• Slim Shady wannabe Zucks Facebook STOLE MY SONG - Eminem

  Eminem laugh all you want, but this man is worth millions The publisher filed a copyright lawsuit this week alleging that a short Facebook advert broadcast during the social ...

• Chinese rival bolsters search engine against Baidu with Alibaba partnership

  IDG News Service - China's Baidu has long dominated the country's search market. But a local rival to the company is bolstering its own search services with the help of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. On Wednesday, Qihoo 360 appeared to debut ...

• Australias Warner Fined for Twitter Outburst

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• Giant solar plane flying into DFW Airport tonight

  The SolarImpulse aircraft will land at D/FW Airport at 1 a.m. Thursday morning and will be on display for the public from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. The SolarImpulse aircraft will make history Wednesday as it flies nonstop from Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg took off today at 4:45 a.m. from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and is expected ...

• Social Strategy for Regulated Industries

  convergence of paid, owned, and earned media , which explains a great deal about how brands can generate activity and earn credibility through social and other earned media to significantly boost SERP visibility. Even if marketers completely disregard the inherent benefits of effective social media programs in their own right, the growing ability of these efforts to generate credible social ...

• Dish warns of national security issues if SoftBank buys Sprint

  Dish Network has brought up national security as an issue should SoftBank acquire Sprint Nextel. Dish Network Corp.'s courting of Sprint Nextel Corp. took on a tone of international intrigue as the Colorado-based satellite entertainment company played up rival SoftBank's Corp.'s ties to China. The Kansas City Business Journal reported that an anti-SoftBank website funded by Dish ...

• Four takeaways from Apple CEO Tim Cooks tax strategy testimony

  Apple CEO Tim Cook defends his company's tax strategies at a U.S. Senate hearing. Apple CEO Tim Cook survived his first congressional hearing Tuesday with his company's reputation for innovation intact. Today, however, the focus wasn't on a new technological breakthrough by Apple, it was on the creative ways the multinational corporation reduces its U.S. tax liability. Here are four ...

• Chorus Call launches C-Meeting Concert-oh for enterprise

  Chorus Call, the makers of the web video conferencing platform Concert-oh, are now offering an enterprise version of the platform. After spending the last few years building out Concert-oh for consumers, the Monroeville-based company created C-Meeting, the next evolution of the tool with specific features, like higher security, aimed at corporate customers. C-Meeting is a convenient ...

• Leech Tishman adds California office

  Pittsburgh law firm Leech Tishman has opened an office in Pasadena, Calif., led by Alan Kindred and Ivan Posey, veteran intellectual property lawyers who previously operated a namesake practice. It is the firms fourth office. This transaction enabled Leech Tishman to create an intellectual property practice group to its list of services. Leech Tishman Managing Partner Pete Fuscaldo said in a ...

• Troy startup ThermoAura secures investment

  Rutvik Mehta created ThermoAura along with two Rensselaer professors. ThermoAura Inc., a startup in Troy, NY, has won more venture funding to commercialize something a mere one-thousandth of the width of a human hair. The company closed an agreement May 21 with Eastern New York Angels LLC. That Capital Region fund will invest $250,000 in ThermoAura over the course of this year. The money will ...

• Samsung spends $48M for 10 percent stake in Pantech

  Samsung has bought a 10 percent stake in Pantech. In a move that surprised some analysts, Samsung Electronics has bought a 10 percent stake in rival Korean handset maker Pantech Co. The Wall Street Journal said Samsung's stake cost $48 million and is a sign that Samsung intends to follow a new strategy of investing in rivals and making acquisitions with some of the massive amount of cash the ...

• Risky behaviour starts young on social media survey

  SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian children are accessing social media websites at an increasingly younger age, a new survey suggests, with one in five "tweens" admitting they have chatted to someone online they do not know.The report "Tweens, Teens and Technology" by online security company McAfee found that children in the tweens age category of eight to 12 were adopting technology ...

