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Florida parents turn to Internet to help daughter charged with sex with girl minor
ORLANDO - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolmate, was another girl.By late Monday afternoon, almost 100,000 people had signed ...
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Boston Scientific competitor calls the cops to seize illegal stents in Germany
A stent is a tiny mesh tube implanted during an angioplasty procedure improve blood flow. A Hong Kong-based medical device manufacturer thats been accusing Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) of patent infringement since at least 2009 upped the ante last week, seizing more than 190 heart stents from a BSX site in Germany with the help of police. OrbusNeich Medical Inc., which has U.S. offices in ...
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How a Twitter debate led to one theatres money-back guarantee
in Vancouver, he wants to know - and he'll refund the price of your ticket."If we're a young, innovative, energetic theatre company that is trying to do the best work that we can, why wouldn't we back our work with something like a money-back guarantee?", says McMullen. "Are we going to be so afraid of people disliking our work that we will, in fact, lose money on ...
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Legislature wont refill angel-credit pot but OKs $12M for 2014
A plan to add capacity to the state's angel-investor tax credit program died in the waning hours of the Minnesota legislative session. Minnesotas pool of angel-investor tax credits will remain dry through the end of the year. The state ran out of credits for the program which provides tax credits to investors who put money into startup companies this month, but a Senate proposal was poised ...
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First South Florida Technology Summit to be held Wednesday
The first South Florida Technology Summit will offer attendees an opportunity to learn about the hottest gadgets and to prepare for future tech advancements with workshops, tutorials, presentations, keynotes and exhibits. The annual technology summit, which is presented by TigerDirect.com in collaboration with The LAB Miami and Refresh Miami, will take place from 1 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday at the ...
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Compare Metrics completes $4.2M Series A funding
Software maker Compare Metrics Inc. has completed a $4.2 million Series A round of funding. The Austin-based company disclosed that investors included Austin Ventures LP and several angel investors, according to a Tuesday news release. Compare Metrics, founded in 2010 as Compare Networks LLC, develops search tools to e-commerce websites with a white-label product discovery platform. Company ...
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Social Media Initiatives Should Follow Customers Lead
social media platforms they use. "Survey your customers," says Sue Kirchner. "If they're not big on Facebook or Twitter, there's no need for you to spend a lot of time there. If your customers all are on , ask how often they use it. Only 10-20 percent of LinkedIn users are active," says Kirchner, a ...
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Shady Dealings Eminem Publisher Sues Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg 's musical tastes and Eminem himself accused of plagiarism. At issue is the 'Airplane' ad created by the Wieden + Kennedy agency, and used to launch Facebook's new mobile software, Facebook Home, last month. According to Eight Mile Style, the song sounds an awful lot like the 2001 song 'Under the Influence', by Eminemand members of D12 - and the ...
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Designing a Content Strategy to Destroy Your SEO Nemesis
Do you do SEO for a brand involved in a straight fight with another company? It's pretty common for brands to become fixated on one particular competitor; I've seen entire marketing strategies geared towards beating another brand, rather than hitting a specific revenue target. While some would argue it's unhealthy to define any market as a two-horse race (especially in ...
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A really cheap way to mess up your search engine ranking
Bob Gilmour is The SEO Answer Man and the SEO Manager for Web Solutions of America. His background is engineering, with 15 years of experience in Internet marketing and SEO. When he is not solving terrible website problems for business owners, he loves car racing and skydiving. In this new series, Bob Gilmour the SEO Answer Man answers your questions about Internet marketing and SEO. Question: ...
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Syrian hacktivists hijack Telegraphs Facebook Twitter accounts
were hijacked by pro-Assad hacktivists from the Syrian Electronic Army briefly on Monday evening. The UK broadsheet's Facebook account was also purloined by group in the latest in a growing line of similar attacks against high-profile media outlets including ...
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Smart Village promotes open access network
Smart Village, a MultiChoice-owned company specialising in large-scale deployments of fibre-to-the-home multi-service networks, will soon be promoting an open access network to ISPs in 56 residential estates throughout SA. "We have a strong national footprint in last-mile infrastructure, with over 11000 homes and businesses already connected and enjoying our fully integrated multimedia, ...
