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Pandora Launches New Facebook Integration
Pandora announced the launch of new Facebook integration for iPhone, Android and Pandora.com, which lets users publish their music activity to Facebook, where it will add content to Facebook’s recently launched music section. ';While we've offered social features that allow you to explicitly share your Pandora stations and music discoveries to Facebook for some time, ...
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Pearson agrees $75 million settlement in U.S. e-books case
LONDON (Reuters) - Pearson's Penguin said on Wednesday it would pay $75 million in damages plus costs and fees as part of an agreement with the United States over alleged price-fixing in the e-book ...
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Pandora tunes up music sharing via Facebook
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Pandora listeners can now more easily share their favorite tunes with their Facebook friends. ...
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Medical device developer Inova Labs raises $12M financing
Inova Labs Inc. has completed a $12 million round of financing from six investors. Austin-based Inova Labs Inc. has completed a $12 million round of financing. The medical device developer collected the capital from six investors, according to a Wednesday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Inova Labs, which launched in 2002, is an affiliate of International Biophysics ...
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Juniper Seagate join Trinity in $10M Cloudscaling round
Cloudscaling, led by CEO Michael Grant, raised $10 million in a round that included Juniper Networks and Seagate Technology as new investors. "Elastic cloud" startup Cloudscaling said on Wednesday that it raised $10 million in a round that included Juniper Networks and Seagate Technology as new investors. They joined existing investor Trinity Ventures in funding the San Francisco-based ...
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Skyhigh Networks pulls in $20M to keep clouds safe
Skyhigh Networks, led by CEO Rajiv Gupta, raised $20 million this week from Sequoia Capital and Greylock Ventures. Skyhigh Networks CEO Rajiv Gupta says most businesses have no idea how many clouds their workers are tapping into nor the risks that may pose. His company just raised $20 million in venture funding and issued a challenge to prove he is right. Cupertino-based Skyhigh guarantees it ...
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Amazon Web Services to add 500 jobs in Fairfax
Amazon Web services, the cloud infrastructure division of Seattle-based Amazon.com, plans to set up a new office in the Herndon area and add 500 new jobs in Fairfax County, officials announced Wednesday. The new facility will "support IT engineering and services for commercial and government customers of AWS cloud services" according to a news release. Governor Bob McDonnell approved ...
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Fighting Facebook A Campaign for a People’s Terms of Service
Facebook's new program will allow anyone to search for, say, "Chinese residents who have family members that like Falun Gong." Ari Melber Facebook is on the defensive again. Members of the social networking site sued the company for co-opting their identities in online ads, and Facebook agreed to revise its "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities" and offer ...
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EV plugin locator app startup Xatori acquired
Xatori, a Palo Alto startup led by CEO Forrest North, has been acquired by Recargo. It's Plugshare app that helps locate electric vehicle plug-in stations will continue with that name and North will become Recargo's chief operating officer. Xatori, whose Plugshare app helps electric vehicle owners find the nearest plug-in station, has been sold to Recargo, a Southern California company ...
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787 Dreamliner back in service at DIA Video
United Airlines Flight 1087 touches down at Denver International Airport on a flight from Houston with 216 passengers at 11:12 a.m. MDT on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, marking the Boeing 787 Dreamliner's return to DIA after its three-month grounding. The Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner returned to passenger service at Denver International Airport Tuesday following its three-month grounding for ...
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Company Solves Social Medias Deceased User Conundrum
MyEbituary LLC has announced the formal launch of myebit.com, a new memorial social media website that uses caretaker cards to allow instant access to a social media user's profile by designated caretakers after the user's passing. "Recent attempts at legislating how deceased user accounts are handled have tried to resolve the problem but MyEbituary believes it has developed an ...
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Marketing Automation Search – 3 Strategies for Mutual Success
Over the past few years, marketing automation has continued to gain influence. For most organizations it's now a crucial piece of the marketing puzzle. This is especially true of the B2B sector. I didn't realize the full capabilities of marketing automation platforms until relatively recently. Since then the revelations have been an ongoing source of excitement. One of the key points ...
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How to Turn Events into Link Building Opportunities
editorial links . One basic PR practice that works well for link building is the 12-month planner. Everything that happens in your industry can create link building opportunities. But if you just react and do things at the last minute, you aren't going to get maximum return for your effort. However, plan ahead and you'll see many opportunities open up – and you'll be able ...