• Rob Ford Charbonneau and the dark side of social media

  Once upon a time - this was in another century, if not on another planet - serious news organizations did their best to prevent the spread of unsubstantiated rumours. This was also a time when judges and prosecutors strongly believed that the presumption of innocence should never be tampered with.Then social media arrived, with their good sides and their bad sides, and introduced a new culture, ...

• Hudson Valleys TEC-SMART early-college program grows 50 percent

  At TEC-SMART/ HVCC's summer camp 2012, students constructed temperature-ohm-light meters. Enrollment in the upcoming early-college nanotechnology and clean energy program at Hudson Valley Community Colleges TEC-SMART campus will increase more than 50 percent. Total enrollment for 2013-14 is 110, up from 72 this year. Fifty-eight of the students are juniors who will enter their first year of ...

• SAPS hack spells negligence

  The SAPS needs to beef up its IT security measures following a breach that has compromised thousands of whistle-blowers. The hacking of the SA Police Service's (SAPS's) Web site, that has put thousands of lives in jeopardy, spells gross negligence and raises questions around the police's IT systems and security. This is according to security experts, following an attack on the ...

• Disgraced ex-congressman Weiner announces candidacy for NYC mayor

  U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) pauses as he announces that he will resign from the United States House of Representatives during a news conference in Brooklyn, New York, June 16, ...

• Raytheon Lockheed Martin battling it out to build $3B space fence

  The U.S. Air Force is expected to pick a winner this summer to build an advanced radar system capable of tracking an estimated half a million pieces of manmade space junk, floating in orbit, before it can threaten satellites used for navigation, weather and communication, The Boston Globe reported. Raytheon Co. and Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. have competing proposals for the project. ...

• 2013 The year to switch to alternative telecoms

  Gone are the days when South African consumers and corporations only had one option for addressing their telecoms needs. These days, the industry is abuzz with new providers entering the market, rolling out their own infrastructure and offering its services at competitive prices. Yet many business owners and private consumers still seem reluctant to switch over to these alternatives and to ...

• Twitter hails dummy – but Noel Edmonds deserves fare dues | Media Monkey

  celebrity in her own right. The shop dummy has 18,000 Twitter followers and has received offers from fashion houses, record labels and retail outlets. Edmonds reckons there might also be potential for perfume ("eau de la dummy") and jewellery. Lets just hope it doesn't go the way of 1987 film Mannequin, which saw Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall playing a beautiful store dummy ...

• Shoppers using mobile devices to decide on in-store purchases says Google

  A recent study from Google has revealed a growing trend in the use of mobile devices as in-store shopping companions. In the report, 'Mobile In-Store Research: How in-store shoppers are using mobile devices', Google looks into the way consumers make use of their devices whilst browsing stores. According to the research, 84 per cent of shoppers with ...

• ANC mobilises via Mxit

  A depiction of what the ANC Western Cape Mxit application will look like. The ANC in the Western Cape has launched an app on social platform Mxit, in an effort to attract voters in the province. According to a statement released by the party yesterday, the MyANCWC application "heralds a new era in social media and technology" to educate voters and mobilise them to ...

• 12 Year-Old Girl Raped At Gunpoint By 3 Teen Boys Who Then Posted On Facebook

  12-year-girl at gunpoint. The rape was videotaped then posted on the Facebook pages of all three boys accused. While there is, of course, a gun issue here, I will focus on the rape of a child. 16-year-old Justin Applewhite, 16-year-old Scandale Fritz and 15-year-old Kenneth Brown have all been charged, as adults, with criminal sexual assault. The teenagers are being held in lieu of $900,000 ...

• David Warner could still captain Australia despite Twitter rant says Michael Clarke

  Australia Australia captain Michael Clarke has thrown his support behind embattled opener David Warner, saying he could still lead the team despite facing a disciplinary hearing over a Twitter rant.Warner is due to appear at Cricket Australia later today (Wednesday) over an alleged code of conduct breach after a heated social media tirade at two of the country's top cricket writers.He ...

• Woman brags about hit-and-run on Twitter cops tweet back

  An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled ...

