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Ashton Kutcher on Twitter Media kind of fed it up
Did the media really screw up Twitter? That's what actor Ashton Kutcher suggested when he spoke at the recent CTIA 2013 wireless conference. "Twitter's experience has changed for me, pretty drastically. It used to be sort of a personalized, experience for me, a really personal experience that I could share. I think for lack of a better verb, I think the media kind of f***ed it ...
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Google may start bidding war with Facebook over Waze
Google , maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze, setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook, people familiar with the matter ...
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How cat photos on caturday helped me understand Google+
Hello? Is anyone out there? Thats how a lot of people feel when they log on to Google+ and try to interact with friends and business connections, many of whom are off chatting on other social media platforms. The experience used to be a lonely one for me. The often non-chronological order of Google+s news feed confused me, too. That is until curiosity got the best of me, and I started watching ...
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Robots on the big screen have ties to Kansas City entrepreneur Video
Crackerneck is the name of a Golem Workshop prototype. When "Man of Steel" premieres next month, a Kansas City-area robotics engineer may experience a sense of dj vu. The debut will mark the second time Derek Scherer's handiwork has shown up on the big screen. Derek Scherer, who used to build battlefield robots for the U.S. Army, also played a part in the animatronic creatures in ...
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Washington University professor steers X Prize to Alzheimers
A Washington University professor and a team of experts won a brainstorming competition that led the X Prize Foundation to raise a $50 million prize to motivate scientists and researchers to find effective treatments and potentially a cure for Alzheimers disease. The X Prize Foundation awarded a $10 million prize in 2004 to the first company that built a spacecraft capable of carrying three ...
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ABQ Civic Tech Day seeks innovation through open data
The University of New Mexico will be the local host for a National Day of Civic Hacking event on Saturday, June 1. The University of New Mexico will be the local host for a National Day of Civic Hacking event on Saturday, June 1. The event, ABQ Civic Tech Day, is designed for programmers to work together to develop local apps, or ideas for their own projects, during hackathon sessions. Two of ...
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4 startups totally screwed if bridges keep collapsing and roads disappear
Trapped on a broken bridge, part of the Everett Collection. A s bridges collapse and roads erode, the burgeoning transportation startup scene could be looking at hard times. With the collapse last night of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state, its a good time to remember that without infrastructure beneath it, transportation innovation will hit a major pothole. But there is ...
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United offering more premium perks from New York
United Airlines says it now offers flat-bed seats and on-demand personal entertainment systems in premium cabins on every international flight from New York area airports. No matter what the surveys say about the quality of its service, Chicago-based United Airlines is charging ahead with upgrades of its service in a variety of ways. Today, United bragged that it is now the only United ...
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Compare Metrics filing reveals more funding details
A regulatory filing provided additional details about the Compare Metrics Inc. Series A financing announced earlier this week. The Austin-based software maker received nearly $4.4 million from 12 investors, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Compare Metrics, founded in 2010 as Compare Networks LLC, develops search tools for e-commerce websites with a ...
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Man charged with making malicious comments about murdered soldier on Facebook
A 22-year-old man has been charged on suspicion of making malicious comments on Facebook following the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby. Benjamin Flatters, of Lincoln, was arrested last night after complaints were made to Lincolnshire Police about comments made on Facebook, which were allegedly of a racist or anti-religious nature.He was charged with an offence of malicious communications ...
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Dumping over text or Facebook More common than you might think
Chalk another one up for the power of mobile and social media – our love affair with our phones and our Facebook accounts has changed not only the ways we interact in real-life relationships, but also the ways we end them. In a survey released last week, Internet and mobile security software ...
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Taiwan forms cloud computing initiative to join Facebook project
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- In an effort to participate in Facebook's Open Computing Project (OCP), Taiwan's academia and enterprises yesterday joined forces, announcing plans to establish a certification center and standards to govern hardware specifications ...
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STOP Twitter two-factor verification can be hacked in less than 140 characters
rolled out two-step verification, ostensibly making the service more secure for its millions of customers. This is a feature that other major companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook have already implemented and, on the surface, seemed a victory. Not so fast. Security researchers at F-Secure are taking a closer look and deem the implementation "not great". The ...
