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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 ...
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Modi most popular leader on social media Study
thrice as many mentions as Rahul Gandhi. The BJP leader was cited over 10 lakh times. However, in percentage terms, Rahul Gandhi's share of demographics between 18-34 years was marginally ahead of Modi. While Modi led the pack in overall reach, he had the lowest reach per author, according to the report. DMK leader M Karunanidhi scored the highest on that front. The graphs in the report ...
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Facebook stock jumps in three seconds Nanex
+0.41% stock jumped almost a dollar a share in three seconds Wednesday afternoon, according to Eric Hunsader, CEO of Nanex, a provider of real-time data to traders. In the three seconds starting at 3:33:54 p.m., the social networking company's stock increased from $24.40 a share to $25.19 a share, before quickly dropping back down to $24.40 a share. There were 2 million shares traded in ...
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Twitter Acquires Mobile App 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, timely, ...
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Twitter acquires Spindle and shows more interest in local discovery
acquired Spindle, a mobile application for learning about what's happening nearby, the companies announced Wednesday. "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?'," the startup said in a blog ...
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Facebook weaves new network fabric
(Credit: Facebook) Facebook has a communication problem. The apps are talking the network but with limited context and bottlenecks inside its data centers. Now, the social network is planning to improve the communication with a new networking fabric to serve its 1.1 billion users. "Networking is built around ISP networks and protocols for interconnecting of ISP networks. It's not ...
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Greenpeace says photos show Iceland has resumed whale hunts
Photographs show Iceland has broken a two-year ban on whale hunting, the environmental group Greenpeace charged Wednesday. "We've just received anonymous photographs showing Iceland has broken the moratorium on commercial whaling, again," Greenpeace said in a Twitter message. The group urged people to share the images "to help expose Iceland's bloody secret." The ...
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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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Mosquito invasion strikes Alaska as state runs low of control supplies
A severe mosquito invasion in south-central Alaska has led to a run on mosquito control products in local stores, Anchorage retailers reported. Although anecdotal evidence abounds about the severity and size of the state's summer mosquito population every year, "mosquito populations are fairly high everywhere," said Janice Chumley of the Kenai Peninsula District office of the ...
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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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Pyongyang threatens action against defectors spreading Hitler story
North Korea threatened Wednesday to punish defectors who claim the Communist country's leaders have attempted to spread Nazi ideology. Security Ministry officials said in a statement they would take "substantial measures to physically remove" people spreading the slander, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. The statement cited a report by an Internet news service ...
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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 ...
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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