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Rugby Torrid rants trigger rise of social media usage rules
Just after the 2011 Rugby World Cup, Samoan centre Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu received a six-month ban from the IRB for a series of offensive Twitter rants. After linking the scheduling of the World Cup to slavery, the holocaust and apartheid, Fuimaono-Sapolu went on to label a referee "racist" and "biased", and became one of the first athletes in Oceania to be disciplined over his use of ...
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Salesforce.com launches suite of mobile services for government
Salesforce.com is launching a suite of new mobile services to help federal agencies connect with citizens and employees, FedScoop reports. The new mobile offerings include Rapid Response 311, Mobile Communities for Government, Government Social Command Center and Platform Mobile Services for Government that will help the government connect on any device and any channel, said Dan Burton, the ...
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DISA cancels $45M data contract with Alliance Technology Group
A $45 million sole source contract awarded in April to Alliance Technology Group by the Defense Information Systems Agency has been canceled, according to Nextgov. Under the contract, the Hanover, Md.-based company would store hundreds of billions of satellite and drone imagery files, each packing terabytes of data. However, after the contract was awarded, other vendors responded and based upon ...
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PSEG Praised for Innovative Use of Social Media
Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE:PEG) is a publicly traded diversified energy company with annual revenues of more than $12 billion, and three principal subsidiaries: PSEG Power, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) and PSEG Energy ...
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Intermedia Touch offers insight into its social media strategy
Jonathan Rasch, marketing assistant for Intermedia Touch. Intermedia Touch has thrown its hat into the Social Madness ring. Jonathan Rasch, marketing assistant, offers insight below into the social media strategy of the Miami-based interactive digital signage software and hardware solutions company. Number of followers: Facebook: 368 Twitter: ...
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Woman outed after Twitter brag that she hit cyclist
Emma Way of Norfolk in the U.K. tweets that she hit a cyclist and that she had right of way. The police are informed. Her employer is none too pleased ...
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Smartphone vs. Tablet Commerce 3 Essential Behaviors You May Be Overlooking
Though tablets and smartphones are both considered mobile devices based on their portability, user behavior by device differs greatly – from experience to expectation. With evolving features and functionality, as well as situational needs to consider, there are many unique differences in user behavior by device that can provide marketers with insights on not only the when and where ...
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TiVo loses only $10 million in first quarter
Thomas Rogers, TiVo TiVo Inc. saw its stock price jump this week even after it reported a loss of $10.3 million in the first quarter. How is that possible? It's because the television recording technology company didn't lose the $16 million to $19 million it had expected to lose. TiVo also added some 277,000 subscribers in the quarter, the most in any quarter for seven years. The San ...
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British opposition leader says Google tax behavior wrong
Britain's leader of the opposition Labour party Ed Miliband speaks at the Google big tent event at the Grove Hotel, on the outskirts of London May 22, ...
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Take two Clearwire board backs Sprints new offer
Clearwire Corp.s board and special merger committee are asking shareholders to back Sprint Nextel Corp.s offer again. On Wednesday, Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR) said both groups supported Sprints new offer to acquire Clearwire. Sprint is majority owner of Clearwire, holding just more than 50 percent of its stock. Soon before Clearwire shareholders were set to vote Tuesday on Sprints prior offer of ...
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Lets get personal about how pros use Facebook
I dont use Facebook professionally. To me, trying to bully your way into my Facebook world is like inviting yourself over to my house for dinner. Our energy reporter, Deon Daugherty, recently interviewed the new president of Kinder Morgan Inc., Steve Kean. In the interview she asked the usual get-to-know-you questions that help our readers connect with Houstons top executives. She asked him ...
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QA This man just won $250000 for his startup
Rutvik Mehta, president and CEO of ThermoAura, Inc. says the funding will allow the company to finish building its first manufacturing operations and continues its R&D goals. Rutvik Mehta's childhood science experiments once included trying to ferment oranges. These days, in Troy, he's doing something far less odorousand more important. Mehta, 28, is president, CEO and co-founder of ...
