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Would Yahoo or Facebook Make a Better Tumblr Parent
So Adweek asked marketers this afternoon to weigh in on whether Yahoo or Facebook would make a better parent for the site. Responses were split, with slightly more of the small sample contending that Tumblr would thrive more under the stewardship of Mark Zuckerberg's digital ...
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Airbus Boeing will battle for PR at Paris Air Show
Airbus rolled out the first fully painted A350 Monday. With the Paris Air Show just a month away, Airbus may be preparing to try to take the wind away from Boeings resurgent 787 Dreamliner. Airbus rolled out its fully painted and flyable A350 Monday, with engines installed, and this week was starting to run that aircraft through electrical testing. That gives rise to speculation that Airbus will ...
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Video Mark Zuckerberg has lost $5.8 billion in value on his Facebook stock
Mark Zuckerberg has lost $5.8 billion in value on his Facebook stock since the world's leading social network went public just about a year ago. Conway G. Gittens ...
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Syrian group claims role in hacking of Financial Times website Twitter account
The website and several Twitter accounts belonging to The Financial Times were hacked Friday by the Syrian Electronic Army in an ongoing campaign that has targeted an array of media outlets ranging from the Associated Press to the parody site The Onion, according to a claim by the so-called army.The Syrian Electronic Army said it seized control of several FT Twitter accounts and amended a number ...
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A year after lacklustre IPO Facebook looks to become an advertising giant
Facebook's stock finished its first day of trading just 23 cents higher than its $38 (U.S.) IPO price. It hasn't been that high since. (DADO ...
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Hits and misses in Facebooks history
Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company.The social network's market value was more than $100 billion.Now, Facebook's stock is trading roughly 30 percent lower and has not hit its IPO price of $38 per share. Today, Facebook is valued at around $63 billion.In the year since its initial ...
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Honest Toddler Montreal mom shares child-like take on Twitter
From the time we are knee-high, we're taught that honesty is the best policy - and a new book based on a Twitter account has taken that moral code to hilarious new heights. Montreal-area mom Bunmi Laditan has just ...
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How Facebook Makes Money On You All Your Friends
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Tableau CEO after IPO Data is the oil of the 21st century
Tableau CEO Christian Chabot stands next to one of the many "kraken" designs throughout his company's Seattle headquarters in Seattle."The Kraken" octopus is a reference to the code name Tableau uses for its Tableau version 8.0 application. Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot may have made more than $12 million this morning when his company made its initial public offering ...
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Facebook Treats Radiohead Fans To Thom Yorke-Approved Solo Cover
This cover of Radiohead’s 15 Step appeared on YouTube back in January, but got some extra attention today when frontman Thom Yorke himself (or at least whoever runs his Facebook page) shared it with ...
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UPDATE 3-Syria government supporters hack Financial Times
Fri May 17, 2013 4:53pm EDT * Headlines sabotaged, link posted to execution video * Latest in series of hacker attacks on news media By Jim Finkle and Jennifer Saba May 17 (Reuters) - The Financial Times' website and Twitter feeds were hacked on Friday, renewing questions about whether the popular social media service has done enough to tighten security as cyber-attacks on the news media ...
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Treadmills happy hours and family What startup founders neglect
SURF Incubator startup founders talk about what they've neglected since starting their companies. In light of SURF (Start Up Really Fast) Incubators one-year anniversary in its downtown Seattle space, I spoke to a group of entrepreneurs whose companies are incubating there. I asked them what their companies needed most, what the Seattle startup community needs, and what they wished theyd ...
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Syrian hackers compromise FT blog Twitter feeds
A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which has regularly targeted media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country's rebels.A few of the FT's dozens of Twitter feeds and blogs broadcast messages supporting Syrian ...
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The Whos Who at Facebook
Facebook went public a year ago, the spotlight was on three principal characters: CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg, and CFO David Ebersman. The three C-suiters were on the public stage throughout the company's road show presentations to potential investors, and literally on stage together as they rang the opening bell the day of its IPO. Zuckerberg and Sandberg have had a ...
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Social media jumps on Google glasses
SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook and Twitter launched applications Thursday for Google glasses as developers rushed to learn more about tailoring software for the Internet-linked eyewear yet to hit the ...
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Rices OwlSpark startup accelerator launches first class
OwlSpark, Rice University's three-month startup accelerator, is supported by 60 mentors who will help companies improve their business plans and find investors. OwlSpark, Rice Universitys startup accelerator, began its first class May 16 and has high hopes of launching eight game-changing technology companies. OwlSpark is one of Houston's many new accelerators, which are essentially boot ...
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Tech community Wisegate collects $2.8M financing
Online technology community operator Wisegate Inc. raised $2.8 million of a planned $3.4 million financing. The Austin-based company collected the capital from 23 investors, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Wisegate, which was founded in 2007 as CDG Software Inc., operates an online community designed to enable IT professionals to exchange ideas and ...
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1 year later Facebook stock remains below IPO price
A year after Facebook's flashy IPO that valued the company at $104 billion, investors are skeptical about the company's future. The company has seen a devastating drop in its stock price over the past 12 months. The shares were trading hands at just over $26 on Friday, a long way off form the $38 IPO price, a level the stock has indeed never crossed. The underwhelming IPO was one of ...
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Mark Hulbert Is it time to buy Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook, speaks during the remote opening bell ringing ceremony for the opening of trading at the Nasdaq MarketSite, on May 18, ...
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Is Liking Something On Facebook An Act Of Free Speech
Last year, a Virginia judge ruled that a Facebook ';like'; is not protected by the First Amendment. The story goes like this: Deputy Sheriff Daniel Ray Carter of Hampton, Virginia "liked" the page of "Jim Adams for Hampton Sheriff." Carter’s boss, Sheriff B.J. Roberts, saw this, and then when Roberts won the election against Adams, Carter was fired. Carter ...
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Twitter teams with NBA to offer in-tweet pro hoops replays
During the rest of the NBA playoffs, NBA Digital will be posting video highlights of notable plays. This comes days after a similar arrangement with ...
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App Reviews Twitter Music Google Now
Twitter took the wraps off a much-anticipated music service last month, which is supposed to make it easy for users to find new music and keep up with their favorite artists in the process. Users can listen to four types of songs: music that's popular on the network, songs from "emerging" artists, songs from the people your friends follow and, finally, music from the artists you ...
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Risky business Top entrepreneurs bet on Houston
Vijay Goradia, founder and chairman of Vinmar International Ltd., won the Houston Technology Center's 2013 top lifetime achievement award for entrepreneurship. Click through the slideshow to see the other winners. There seemed to be one common theme that ran through the winners' acceptance speeches at the Houston Technology Centers lifetime achievement awards: Houstons entrepreneurial ...
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No cash for TriMet Use your phone
TriMet launched beta testing of a mobile ticketing service from GlobeSherpa on May 16. You know that TriMet ticket scramble? The one where your bus is minutes away and you don't have cash or a bus ticket? It could soon be a thing of the past. TriMet today launched beta testing of a mobile ticketing system from Portland-startup GlobeSherpa that allows riders to pay fares using a smartphone. ...
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Report passion trumps money for small businesses
Pixelspoke's Cameron Madill's company helped design the State of the Business Owner 2013 survey's methodology. A new small business study, engineered by two Oregon firms, suggests that entrepreneurs are more driven by the potential for freedom and the chance to work at a job they love than they are by money. The 2013 State Of The Business Owner Report, released by Ashland-based ...
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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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