The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved social network Facebook's proposed acquisition of mobile photo-sharing service Instagram. The approval comes a week after the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) cleared the deal, giving ...
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A year after Google+ was launched, it seems Google is saying it's not really a social network after all. Now this might be confusing to the 150 million people who actively use Google+ every month. They catch up with colleagues and friends ...
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Skype today launched a new platform to enable small businesses to connect with one another and potential customers. Named Skype in the workspace, the website enables businesses to set themselves up with an online presence and begin ...
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Computerworld - Twitter has issued its first report about the requests it received this year from various governments for user information, and its responses. The U.S. government asked for information about far more users than any other ...
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As mobile devices and social media put down ever deeper roots in IT, businesses are seeing big changes in how employees do their jobs and how customers interact with them, in addition to--ideally--using the technologies to find new revenue ...
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A new, free hurricane app from the American Red Cross offers location-based NOAA weather alerts and lets users send a one-touch "I'm safe" message via social networks to family and friends in an emergency. This screenshot shows the ...
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Google has acquired Wildfire Interactive, a social media marketing company, aiming to creating new opportunities for its clients to engage with people across all social services, it said Tuesday. Started four years ago, Wildfire in ...
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As Hurricane Sandy roars up the East Coast, residents, news organizations and government agencies are taking to social networks to get their messages out. The hurricane is bearing down, bringing rain, wind gusts over 70 mph and flooding. ...
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Computerworld - Twitter is basking in the Olympic spotlight, with athletes tweeting about the games and fans around the world offering their support on the social network. Social networks from Facebook to Google+ are seeing numerous users ...
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As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a ...
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Microsoft and Google are each taking steps to extend the social networking capabilities in their search services, with the goal of making it easier to find or share useful results. Bing search results will now include tips and ...
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IBM, the leader in Smarter Commerce, and Toshiba TEC Corporation, Japan's leading maker of point-of-sale systems and related technology for retailers, announced a definitive agreement under which Toshiba TEC will acquire IBM's Retail Store ...
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Online social networks are gathering information about their users that those people never intended to disclose, and government regulation may be the only way to stop the practice, a researcher said Tuesday. People deliberately disclose a ...
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ReaSoft Network Firewall 3: Corporate Firewall with DLP elements ReaSoft Development has announced the release of ReaSoft Network Firewall 3, a new version of its popular solution for corporate Internet access management and network ...
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Springbok Casino, South Africa's premier online gaming portal, just announced an iPod nano giveaway. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, June 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Springbok Casino, South Africa's premier online gaming portal, just ...
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