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Exclusive Spear ousted at Arch Grants
Sarah Spear was fired as executive director of Arch Grants on May 15. Sarah Spear has been forced out as the executive director of the Arch Grants business plan competition. Spear said that last Wednesday, one day after a very public ceremony where the organization awarded $1 million in equity-free grants to 20 startups, she had a meeting with Arch Grants founding board members Joe Schlafly and ...
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Acquia $45M in 2012 revenue staff now above 300
Acquia said its revenue more than doubled in 2012, to $45.3 million, compared to the previous year. From left, Acquia co-founder and CTO Dries Buytaert and CEO Tom Erickson. Burlington-based Web publishing software firm Acquia said Wednesday it received $45.3 million in revenue in 2012, more than doubling its top line from the previous year. Acquia also said it has doubled its employee count in ...
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Apple to build U.S.-made Macs in Texas
Fingerprint sensor? See what Apple Inc. has planned for the next iPhone. Production for iPhone 5S expected to begin this summer. When Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook announced late last year that the tech company wanted to bring some manufacturing back to the United States, it raised the question of where? Now we know: Texas. Cook talked about location during his Senate committee appearance yesterday, ...
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Texas reaches settlement with Penguin over E-books
Texas and 32 other states have reached a multistate antitrust settlement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc. over allegations that the company colluded with Apple Inc. over E-book pricing. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and 32 other states and territories have agreed to settle their antitrust lawsuits against Penguin Group (USA) Inc. over allegations Penguin and Apple Inc. colluded to manipulate ...
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DVLA worker axed for using Facebook
A DVLA worker has been fired after he was caught using Facebook on his own phone, official data shows. Managers took action after it emerged the employee accessed the social networking site during office hours last year. The agency has previously laid off three members of staff for making "inappropriate comments" about the DVLA, a colleague or customers, but this appears to be the ...
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Dont make this common social-media mistake
Never put social media in a corner, said Birmingham Business Journal guest blogger Joey Beachum. When it comes to using social media for a business, there are a lot of mistakes that most people know to avoid bad-mouthing a customer, deleting a critical comment or posting risqu pictures on the official company accounts, to name a few. However, what about mistakes we dont even know we are making? ...
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Activists Pressure Companies To Boycott Facebook Over Its Content Promoting Violence Against Women
coalition of sexual violence prevention and women’s equality organizations are joining forces to pressure Facebook to take a stand against any messages that ';trivialize or glorify'; violence against women, which they say the company should recognize as gender-based hate speech. The activist groups — led ...
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Young faces enliven Kuwaits faded art scene
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Kuwaiti graphic designer Mohammad Sharaf talks about his work in his office in Hawalli, May 1, 2013. After two lackluster decades, Kuwait is experiencing a quiet revival of an arts scene ...
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Is Facebook Losing Its Cool Factor
A new study shows teens are flocking to Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and SnapChat because too many adults are using Facebook, reports CNBC's Becky ...
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OsteoGeneX gets nearly $500K grant for bone disease work
The National Institutes of Health awarded $475,076 to OsteoGeneX Inc., a Kansas City, Kan., private pharmaceutical company focused on developing a treatment for osteoporosis. The award is a Small Business Innovation Research grant from a division of NIH called the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. It will be used to continue developing an oral treatment for ...
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Pandora rises following new Facebook sharing ties
-0.23% new music section. Pandora listeners will be able to personalize what they share with options for sharing music stations, specific songs or artists. The new feature comes a day before Pandora is scheduled to report first-quarter results. Analysts surveyed by FactSet have forecast Pandora to report a loss of 10 cents a share on $123.9 million in revenue for the ...
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Twitter Launches Lead Generation Card For Marketers
Twitter cards , in general, let you attach media experiences to tweets, which link to your content. You can add a few lines of HTML to your pages, and those who tweet your content will have a ';card'; added to the tweet. ';The Lead Generation Card makes it easy for users to express interest in what your brand offers. Users can easily and securely share their email address with a ...
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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, ...
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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