Watch out, Pinterest. Facebook is testing a new feature called Collections, which is designed to give businesses a venue where they can showcase and sell their products. Pottery Barn is one of the businesses participating in Facebook's ...
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After carefully working with China for the past two years, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt bluntly predicted the fall of the Great Firewall of China. "I believe that ultimately censorship fails," Schmidt said in an interview last week with ...
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Yahoo's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, is expected to unveil her plan to turn around the ailing Internet company on Tuesday. Industry analysts say it's time for Mayer, who joined Yahoo in July, to lay out a vision for the company's future that ...
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Qualcomm saw a double-digit increase in sales this year and is now the world's third-largest chip maker, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. With a 27.2% growth in semiconductor revenue, Qualcomm is booming while seven of the top 10 ...
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With voting open on Facebook's proposed privacy policy changes, more than 110,000 users have weighed in -- and so far, the vote is heavily in favor of not making the change at all. Facebook historically had a rule that any proposed policy ...
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Marissa Mayer, a longtime Google executive, has been named the next CEO at Yahoo. Marissa Mayer, vice president, search products and user experience for Google, will be the new CEO of Yahoo. The 37-year-old self-described "geek" is ...
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With Microsoft's new Outlook.com free email service getting so much attention, will Google and Yahoo need to update their own email offerings before they start to lose users? Google's Gmail will need some updates to grab a piece of the ...
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As their company's stock continued to slump, Facebook executives had to face not one but two other pieces of tough news this week. Just as an angry third-party developer blasted Facebook's allegedly high-handed negotiation tactics in an ...
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Computerworld - With Intel reporting a year-over-year drop in revenue and profit for its third quarter, industry analysts say the company isn't in trouble but it needs to ward it off -- and now. Late on Tuesday, Intel execs blamed a tough ...
Challenge anyone to name a landmark tour from the 1980's and many will say Peter Gabriel's So tour. Lighting fixtures played a starring role on that tour 30 years ago, interacting with Gabriel from a number of strategically placed lighting ...
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After backing off a controversial change to its Terms of Use policy,Instagram may have avoided a debacle but is still taking a big hit to its once glossy image. Analysts,however,say users are probably too addicted to what is becoming one ...
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On Marissa Mayer's first day in the big chair at Yahoo, she has to figure out which problem to tackle first in order to right a company that has been buffeted by scandal, financial trouble and, possibly worst of all, growing market ...
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The National Rifle Association is dealing with the double-edge sword of social media by taking down its Facebook page and going silent on Twitter in the wake of the tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The NRA, a lobbying ...
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UK-First the champagne flowed at the Martin Professional stand at Earl's Court in London in celebration of the company's 25th Anniversary,then it flowed again a short time later when the MAC Viper Profile won a PLASA Award for Innovation,in ...
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As Olympic athletes take to a global stage in London this week, participants, coaches and fans are expected to take to their favorite social networks in record numbers. Whenever something big happens -- tornadoes, political unrest, the ...
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