American Express is rolling out a new service on Twitter that lets card holders make purchases on the social network through specialized tweets. Dubbed "Amex Sync," the technology integration will allow Amex users who sync their cards ...
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Social networks are expected to light up tonight as users react to the president's State of the Union address. President Obama will give the first State of the Union address of his second term at 9 p.m ET. With Obama expected to touch on ...
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Twitter is modifying its search engine to include tweets more than a week old, a move it said will help users uncover better content. Over the next few days, searches will return "a fairly small percentage of total tweets ever sent" but ...
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When there's a blizzard approaching, people flock to grocery stores for bread and milk, test their generators...and nowadays take to Twitter and Facebook. Social networks have lit up with activity as a blizzard of of potentially historic ...
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Twitter has pushed out an update to its mobile app that has a new search tool intended to make it easier for users to find relevant content. The update, released Wednesday, includes several modifications to both the Android and iOS ...
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American Express (Amex) has synced with Twitter to enable its cardholders to tweet specific hashtags to purchase products online. Amex's technology, dubbed Card Sync, had initially been launched in March 2012 to deliver couponless savings ...
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CALABASAS, Calif. — Comedian Howie Mandel getting sent to his room was a good thing for Abbyson Living. Comedian Howie Mandel endorses an Abbyson Living bedroom in this promotional ad. Abbyson, a furniture, rugs and accessories ...
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USA - The first four days of the new year found more than 65,000 college-aged Christians from around the globe flocking to Atlanta's Georgia Dome for Passion 2013, an annual conference of message and music that just raised over 3.3 million ...
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Twitter has officially launched business activities in the MENA region, unveiling a host of regional plans that will be completed in partnership with Connect Ads. Connect Ads will act an extension of Twitter’s own sales team in the ...
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The Super Bowl drove more than 24 million tweets about the game and halftime show, but the night's biggest social networking winners were the companies quick-witted enough to take advantage of the blackout that stopped play for a half hour. ...
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Twitter said its site is back up and running after an outage worldwide knocked out access for some users for nearly three hours today. Starting at 10 a.m. Eastern time, Twitter suffered intermittent downtime and slow page loads that ...
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BlackBerry last night launched BlackBerry 10 across the world – dubbed ‘the re-designed, re-engineered, and re-invented BlackBerry’ platform that creates a new and unique mobile computing experience. Available on two new ...
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The microblogging service announced a new video service that allows users to capture and share brief, looping videos. The service uses the same brevity concept as tweets. Users are only allowed to capture a video in 6 seconds or less, ...
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Last year was the first time the Super Bowl was streamed live online. This year, the Big Game in the Big Easy moves from NBC to CBS, which plans to offer a live stream of the game to desktops, laptops, and tablets on NFL.com and ...
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Microsoft teased the Surface Pro today, hinting that the company will soon announce an on-sale date for its second tablet. "On my way to the factory to check out #Surface Pro coming off the line...arriving in the coming weeks," tweeted ...
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