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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The new Moshi Monsters Light Buddies will launch exclusively in The Entertainer first. The 99p RRP products will roll out to Toys R Us and other High Street retailers soon after. Zappar has teamed up with Milkshake and Mind Candy to ...
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Twitter has confirmed that it acquired Bluefin Labs, a vendor of data that uses commentary on social networks to measure the effectiveness of commercials and programs on TV. "We believe that Bluefin's data science capabilities and social ...
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Africa has become a battleground for low-to-mid-range smartphones following high-profile launches of products from leading manufacturers in the last two months. In Kenya last month, Safaricom, the region's largest mobile carrier, launched ...
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Samsung has launched a new series of “smart feature phones” called REX, which the firm will sell in emerging markets. Countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China will drive much of the volume growth in the ...
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Twitter lit up with activity during last night's State of the Union address as users, including journalists and politicians, turned to the social network. President Obama, in his fifth State of the Union address, touched on hot topics ...
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Twitter will soon give developers the ability to filter messages by popularity and language. The company said in a blog posting Wednesday that it will add two new fields to the public metadata it associates with messages on its service, ...
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A bug redirected people from third-party websites integrated with Facebook to Facebook.com. for a short period of time, the social networking website said Thursday. The temporary glitch, which affected users on Thursday afternoon, ...
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The Mega file-sharing service has launched a vulnerability reward program that will pay up to 10,000 euros (around $13,600) for every serious security flaw found in the platform and reported responsibly. The rules of the program were laid ...
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New software capable of dredging social media websites, mining people's social networks and "predicting their behaviour", has been developed by defence contractor Raytheon. The software, called Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT), ...
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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Apple is testing designs for a watch capable of operating as a smartphone-like device, according to people claiming inside knowledge on the matter. Both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times cite sources that say Apple is ...
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Yahoo has agreed to acquire the development team of mobile app company Propeld, the third mobile start-up it has bought in four months. As first reported by TechCrunch, Propeld's Alike app allows users to discover and recommend nearby ...
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Launching officially in the US in February 2013, Missguided USA is a fresh face in the world of women’s e-tailers that strives to produce the latest fashion trends as they happen, at an unbeatable price point. The Missguided brand ...