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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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Twitter users surrender accounts for Tourette awareness
The Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada is asking people to give up control over their personal Twitter accounts for 24 hours so that they can experience what it feels like to have involuntary verbal and physical tics associated with the syndrome. "Imagine if you Tweeted something embarrassing, offensive, or just plain weird - and you had no control over it," reads ...
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Google Fights U.S. Government Over FISA Order Data
Google has filed a legal challenge to the U.S. government, demanding the right to reveal more information on the data requests it receives in the latest twist in ...
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Google Officially Launches Local Results Carousel
. While the carousel has been used on tablet devices since December 2012, the carousel style results being available on a desktop is a much newer change. With the new style of carousel listings, when a user searches for a local results, such as a restaurant or hotel, instead of the traditional vertical listings most users associate with Google search, there is now a horizontal carousel which ...
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Facebook Rolls Out Updates To Page Insights
Facebook announced today that it is inviting more Pages to provide feedback on recent updates it has made to Page Insights. ';These updates, aimed at helping marketers/Page admins better develop content and reach people on Facebook, improve the way we organize and report fundamental insights for Pages,'; a Facebook spokesperson tells WebProNews. They do this, Facebook says, by making ...
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Facebook Now Has 1 Million Advertisers
A vast majority of these are small business owners, who often grow their local base via individual accounts and pages before becoming advertisers. The number of small businesses with Facebook pages is around 16 ...
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What Are The Biggest Risks To Facebooks Stock
Facebook has shown improved growth in recent quarters, there are still risks that investors should watch. Despite stronger revenue growth, the stock could not sustain the momentum it gained from November to January. The margins are shrinking and there is still doubt as to whether Facebook will be able to substantially improve its monetization over the long term. In our previous note, we looked ...
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Facebook event suggests Instagram changes
SAN FRANCISCO -- A mysterious Facebook event set for Thursday has sparked buzz that the leading social network could be adding video to Instagram smartphone picture-sharing ...
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‘Anonymous’ search engine sees rocketing growth following NSA revelations
USA An alternative search engine DuckDuckGo has enjoyed a record surge in traffic as NSA scandals spark fears and frighten away Internet users from the more popular Google or Yahoo!. Over the previous week DuckDuckGo, a private search engine, which claims not to collect users' searches or create any personal user profile, has increased its traffic by 26 per cent and passed 3.1 million ...
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Facebook is now offering its space to 1 million active advertisers
The biggest social network, might have reached 1 billion users in no time and the number of advertisers is now catching up. Last Tuesday the company announced it now serves 1 million active advertisers. The Facebook director of small business, Dan Levy, said that the vast majority of advertisers on the platform are actually small businesses. He announced the milestone in the New York’s ...
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AOL Jumps to 3rd Place in Online Video Content Ranking
, 182 million Americans watched nearly 41 billion online content videos in May 2013. That's up from 181.9 million Americans, who watched 38.8 billion online content videos in April 2013. But the rising tide is lifting AOL's boat more than ...
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Paula Deens Racist Comments Go Viral Paulas Best Dishes Explodes on Twitter
Paula Deen is at the center of a growing Twitter trend after it was alleged that she admitted to using the n-word and telling racial jokes during a May 17 ...
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Facebook launches photo comments
(Credit: Facebook) Facebook is now letting its 1.11 billion members react to their friends' status updates with photo comments. The social network said Wednesday that it has started the global release of the new feature, which lets people add photos to comment threads using a new "Attach a Photo" button. To start, photo comment uploads will be restricted to the Facebook Web ...
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Viacom Twitter Partner to Deliver Social Video Campaigns
Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA) and Twitter today announced a partnership to deliver social video advertising campaigns around the most popular shows and biggest events throughout Viacom's network portfolio, which includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Nickelodeon, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV Land, Spike and more. Viacom is the latest media company to join the Twitter Amplify program. The partnership will launch ...
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Forbes Twitter Chat Daniel Fisher on SCOTUS
Forbes writers have the ability to call out member comments they find particularly interesting. Called-out comments are highlighted across the Forbes network. You'll be notified if your comment is called ...
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When facebook went down
After a few minutes of a server-wide outage. Everyone can stop losing their minds.Users logging on for a social network break a bit after 11am AEST freaked out when they faced an error message instead of selfies and invitations to play Candy Crush.The site was down for about five minutes for some users, up to 10 minutes for others.Messages posted online, apparently linked to hacking grouip ...
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Cyber threats and leaks spur increased security focus
cyber security for aerospace and defense companies showing off their wares at this year's Paris Airshow. "We, like others, are constantly being bombarded by people who are trying to get into our systems," ...
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei uses Twitter to tell young Iranians to take a hike
Presumably taking his cue from the US First Lady Michelle Obama and her physical education campaign, Iran's Supreme Leader has published a Twitter paean to the benefits of ...
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Google’s Project Loon Its Balloon-Powered Internet Access
, but it's not. Google plans to give Internet access to the entire world by sending network-enabled balloons into the stratosphere. Dubbed Project Loon, the venture aims to liberate those 5 billion or so people on Earth without Internet access, because "for every one person in the world that can get online, there are two that can't." "Right now in most of the countries ...
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FINRA reviewing brokerages use of social media
(Reuters) - Wall Street's Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is looking at how brokerage firms supervise their use of communication outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the industry-funded regulator ...
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Will you ДАНСwithme How Bulgarian protesters are using social media
Every large protest now has the corresponding hashtags and key-word on social media: Tunisia has #Jan14, Egypt has #Jan26, the recent Turkish protests used #occupygezi. After five days of streets protests in Bulgaria, #????withme appears as the central hashtag, along with #Bulgaria, naturally, around which tweets, videos, blogposts and messages about the demonstrations all gravitate. The ...
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Michael Hastings Remembered on Twitter
contributing editor and BuzzFeed reporter. Figures from the Roots' Questlove and New York University professor Jay Rosen to filmmaker Michael Moore ...
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The panic is over. Facebook is back up
The panic is over. After several hours of trouble last night, Facebook is back up. Facebook suffered a service disruption for about four hours Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times. The site came back up but suffered another, though shorter, disruption this morning. The crowd-sourced online monitoring ...
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Facebooks big idea event Join us Thursday
(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Facebook unveils its next "big idea" on Thursday, and CNET will bring you all the news with live commentary and photos. The social network was as mysterious as ever when ...
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Yahoo Launches Localworks a Listing Management Tool for Small Business
, a product that it says will help small businesses recapture sales they may be losing due to incorrect or outdated online listings. The new product, which Yahoo is launching in connection with location software company Yext, is designed to help companies easily update their online listings across more than 40 online platforms designed to reach 150 million local searchers, according to Tom ...
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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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