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Google Facebook mull rival bids for Waze report
-0.39% for Israeli mobile-app developer Waze Inc., according to an anonymously sourced Bloomberg News report late Thursday. Earlier news reports had tipped Facebook as conducting advanced talks to buy Waze for between $800 million and $1 billion. The Bloomberg report said Waze was seeking more than $1 billion from Google, and may decide to stay independent and raise financing instead. Waze, ...
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Corrections officials investigating Facebook Instagram pictures
An Instagram picture from user hehasnochill that claims to have been taken inside the Baltimore City Detention Center. The original caption reads: "In my cell and guess what? Im still the heart of the streetswestside what's ...
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Google like Facebook in talks to buy Waze for about US$1bil
, Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Waze is seeking more than $1 billion and is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties, said Bloomberg, citing a source. Other media have reported that Facebook Inc has held talks to buy Waze for as much as $1 ...
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Twitter Lets Brands Find Viewers of Their TV Ads
For those inclined toward social media, using Twitter while watching television has become a ritual, with viewers commenting on everything from sports events to nighttime dramas. On Thursday, executives from Twitter discussed how they planned to capitalize on that activity by allowing advertisers to send ads to people who are watching specific programming. The new product, called Twitter ...
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Condi John Doerr Obama join virtual immigration march
The March for Innovation website urges immigration reform advocates to lobby policymakers. If you've been on Twitter this week, you may have seen the hashtag #iMarch. You may have also seen it on newly acquired Tumblr, Facebook or a host of other social media channels. On May 22 and 23, a group of immigration reform advocates spearheaded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with backing ...
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Facebook delays Home in Europe wants a stronger First impression
IDG News Service - Users in the U.K. and France will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on the HTC First. The first smartphone to come preinstalled with Facebook Home has been delayed in those countries while Facebook updates the software to address some negative user feedback. Facebook is wise to delay the rollout, one analyst said, rather than release the product to other markets ...
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WikiLeaks doc director on Julian Assange The balls of this guy - I thought wow.
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a speech from the balcony of Ecuador's Embassy, in central London December 20, 2012. REUTERS/Luke ...
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Salesforce.coms quarterly results disappoint Wall Street
Salesforce.com Inc's quarterly earnings and outlook disappointed investors as costs rise following a spree of acquisitions, sending its shares lower. Under Marc Benioff, Salesforce's CEO and founder, the company's fast revenue growth has made it a favorite with investors eager to own part of the growing trend among businesses to outsource their information technology needs - from ...
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Facebook Home phone plans canned in the UK
The HTC First "Facebook phone" is not coming to the UK after its frigid reception in the US, and the social networking company is going back to work on the app after mass user apathy. Neither EE or Orange plan to offer the HTC First, Mobile ...
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No Facebook Phone For The United Kingdom
Facebook Home in action (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) UK network EE have confirmed that the HTC First, the so-called Facebook Phone, will not be sold in the UK ...
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Restaurants diving into social media but no strategy.
A recently issued report finds that the restaurant industry is embracing social media, but not all restaurants have a clear strategy for using social media sites. Also newly available is a summary of industry strategy presentations from the Cornell Hospitality Research Summit proceedings. The reports and proceedings are available at no charge from the CHR.Restaurant operators have moved strongly ...
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Zach Braff taught crowdfunding to Woody Allen - and he liked it
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Actor Zach Braff arrives at the William J. Clinton Foundation's Millennium Network Event in Los Angeles, California April 30, 2009. REUTERS/Danny ...
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Hulu video site auction attracts four bidders sources
Time Warner Cable Inc also put in bids, one of the people told Reuters. Hulu was put on the auction block this year for the second time after disagreement between ...
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KC business owner charged in $2.8M scheme to defraud Army
The owner of a Kansas City office supply company has been accused of a $2.8 million scheme to defraud the U.S. Army. Virgie Dillard, 70, of Lee's Summit, the CEO of Missouri Office Systems & Supplies Inc., sold counterfeit computer equipment to the Army, according to a 12-count indictment unsealed Thursday. An employee, Roland Evans, 43, of Lee's Summit, was also charged, along with Mark ...
