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Plea bargain offer made to Florida teen arrested for lewd behavior
A female Florida high school student, accused of lewd behavior with an underage female, has been offered a plea deal, authorities said Monday. Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, was arrested in February and charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior toward her unidentified girlfriend, 14, a fellow student at Sebastian River High School in Sebastian, Fla. A court affidavit referred to kissing and ...
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Newsle Inc. raises $1.65 million
Newsle Inc., a San Francisco startup, raised $1.65 million in its first round of venture funding. The company makes software that mines online news for reports about friends or colleagues for users of social networks such as LinkedIn Corp. (NASDAQ: LNKD) or Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). Two Harvard University computer science students Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon quit school in 2011 to start ...
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Report Dish bids $2B for LightSquared frequencies on eve of Clearwire vote
Charlie Ergen, chairman and co-founder of Dish Network Corp. Charlie Ergen's Dish Network Corp. is said to have placed a $2 billion stalking-horse bid for mobile broadband spectrum from bankrupt wireless startup LightSquared Inc. just as shareholders in another company weigh a $2.2 billion Dish bid on other frequencies. Bloomberg News reported the LightSquared bid Monday afternoon, citing ...
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Watertown businessmen purchase Las Vegas e-commerce firm
The purchase of WebHost XTC will help three Watertown business executives offer more e-commerce capabilities to customers of their respective companies. Three Watertown business owners have purchased a Las Vegas-based commerce hosting company and plan to add jobs locally, according to a Monday press release. Paul Dickey, owner of Accurate Pool & Spa Services in Watertown, along with Brian ...
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Rackwise needs capital to continue operating
Folsom-based software developer and reseller Rackwise again issued a warning that the company needs additional capital to continue to operate. Folsom-based software developer and reseller Rackwise Inc. again issued a warning in its quarterly financial statement that the company needs additional capital to continue to operate. In April, the company put out its annual report that said the company ...
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POE Social Media Planning Beyond Reach
I think I might have seen all the buzzing, womming, seeding, social media planning, buying, strategies and tactics available. From local brands to big spending global brands. And ...
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Protesters to skip Amazon shareholders meeting target Alaska Airlines
Protesters plan to skip this year's Amazon shareholders' meeting after the company made changes to its policies. Last year, protesters lined the block around the Seattle Art Museum when Amazon held its annual shareholders meeting there. This year, things may be a bit more subdued. When Amazon shareholders and executives meet Thursday, the investors will vote whether to reappoint the nine ...
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Silvercars puts all-Audi rental fleet on the road in DFW
Silvercar offers all Audi A4s for rent at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and on Friday another rental car facility will open at Dallas Love Field. It pays to know the back roads around Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. One missed exit in the DFW Connector highway construction project can really ruin your day. I found myself unable to enter the airport on the north end a few weeks ...
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D.C. tax office failed to collect $6.5M in penalties auditors say
The District's tax office has failed to collect $6.5 million in penalties from large D.C. businesses that do not file their returns electronically as required by law. That is one of numerous flaws including unauthorized changes, insufficient support, inadequate planning that the D.C. inspector general found in the Office of Tax and Revenue's Integrated Tax System, software the District ...
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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