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Twitter amps up program to display videos in your timeline
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Twitter users may see more videos start to pop up in their timelines. The microblogging site has already worked with companies to display videos in their tweets. ESPN and Ford Fusion teamed up to show instant replays in tweets during college football games. Turner Sports, the NCAA, AT&T, and Coke Zero united to tweet real-time video highlights ...
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Twitter doubling revenue An investors dream
current valuation is almost $10 billion . But unlike the disappointment that became Facebook, the value may be low enough, and revenue growing fast enough, that investors will ultimately be satisfied -- when Twitter finally decides to hold its ...
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Twitters TV Ad Targeting Uses Video Fingerprinting
Via a data dashboard, digital marketers can see in real time when their spots air and what resulting tweet activity occurs about either the brand or TV show. Then, at least in theory, they can more intelligently target Twitter users with Promoted Tweets based on who tweeted about the commercial or show. Per the San Francisco-based firm, marketers can use the data to inform not only the ...
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Imo.im raises $13.3 million from company cofounder
Mobile- and desktop-based messaging app imo.im raised $13.3 million this week to compete with bigger incumbents like WhatsApp. Palo Alto-based messaging app imo.im this week closed a $13.3 million round of funding, led by the companys cofounder (and early Google employee) Georges Harik. The messaging space is incredibly crowded right now, with big players like Santa Clara-based WhatsApp handling ...
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SRA International promotes David Keffer to corporate controller role
SRA International Inc. promoted its chief financial officer to corporate controller, the Fairfax-based company announced Wednesday. David Keffer will lead the companys accounting organization, including financial reporting, treasury and cash management, accounting systems, and financial planning and analysis. He previously was CFO of the Intelligence, Homeland Security and Law Enforcement, and ...
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Alkermes posts fourth quarter gains changes fiscal year
Alkermes CEO Richard Pops Just weeks after biopharmaceutical company Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) released positive preliminary results of a Phase 2 clinical study of its drug to treat major depressive disorder, the Waltham, Mass. and Dublin-based company released even stronger fourth quarter results for its fiscal year ended March 31. The company, which says it will change its fiscal year-end ...
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Marissa Mayers startup shopping spree continues with PlayerScale acquisition
Marissa Mayer on Thursday purchased her 12th company as Yahoo's CEO, acquiring Belmont-based PlayerScale. Another day, another acquisition from Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. The Internet giant on Thursday announced it was buying Belmont-based gaming infrastructure startup PlayerScale. Terms of the deal were not released. Todays news comes just days after Marissa Mayers $1.1 billion acquisition of ...
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Wibidata raises $15 million
WibiData, a maker of technology that uses data to make better computer applications, has raised a $15 million in a Series B round of funding led by Canaan Partners, with other investors including NEA and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Founded in 2010 by CEO Christophe Bisciglia, previously founder of the hot data software company Cloudera, and Aaron Kimball, creator of Apache Sqoop, San ...
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Glowing cockroach and social media lacewing
A glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are among the top 10 newly discovered species selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. A global committee of taxonomists - scientists responsible for species exploration and classification - announced its list to coincide with the anniversary of ...
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The 3 Pillars of SEO in 2013 Content Links and Social Media
A good SEO strategy is the difference between your business easily being found online and getting lost in the noise of thousands of other businesses trying to stand out. With Google's ever-changing algorithm, it can be difficult to know what's effective here and now. In 2013, success in SEO hinges on businesses putting together a robust combination strategy that brings together an ...
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Twitter bumps up log-in security after hacks
Twitter has added a two-step login option to make users' accounts more secure The move comes after multiple high-profile hacks The AP, Burger King, Jeep and The Wall Street Journal are among recent hacking victims Security pro says many of those targeted won't use the new ...
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Google Doodle Salutes North West Mounted Police on 140 Years
Google Doodle celebrating the 140th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For Canadian history buffs, it is actually the date of the founding of the North West Mounted Police, which would merge in 1920 with the Dominion Police to become the police force known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Google Doodle features an RCMP officer in the famous Red Serge dress uniform. It ...
