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Facebook comments get civil servant banned from promotion
Facebook and Twitter comments have led to seven Welsh government civil servants being disciplined in the past five years. Photograph: Martin ...
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Pele mocked on social media over appeal to end Brazil protests
Brazilian football legend Pele at an event earlier this month in Rio de Janeiro marking one year to kick-off for the 2014 World Cup. Photograph: Ronald Martinez/Getty ...
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Soldiers to be charged over offensive Facebook posts
Australian soldiers found to have posted demeaning comments about women on two Facebook pages will be charged under the Australian Defence Force Discipline Act, according to ...
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Dotcom decries largest data massacre after company deletes files
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - An actor in police costume mock-arrests Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom (L) as he launches his new file sharing site "Mega" in Auckland January 20, 2013. REUTERS/Nigel ...
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Venezuela - Venezuelan court stops judge from using social media
On June 15, 2013, Marilda Ros, head judge at a Caracas court, issued a precautionary measure prohibiting Mara Lourdes Afiuni (a judge who was jailed pending a criminal suit) from speaking to the national and international media and expressing herself on social media. This prohibition was issued within the framework of the decision of granting her parole on account of health difficulties. Jos ...
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Blaggers Guide to social media
It genuinely surprises me to see there are still some that seem to believe that investing in social media is risky business. Why would a company not want to know exactly what customers think of their brand and products? Being able to reach into the minds of your customers is no longer a mere figment of marketers’ imaginations. It’s a reality. As is the ability to learn what your ...
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REUTERS SUMMIT-Facebook has never been stronger since IPO Sandberg says
Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:13pm EDT (For other news from Reuters Global Technology Summit, click on www.reuters.com/summit/Tech13) By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 (Reuters) - A year after Facebook Inc's fumbled IPO, Wall Street remains slow to recognize what Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg argues has been an across-the-board improvement in its business. Facebook's ability to ...
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Rockets Lazada gets $100 million in bid to be Southeast Asias Amazon
(Reuters) - Lazada, the Southeast Asian online retail company founded by Germany's Rocket Internet Gmbh, has secured another $100 million from investors in its bid to lift the region from its status as an e-commerce ...
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Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs
more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social network moves about 1,000 times as much data between the servers inside its data centers as it does from its servers out to end users, company ...
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Anti-social media app helps you avoid other people
Hell is other people " might be of some interest to you. The cheeky new app, billed "an experiment in ant-social media," leverages a user's own social network to decrease the likeliness of actually crossing paths with someone in it. Operating based on Foursquare check-ins, the site tracks your contacts, plots their locations on a map, and automatically calculates ...
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Kobe Bryant Statue in China Sets Twitter Abuzz
L.A. Lakers Player Beats Strange Defamation Claim Over TMZ-Related Tweet Outside the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts' Sculpture Museum stands the seemingly misplaced statue of Bryant, dressed in his Lakers uniform with a basketball under his ...
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Twitter buys Spindle to thread in location discovery tools
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) - Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what's happening with local businesses and organizations around them. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, could help Twitter beef up its efforts to keep users "in the loop." The company has been rumored to be working on its own location ...
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Italian killed fighting in Syria suspected of recruiting terrorists
Italian officials said an Italian Muslim convert who was killed fighting against the Syrian government was believed to have recruited terrorists in Italy. Prosecutors in Genoa Wednesday said Giuliano Ibrahim Delnevo, 24, allegedly recruited one Italian Muslim convert and three North Africans with online sermons and a blog, ANSA of Rome reported. The five men were being investigated for ...
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Yahoo rejects fears hackers will exploit old user IDs
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:46pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Wednesday downplayed concerns that its plans to recycle inactive user IDs could leave users exposed to hackers, saying only 7 percent of those IDs are tied to actual Yahoo email accounts. The Internet company, which announced last week it would release user IDs that ...
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Imagen Awards nominate Chicago Fire Scandal Greys Anatomy for Latino Portrayals
Tio Papi " are among the nominees for the 28th annual Imagen Awards, which honor portrayals of Latinos and Latino culture in TV and film. Among the actors nominated by the Imagen Foundation ...
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Simons Victory is Tweet Social media helps co-ops conquer AHS bureaucracy
EDMONTON - Call it, if you like, a taste of Alberta Spring.On Tuesday, three innovative Edmonton housing co-ops won a huge political and moral victory when they compelled the Alberta government and Alberta Health Services to reverse plans to privatize home care for their disabled residents.The plan would have forced the three self-administered, not-for-profit co-ops to fire all their dedicated ...
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Gillian Shaw Twitter opening ‘global centre of excellence’ in Vancouver
Twitter is hiring computer science graduates for a "global centre of excellence" the social networking company is opening in Vancouver. ...
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Rape charges brought against three Navy football players
Three U.S. Naval Academy football players Wednesday were charged with raping a female midshipman and lying in an official statement. The suspects' names were not made public by academy officials, The Washington Post reported. Their names won't be released officially until a preliminary hearing expected to take place this summer, military law experts told the newspaper. The female ...
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How to hide your data from the NSA
>Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow his updates on Twitter or add him to your Circles on Google+.(CNN) -- Let's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. But having concerns about NSA cybersnooping doesn't mean we must surrender all privacy -- what's left of it -- in our day-to-day online ...
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Facebook fans name Busch Gardens lion cub sisters
TAMPA -- Busch Gardens recently welcomed three lion cubs to the park, a boy and three girls. After a weeklong poll, 6,000 Busch Gardens Tampa Facebook fans voted to name the two lion cub sisters. The winning names for the three-month-old cubs are Shaba, meaning "brazen", and Shtuko, meaning "twitch." The Busch Gardens animal care team has started introducing the cubs ...
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NBA star turns to Twitter to sells his bulldog
He tweeted Tuesday: "Hey I have a English bulldog and he to big to be around my youngest child he 10 months got his papers and he got a micro ...
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Brands Can Use Images in Facebook Comments Too
What's more, brands are going to be able to respond to consumers' Facebook comments with images of their own, per a source close to the ...
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Baseball Legend Vin Scully Pinch Hits on Twitter
Long before the Internet and ESPN put every pitch and hit in your face and at your fingertips, Vin Scully's voice was the tenor of American baseball. For decades, beginning with the team's early days in Brooklyn, he gave radio listeners and TV audiences the play-by-play as the L.A. Dodgers tried to best other senior circuit ...
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Twitter Snags Local Social Discovery Firm Spindle
"We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: 'What’s happening nearby right now?' Every time we’ve experimented and looked beyond local discovery, we’ve been amazed by the breadth and quality of content shared on Twitter. By joining forces with Twitter, we can do so much more to help you find interesting, ...
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Sources say Samsung may have declined to produce the next Facebook phone
solid device, but it didn't sell well despite (or because of?) its inclusion of Facebook Home right out of the box. It looks like Samsung has been paying attention because, as ...
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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