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School vets pupils social media use
Source: ONE News A Wellington primary school took to monitoring pupils' social media sites after it became "extremely concerned" about their online activity. In a letter sent home to parents, Karori West Normal School spoke of "appalling examples of chatroom dialogue" that staff discovered on social media sites such as Facebook and ask.fm when a couple of parents asked ...
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Unhappy with how your fave series is faring Amazon gives you a say
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon is once again shaking up traditional publishing models. This time, it's giving fans a chance to add their own personal touches to their favorite fiction - and get paid in the ...
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Im Like Forced to. I Dont Know Why. Facebook Takes Up My Whole Life.
D. Hammonds Casey Schwartz, an eighth-grader in Millburn, NJ, is 14 years old. She got her first computer (a toy) when she was 18 months old. She got her first cellphone (a real one) when she was in the second grade. Casey now owns a white iPhone 4S -- a device she takes with her to school. And keeps on the table at meals. And carries around her house. And stores next to her pillow when she ...
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Smells like special session at Texas Capitol
Lawmakers have until Monday to wrap up their regular-session work. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is keeping quiet until the last moment on whether a special session will occur, but Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has made it clear he wants one. At the start of May, Perry advised lawmakers that one of the best ways to avoid a special session would be to show him a budget with $1.8 billion of tax relief for ...
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Jell-O social media campaign plays with profane hashtag
Fat-Free Jell-o Pudding Snacks, Kraft Foods, Inc. products, photographed at a grocery store. Jell-O, a Kraft Foods Group brand, has launched a new social media advertising campaign thats raising eyebrows for its attempt to redefine a bit of profane Twitter shorthand. The web site jelloFML.com posts a live feed of tweets using the #FML hashtag and proclaims that Jell-O wants to turn the sentiment ...
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Wright-Patt Credit Union opens new branch
Doug Fecher is CEO of Wright-Patt Credit Union. The Dayton areas largest credit union is preparing for future growth by rolling out its latest technological innovation this week with the opening of its Springboro branch. Fairborn-based Wright-Patt Credit Union, which garnered national recognition for being a leader among credit unions in providing mobile access to its services, announced this ...
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Divergence had $71 million price tag according to report
Derek Rapp, who led Divergence at the time of its sale in 2011, joined Monsanto when the deal closed. Remember when Monsanto Co. bought local biotech company Divergence in an all-cash deal? Turns out the transaction was worth $71 million, according to Monsantos annual report. Admittedly, this revelation comes more than two years after a deal was announced between Monsanto and Divergence, a ...
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Live social media updates I-5 bridge collapse
The great thing about social media is that it's always changing and that makes it easy to miss something critical. Enter Tagboard. The Redmond-based startup creates "hastag hubs" that scoop up social media content into a Pinterest-like board. Read, then click the update button and you get fresh content. To create a tagboard, users register a hashtag with Tagboard. At the moment, any ...
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Google eyes Waze as Facebook circles hot Web maps property
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Social media spotlight Safelite AutoGlass
Safelite's Jaclyn Lipp, web marketing specialist, tells Business First about the company's social media presence. Ahead of Columbus Business Firsts Social Madness competition, which kicks off June 3, we are highlighting the social media presence of a handful of local participants. Whether a real estate developer, caterer, salon or clothing retailer, companies from all walks of business ...
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Sally Bercow learns the social media rules the hard way in McAlpine case | Joshua Rozenberg
Mr Justice Tugendhat concluded the reasonable reader would understand Sally Bercow's tweet about Lord McAlpine, right, as insincere and ironical. Photograph: ...
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Why B2B Marketers Still Dont Get Social Media--And 7 Steps For Fixing That
reported that while B2B social media spending increased 9.6% last year, the majority of B2B companies failed to integrate social media into their business practices. "The biggest challenge is that many companies see social media as a cute promotional activity when it can be a strategic marketing activity," says Christine Moorman, director of The CMO Survey and T. Austin Finch senior ...
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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