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Clean Harbors stands by to help with Oklahoma tornadoes
Clean Harbors is on standby and may be deployed to assist in the clean up of the damage, shown here at Plaza Elementary School, caused by the Oklahoma tornadoes. Norwell, Mass.-based environmental management firm Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) is on standby in the efforts to clean up Mondays devastation in Oklahoma from tornadoes that killed 24 and caused millions of dollars in damage. Jim Buckley, ...
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Auctioning .art New top level domains could sell for tens of millions of dollars
Top-level domain auction house Cramton Associates created a word cloud to visually represent the domains with the most applications. Bellevue-based Donuts will be part of 63 private auctions of some of these words in June. Great art has always been valuable, but the word art itself may never have been more valuable than it will be this summer. The right to distribute some of the most attractive ...
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InnovateVMS startups report $43 million in 2012 revenue
Phyllis Ellison, executive director, Innovate Venture Mentoring Service Innovate Venture Mentoring Service (IVMS) last night celebrated its sixth birthday and released an annual report that tracks the progress of the companies the organization has mentored. The mentor group is part of the non-profit Innovate St. Louis and has actively mentored 187 companies since its inception. The event last ...
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10 things Martha Stewart taught me about business
We also found out at Tuesday's Face 2 Face event that Martha Stewart is a bit of techie but knows its limits. Read more here. Earlier this week as part of the ABJs Face 2 Face event series, I spent an hour with Martha Stewart talking almost exclusively about business. This is an entrepreneur who has amassed a reported net worth of $638 million as she has built one of the worlds most ...
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Twitter Rolls Out Account Security
has announced a two-factor authentication system it says will protect users' accounts from being hacked even if someone has obtained their password. Under the system, Twitters users will need both their password and a verification code sent to them as a text message on their mobile phone, SlashGear reported Wednesday. Users will need to enable the feature by going into their Account ...
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Internet Explorer uses its ongoing Vine series to tease future WebGL support
Windows 8.1 provided a pretty strong clue that Microsoft intends to support WebGL in Internet Explorer 11, but so far the software giant has stayed silent on such matters. However, a new Vine clip -- part of an on-going series titled "Not your Father's Browser" -- drops a pretty big hint that WebGL (Web Graphics Library) support is definitely on its ...
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In battle against hackers like the Syrian Electronic Army Twitter introduces extra security measures
With the microblogging site's new "two-factor authentication," users can choose heightened security. It will send users who opt in a text message when they try to sign in, containing a code which they will then submit, confirming that they are the rightful users of the account.The changes were announced on the site's official blog, and come after a series of high-profile ...
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GameStops mobile digital sales rise earnings drop
GameStop reported an increase in digital and mobile sales but a decrease in earnings during its first quarter. GameStop Corp. reported a jump mobile and digital sales during its first quarter, but the companys earnings and sales of new software and hardware are still on the decline. The Grapevine-based gaming company reported a 290 percent increase in mobile sales of $46.8 million during its ...
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The Myth of Content Marketing the New SEO Penguin 2.0
"What Should Lead Your Online Marketing Strategy: SEO or Content". "Why Content Marketing is the New SEO". "Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO?" "Content Marketing is the New SEO " These are actual titles from article in the top search results for [content marketing and ...
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Kim Dotcom threatens to sue Twitter others over patent
The controversial MegaUpload founder claims he holds the patent for two-factor authentication and all he wants from the tech companies is money for his ...
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Amazon expands Kindle Fire sales to 170 countries
Amazon.com Inc. said its Kindle Fire tablets are now available for preorder in more than 170 countries, with its app store online in nearly 200, PCWorld reports. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping the lower-priced tablets, the strongest challenge yet ...
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Forerun teams up with BIDMC to remedy patient chart chaos
Forerun founders include, from left, Dr. Larry Nathanson, informatics director in the emergency room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Dr. Jason Tracy, an emergency room supervisor; and Mark Chalek, technology ventures officer at the hospital. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has been working with engineers at Forerun Inc. to find a way to make the flow of patient charts more ...
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Patels firm acquires Novel Infosolutions
Tanveer Patel's company Concert Care has acquired an Indian company called Novel Infosolutions. A small and still relatively new Birmingham firm created to help more modest-sized medical practices improve operations will significantly grow its team and services this year with the acquisition of another firm from Chennai, India. Entrepreneur Tanveer Patel, the CEO of Concert Care, told me ...
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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