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Israels Facebook community numbers 4m real users
Israel's Facebook community numbers four million real users, who enter the social networking site at least once a month, and are not fake profiles. 60% of the Israeli users, 2.4 million people, enter Facebook daily, according to the company's official figures. 52% of Israeli Facebook users are men and 48% are women. People aged 18-24 are the biggest segment by age, accounting for 30% ...
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Merger Monday -- Yahoo GrubHub Websense But What About Twitter and Microsoft
and Tumblr, Seamless North America and GrubHub, and Vista Equity Partners announced acquisition of Websense. Stand alone deals are always interesting given the potential response - some companies do nothing, others quickly put other companies into play while others up the ante for an existing transaction. Historically, however, big acquisitions tend to realize the big synergies -- better known ...
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Google+ in the SERPs Increasing Authorship Adoption High Data
author information in the SERPs . Since doing so, much has been written about the importance of ensuring search marketers have taken steps to set up authorship in Google+. Intuitively, it makes sense that greater attention is drawn to search results with pictures on them ...
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Share Dialog Comes To Facebook For iOS SDK
pushing Open Graph in a big way on mobile going forward. Part of those plans involved the Share Dialog – a tool that allows users to share on Facebook without having to login. It was only available as a limited beta at the time, but now all iOS developers can take advantage of ...
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Ascent Solar launches retail business in Colorado
Victor Lee, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies Inc., holds the companys EnerPlex Kickr IV, a flexible solar-power panel capable of charging phones, music players and other small, electronic equipment. Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. today said it has launched a retail presence in Colorado for its EnerPlex line of consumer solar products. The Thornton-based maker of flexible thin-film photovoltaic ...
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How To Be Hilarious On Twitter From A Writer Who Tweeted Her Way To TV
One of the funniest and most popular comedic voices on Twitter, "Parks and Recreation" writer Megan Amram knows her way around a one-liner. Here, she shares her tips for how to be funny in 140 characters or ...
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Twitter’s Fred Graver On 5 Ways To Engage Second Screen Viewers
One of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, Fred Graver, talks about how TV producers can embrace Twitter for turning fans into empowered ...
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BizNext 7 things you need to know 05.21.13
Square on Monday introduced Square Cash, initially invitation only, where you can send cash via email to anyone by cc:ing pay@square.com. Square takes a 50-cent cut of each transaction as it tries to compete with PayPal. Apple CEO Tim Cook will testify at a Senate hearing this morning in Washington, D.C., about taxes and the company's cash hoard overseas following the release of a study that ...
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Elon Musk Were repaying the government on Wednesday
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying back the company's $465 million U.S. Department of Energy loan early, and with interest. Tesla plans to repay its U.S. Department of Energy loan this weekon Wednesday, to be exact. In a tweet Monday, CEO Elon Musk wrote, "Given govt loan repayment this week (prob Wed), Supercharger update will be next week. Tesla borrowed $465 million in government money, ...
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Reputation.com co-founder raises $10M for ConsultingMD
ConsultingMD, led by Reputation.com co-founder Owen Tripp, has raised $10 million from Venrock. Owen Tripp set out to protect people's online reputation with his first startup, Reputation.com. Now he is out to protect their health with his new startup, ConsultingMD. "I have a passion for solving big problems," Tripp told me in an interview on Monday. "We started ConsultingMD to ...
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Google kills floundering Google Checkout asks people to use Google Wallet instead
Google this week announced it was killing Google Checkout, the company's PayPal competitor. Google would like to migrate its Checkout customers over to Google Wallet, pictured. Google is killing Checkout, the companys 7-year experiment in improving online payment processing. The service will die on Nov. 20. In the meantime, the search giant is asking existing Google Checkout customers to ...
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TiVo beats Q1 expectations on surprise subscriber growth
Alviso-based TiVo beat Wall Street's expectations in the first quarter, narrowing its quarterly loss to $10.3 million. Shares of TiVo got a bump in early trading today, after the Alviso-based company posted first quarter earnings that beat Wall Streets expectations. The company lost $10.3 million (or 9 cents per share) in its most recent quarter. Analysts had expected the company to report a ...
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Iranians face new Internet curbs before presidential election
By Yeganeh TorbatiDUBAI (Reuters) - Iranians are struggling with slower Internet speeds and limited access ahead of an unpredictable presidential election that has put hardline Islamist authorities on alert for possible unrest.Experts and web users say they believe the Internet obstacles are related to the June 14 presidential vote, the first since 2009 polls in which accusations of fraud - ...
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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