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Google Talks Back Conversational Search Available on New Version of Chrome
Chrome this week. Today, I chatted with Google to ask it burning questions like, "How many children does Madonna have?" and "What's the meaning of life?" While Google doesn't quite have the latter down just yet, it was able to comment on the matter, at least superficially (try it and see). The "OK Google" search prompt we heard about at I/O isn't ...
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Twitter Has Marketers And Advertisers In Mind This Week
launched a new Lead Generation card for mareters . Today, the company announced the availability of TV ad targeting, which has been developed through its acquisition of Bluefin Labs. Twitter says it’s designed to make it easier to extend and enhance TV ad campaigns. The offering is now available for Promoted Tweets in limited beta to select partners running national TV commercials in the ...
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Facebook users share 1 billion stories through outside apps
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook highlighted its developer platform on Thursday, throwing out some big numbers around how third-party apps benefit from connecting to users through the social network. The social network opened up its platform to independent developers six years ago Friday, Director of Product Manager Doug Purdy told journalists today at a press conference at Facebook's ...
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Facebook is the New Religion Ashton Kutcher Says
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) - Internet communities are more trustworthy than some big corporations, but mobile is proving a hard nut to crack even for the best of them, actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher told CTIA Wireless Thursday. "Facebook is the new religion," Kutcher said. "It's a deeper trust bond that I have with someone." Mass religions ...
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Yahoos design chief Parsey to depart
Tim Parsey, Yahoo Inc.'s SVP of user experience design, will be leaving his position, according to AllThingsD. Parsey's work as Yahoo's design chief can be seen in the major redesigns of several of the company's products, including the homepage, Flickr, and email, among others. There's no telling what his next stop will be, but it may be seen as a significant loss to Yahoo. ...
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Pandora Media loses $28.6 million in first quarter
Pandora Media Inc. lost $28.6 million in the April quarter, pushing its accumulated deficit -- that's how much money it has lost or written off since it started -- to $168.1 million. The Oakland company (NYSE: P) lost $20.2 million a year ago in the first quarter. Sales rose to $125.5 million in the quarter, up from $80.8 million a year ago, with strong gains in both advertising sales and ...
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Will Phillip Frost bid for TLO in bankruptcy
Phillip Frost, Tom Glocer and Jules Kroll. Wealthy entrepreneur Phillip Frost has joined a new acquisition company making an appearance in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedure of Boca Raton data company TLO LLC. Frosts new company, conspicuously named Data Acquisitions Group LLC, filed papers with the state of Florida on Tuesday. Other members include Jules Kroll of Kroll Inc. and Tom Glocer, ...
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Want To Secure Your Tweet Do The Twitter Two-Step
Twitter hacks have topped the news so far in 2013, as major corporations and news sources have repeatedly had their accounts compromised by either juvenile ne'er-do-wells or ...
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Student jailed for three weeks awaiting trial over Facebook posts
USA A Boston-area teenager remains in custody on $1 million bond nearly one month after being arrested over what he said on the Internet. Eighteen-year-old Cameron B. D'Ambrosio of Methuen, Massachusetts was arrested on May 1 after police were alerted to "disturbing verbiage" on his personal Facebook page discovered by a fellow student at Methuen High School. D'Ambrosio ...
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Ashton Kutcher Media $ Twitter up
"For lack of a better verb, the media came and @&$#%! [expletive deleted] it up," Kutcher said at the CTIA wireless industry trade show in Las Vegas on Thursday. "When I first got on, it felt like the democratization of media. Now it just feels like ...
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China Silicon Valley nonprofit boosts ties Video
Why Silicon Valley is important to China and what San Jose and the region is doing about it, according to Victor Wang of Hanhai Investments and zPark Venture, and Kim Walesh, San Jose's Economic Development. Interviewed by Senior Technology Reporter Cromwell Schubarth after they spoke at the Silicon Valley Business Journal's International Business Forum on May 23. Victor Wang of Hanhai ...
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Googles Top Charts Offer Engaging Visuals for Popular Searches Over Time
Top Charts , allowing users to visualize and share the most-searched people, places, and things in more than 40 categories, all the way back to 2004. Derived from Google’s Knowledge Graph, the data is featured in Google Trends and updates dynamically. Users can choose from categories such as actors, animals, and athletes to scientists, software technology and sports cars. Here’s ...
