Google has purchased news streaming provider Wavii, the start-up's CEO has confirmed, as it immediately shut down its service before being incorporated into the world's number one web firm. The deal, worth an estimated $30m (£18m), ...
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A cybercriminal has taken to selling his malware and related services on Facebook, boldly choosing a public forum to reach potential customers over the secretive world of the online underground. RSA researchers?recently discovered?on the ...
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LinkedIn has revamped the contacts management feature of its professional networking website and packaged the functionality into a new iOS application. The company will begin on Thursday a limited trial of the new LinkedIn Contacts with ...
Technology firms including Facebook and Microsoft have welcomed government plans to provide funding for improving the teaching of computer science in schools. Education minister Elizabeth Truss announced £2m will be set aside to ...
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Nokia's latest advanced feature phone, the Asha 210, comes with a physical key to access WhatsApp messaging, as well as software clients for Twitter and Facebook. The launch of the new member of the Asha family follows Nokia's ...
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AT&T collaborated with a third party wireless infrastructure provider for the installation of new wireless antennas located throughout the grandstands, suites and premium seating areas of the Churchill Downs Racetrack to improve wireless ...
Companies using social networks like Twitter and Facebook need to face what to do during a national crisis like the Boston Marathon bombing. Do you tweet or post a statement about the crisis, continue on with your normal social media ...
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Tumblr is giving its users more options to share their posts across other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, with a new iOS app released Wednesday. Available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, the mobile app lets users ...
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Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies. Pivotal's ...
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THE cIn Motion is a successful marriage of the modern touch-screen smartphone and the iconic BlackBerry keyboard. On BlackBerrys, the keyboard has always been about more than filling in text fields, and the new operating system takes that ...
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US stocks ended a tumultuous day with strong gains after a false tweet briefly sent financial markets veering, underscoring technology's role in tightly linking global markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plunged Tuesday ...
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Even as several states have put in place, or are planning, new laws barring employers from monitoring the social media activities of their employees, one Wall Street regulator is seeking exemptions to such rules for some financial services ...
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Salesforce.com is taking steps to combine its acquisitions in social media monitoring and social advertising with its core CRM (customer relationship management) software through a new product called Social.com. The new product, which was ...
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In a testament to the issues surrounding the appropriate use of social media during a tragedy, Reddit is publicly apologizing for the role that it played last week in fueling an online witch hunt that led to identifying an innocent Brown ...
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Animated GIFs, journal entries, cat photos, and now, more ads. Tumblr, in an effort to further boost its revenue, is rolling out ads into users' mobile feeds. The privately held social-networking and blogging site introduced sponsored ...
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