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How Twitter Is Reshaping The Future Of Storytelling
the world's leading futurists about what the world will look like in the near and distant future, and how you can improve how you navigate future scenarios through better forecasting. ...
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Austin co. develops 3-D food printer for NASA
Astronauts may chow down on food produced through a 3-D printer in the near future. An Austin tech company has won a $125,000 grant from NASA to develop a 3-D printer that creates food for astronauts. Systems and Materials Research Corp. received the funding to research combining powders to produce a digital recipe. The printer-produced food would have the same texture and smell as real food, ...
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5 ways technology can energize your business Guest Blog
Whether you are considering putting your entire network into the cloud or only a small piece, recent studies suggest that investing in some type of cloud computing model will free up time and resources to focus on other business priorities. What has technology actually done for you lately? Good question, and one that Im asked a lot. More specifically, Im always being asked how people can use ...
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Stealthy Clique Intelligence raises $5M of planned $20M
Clique Intelligence disclosed in an SEC filing this week that it has raised $5 million of a planned $20 million funding round. Little else is known about the Redwood City startup but a URL with its name is listed with Dreamworks, whose CTO, Lincoln Wallen, is also listed as a company director. Clique Intelligence Inc. said on Tuesday that it raised for the first $5 million of a planned $20 ...
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Westborough startup DiscoverBeauty links patients with plastic surgeons
Dr. Min Ahn, founder of DiscoverBeauty, says he wanted to connect potential patients with cosmetic surgeons in a way that was convenient and comfortable. After he spent a decade running his own practice, Dr. Min Ahn wanted to give patients a way to find and connect with plastic surgeons and dermatologists in New England and to give doctors a way to be selective of which cases they wish to ...
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RadioShack to begin introducing PayPal in all stores
PayPal will be in all RadioShack's stores starting this month. PayPal and RadioShack have entered into a partnership to try to make PayPal a more common way of paying in physical stores, branching out from its online roots, according to Reuters. RadioShack will introduce PayPal into all of the electronic retailer's stores starting this month. PayPal expects to be in 2 million merchant ...
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Indian search engine Just Dials $170 million IPO covered 11.6 times
Wed May 22, 2013 9:26am EDT (Reuters) - Indian local search service provider Just Dial Ltd's up to $170 million initial public offer was subscribed 11.6 times on closing on Wednesday, in what is the biggest IPO in the country so far this year. The response to the equity offering signals strong investor appetite for new shares, although bankers said this would unlikely open up the moribund ...
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Senate OKs legislation to cut business taxes
The Texas Senate passed three bills on Tuesday to cut business taxes. The Senate version of House Bill 500 gives businesses with revenue of less than $1 million a permanent exemption from paying the state's franchise tax, and gives all businesses a 5 percent rate cut over the next two years, the Austin American-Statesman reports. House Bill 800, which gives companies a choice between a ...
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NetApp plans 900 layoffs
NetApp is cutting its global workforce by 900, the Triangle Business Journal reports. The company hasn't confirmed where the bulk of layoffs will occur; There's no word on how many workers in its Overland Park office, 9393 W. 110th St., will be effected. The company did say, however, that the layoffs won't affect its hiring plans in Wichita. Over the next five years, NetApp will add ...
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KC become newest home to ATT wireless security system
Kansas City is now one of the latest homes to AT&T's new wireless home security service, The Kansas City Star reports. The service, dubbed Digital Life, allows customers to control appliances, utilities and door locks from a smartphone. It's a system similar to Time Warner Cable's recently debuted IntelligentHome. The wireless security system industry is pegged to be worth $18 ...
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How to bake a social media disaster
A screen capture of Samy and Amy Bouzaglo, owners of Amys Baking Co. Bakery and Boutique Bistro in Scottsdale, from a photo posted on the company's Facebook page in January 2011. What are the ingredients for a social media public relations disaster? Some of the same traits it takes to be a successful small business: tenacity, drive and focus. When you combine those traits with arrogance, a ...
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UAB physics prof gets $480K grant to study metals used in electronics
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $480,000 to a University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher to investigate the behavior of rare earth metals under extreme conditions and temperatures. A UAB news release said the funding is going to Yogesh Vohra, a physics professor and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. The goal of the project is to predict how the earth metals, which ...
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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