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Attention non-tech companies Ignore Google+
Businesses overwhelmed with social medias buffet of current options can ignore at least one dish, a Kansas City social media professional advised Thursday. Not having a full-time social media staffer means focusing resources where the customers are, said Alisha Templeton, social media manager for Ameristar Casinos Inc. To be the most efficient, she recommended beginning with Twitter and Facebook ...
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We asked social media pros How do you deal with customer complaints online
How should your business handle customer complaints on social media? We can probably all agree that Amys Bakery in Scottsdale, Ariz., did the wrong thing when faced with criticism on social media. But whats the right thing to do? Ideally, businesses would keep their customers satisfied all the time, but its nearly inevitable that an occasional customer will be unhappy with a product, service or ...
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Messaging app imo.im raises $13.3 million
MSN , Steam, VKontakte and Yahoo. The service enables private and group chat, sharing of multimedia files and photos, voice and text messaging and searching of chat histories. The company claims more than 7 million mobile downloads, 750,000 unique daily visitors and delivery of an average of 50 million messages per ...
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HTC First UK launch postponed because Facebook Home is no good
a report from Engadget. The device is notably a prominent showcase for the Facebook Home experience, but given the amount of negative feedback Facebook's Android overlay got after its US launch, the company plans to overhaul Home before trying to get other countries interested in it. ...
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Twitter targets advertisers with TV tie-ins
With TV ad targeting and Twitter Amplify, the social-media site is making it even easier for advertisers to reach an engaged audience. With 32 million U.S. Twitter users tweeting about television last year, the social-media site is making it even easier for advertisers to reach that engaged audience, launching a TV ad targeting program and announcing partnerships with 16 more companies, ...
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SolarImpulse could inspire a generation pilots say
Pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andr Borschberg stand with a flag marking the historic flight at DFW airport Thursday morning. Breaking the world record for distance in a solar-powered aircraft wasnt easy for Andre Borschberg. The more than 18-hour flight went 860 miles from Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Weather is a constant challenge for the SolarImpulse because of its ...
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Software maker Datical raises $1M financing
From left, Robert Reeves, Daniel Nelson and Pete Pickerill are the founders of Datical Inc. Software maker Datical Inc. completed a $1 million financing. The Austin-based company collected the capital from 10 investors, according to a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Datical, which was founded in 2012, develops database management software. It was launched by ...
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GVTC Foundation raises record amount at its annual golf tournament
The GVTC Foundation raised a record$110,344 for area non-profit agencies during its annual Charitable Golf Classic. The GVTC Foundations 2013 GVTC Charitable Golf Classic raised $110,344 for area non-profit agencies, besting last years record by $1,000. The foundation affiliated with Hill Country telecommunications provider GVTC Communications Inc. will use the funds to support nonprofit ...
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Six ways to bridge the Silicon Valley-China gap
What's your company's strategy for doing business with China? Not news: Chinese investment is pouring into Silicon Valley, and local companies are going after a piece of that action. News: This morning I spoke with six executives at that business crossroads who delivered six tips on bridging cultural and economic divides between Silicon Valley and China. Those were just some of the tasty ...
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St. Louis Social Media-Driven Saga of Larry Conners and KMOV
affiliate KMOV-TV, let's recap. After the news broke about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups during the 2012 election, Conners, the longtime KMOV anchor, hopped on his ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary Woolwich Twitter witness Boya Dee refuses to sell story
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio ...
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‘Bigoted’ Facebook comments about Alberta Sikh parade deleted by Wildrose party
Alberta Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith made a campaign stop at the Dashmesh Cultural Centre where she met with members of Calgary’s Sikh community in this April 22, 2012 file photo. Colleen De Neve/Postmedia News CALGARY -- Alberta Progressive Conservatives are chiding the Wildrose party over comments on the party's Facebook page by people angry at Leader Danielle Smith for ...
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TechStars Boston class touts throng of paying customers slideshow
LinkCycle - Software which aims to help manufacturers reduce energy use, without deploying any extra hardware. The software, which can be used on an iPad, works by mapping the flow of electricity through manufacturing equipment and finding inefficiencies. LinkCycle has five customers so far using the software, in a total of seven facilities. Among the customers is Rubbermaid, which has found $1 ...
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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