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West Islip superintendent 12 students punished after using Facebook to cheat
Search schools for cheating investigations Twelve West Islip ninth-graders have been punished for using Facebook to cheat on biology homework, laboratory assignments and a recent exam, the district's superintendent confirmed Thursday.The group used the social media site to share answers -- including posting a photo of an answer sheet to the exam for other students to access while they ...
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Googles conversational search lets you chat with your search engine
An example of a spoken search; the relevant date was spoken aloud. Google has issued an update to its Chrome browser that lets you use everyday language like "how do I get there?" to interact with its search -- and lets the browser respond vocally as well. It's still an early form of what the search giant demonstrated on stage at Google I/O, but it's an indicator of features ...
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Pittsburgh on the Hudson Wrong city in NY City campaign logo
Weiner, the candidate who infamously resigned from the U.S. Congress two years ago in a sexting scandal, unveiled a video announcing his mayoral candidacy and a campaign logo on his website on ...
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Watch a brain surgery over Twitter Instagram and Vine
, but it may be the first to employ 6-second video medium Vine as part of the proceedings. Surgeons on Thursday implanted a brain pacemaker to counteract the effects of Parkinson's disease in a patient and sent out Twitter updates using both Instagram and Vine. The procedure has generated such memorable tweets as "Removing the skin and drilling through the skull for electrode ...
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Homegrown talent An answer to Silicon Valleys STEM shortage Video
If youve heard it once, youve heard it a million times: Silicon Valley has a serious tech talent problem. Microsoft Corp,s can attest to that first hand. We have 6,000 job openings more than half of which are for high tech jobs that we cannot fill, said Sid Espinosa, Microsofts director of corporate citizenship at an event at the tech giants Mountain View campus on Thursday. We have to go ...
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How DrupalCon coders are helping Oklahoma City recover
About 70 DrupalCon attendees helped conceive and develop the help4ok.org website to assist with recovery efforts in Oklahoma City. More than 70 developers attending DrupalCon in Portland this week took time out to make a major contribution to the recovery effort in Oklahoma City. Twenty-four people were killed and more than 1,000 homes were damaged or destroyed when a massive tornado swept ...
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The unanswered question after earnings Will HPs bets pay off
Hewlett-Packard is way up. Is its salvation at hand? Hewlett-Packard Co.'s earnings yesterday weren't great, but the stock price closed up more than 17 percent at $24.86 today. A deeper dive into the financials reveals the reason why: While revenue is slipping in basically every category besides printers, HP has slashed its expenditures, increased its cash flow, paid down debt, and has ...
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Ashford Hospitality Trust Announces Chairman and CEO Monty Bennett Now on Twitter
DALLAS, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) today announced that Monty J. Bennett, Ashford's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has launched an official Twitter channel (@MBennettAshford) with the goal of increasing the quality and accessibility of the Company's communications. Mr. Bennett commented "Twitter is a convenient and timely way ...
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Google Talks Back Conversational Search Available on New Version of Chrome
Chrome this week. Today, I chatted with Google to ask it burning questions like, "How many children does Madonna have?" and "What's the meaning of life?" While Google doesn't quite have the latter down just yet, it was able to comment on the matter, at least superficially (try it and see). The "OK Google" search prompt we heard about at I/O isn't ...
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Twitter Has Marketers And Advertisers In Mind This Week
launched a new Lead Generation card for mareters . Today, the company announced the availability of TV ad targeting, which has been developed through its acquisition of Bluefin Labs. Twitter says it’s designed to make it easier to extend and enhance TV ad campaigns. The offering is now available for Promoted Tweets in limited beta to select partners running national TV commercials in the ...
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Facebook users share 1 billion stories through outside apps
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook highlighted its developer platform on Thursday, throwing out some big numbers around how third-party apps benefit from connecting to users through the social network. The social network opened up its platform to independent developers six years ago Friday, Director of Product Manager Doug Purdy told journalists today at a press conference at Facebook's ...
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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