• WA SMEs top social media poll

  Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in WA have topped the nation for their use of social media, according to a study.Telstra's 2013 Yellow Social Media Report found 34 per cent of SMEs in WA had a presence on social media compared with a national average of 30 per cent.The survey, based on a sample of 1809 businesses found social media usage among WA SME's had risen from 30 per ...

• Facebook teens FLASH THEIR PRIVATES more than ever before

  Teenaged kids are handing out more private information on social media than ever before, with little thought for the consequences, a not-so-surprising survey has found. Teens are carelessly giving away phone numbers, pictures and other sensitive data using their Facebook accounts, the report by the Pew Foundation pointed ...

• Study Teens taking to Twitter to avoid adults on Facebook

  WASHINGTON - Twitter is booming as a social-media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. The study indicated teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations.Teens told researchers there were too many adults on ...

• Teens jilt FB for Twitter

  WASHINGTON - Teens are sharing more about themselves on social media and moving increasingly to Twitter to avoid their parents and the "oversharing" they see on Facebook, a new poll finds.In the Pew Research Center poll, 94 percent of teen social-media users have a profile on Facebook - flat from the previous year. Twenty-six percent of that group were on Twitter, more than double the ...

• China charges six in sex video extortion case

  BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in the city of Chongqing has charged six people with working together to blackmail government officials by recording videos of them having sex, the official Xinhua news agency reported on ...

• UK driver Emma Way contacted by police after boasting about hitting cyclist on Twitter

  Accounts worker Emma Way, 21, hit Toby Hockley - then accused him of not paying road tax. She boasted on Twitter: "Knocked a cyclist off earlier. I have right of way. He doesn’t even pay road tax #bloodycyclists." Toby, 29, who suffered shin and elbow injuries, was alerted to the tweet after it was slammed by hundreds of cyclists. The chef, from Norwich, said: "Her ...

• Garden fertilised by Twitter output wins Gold at Chelsea

  A garden conceived by an alliance of trick-cyclists, architects and professors of "social computing" - and enabled by the wondrous power of Twitter - has won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show. This ...

• Intel reorganizes to get better grip on mobile chips

  Intel Corp. is reorganizing to find a way to get its chips in more mobile devices. Intel Corp. is reorganizing its corporate structure to tackle the one area it has failed to find success: mobile. The Phoenix Business Journal reported new CEO Brian Krzanich will put several chip architecture groups under his direct supervision as the chipmaker seeks to find better entries into the world of ...

• Apple tax case may spur work on loopholes

  Apple CEO Tim Cook testified before Congress earlier this week about the computer company's tax bills. Apple Inc.s foray before Congress this week to talk about its taxes may be the impetus to change U.S. tax code. The Seattle Post Intelligencer and the Associated Press said a report released Monday on how Apple avoided billions in taxes by using such things as Irish subsidiaries to avoid ...

• Cartoonist draws wrath of Thai prime minister

  Police want to question a political cartoonist in a defamation case brought by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra over comments he reportedly made about her on ...

• More teens turn to Twitter Facebook old poll

  Twitter is booming as a social media destination for US teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study about online behavior.It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. "The key is that there are fewer adults, fewer parents and just simply less ...

• Survey Says Teens Migrating to Twitter

  Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook and too much ...

• Inslee signs Facebook job password protection bill

  SEATTLE (AP) - Washington became the fifth state this year to sign into law protections of social media passwords at the workplace and job interviews. Gov. Jay Inslee signed the bill Tuesday, wrapping up a session of negotiations between privacy advocates and business lobbyists who were worried that the new law would hamper security for proprietary or confidential information. The measure, ...

• Confucius is the first person who used twitter

  According to the post, there are six evidences showing Confucius is the first to micoblog. First, every paragraph of The Analects has fewer than 140 characters, which is the earliest collection of Weibo; second, it always use simple words to give a profound message; third, most of the words are Confucius' own opinion and philosophical communication; fourth, Confucius has more than 3000 ...

• Xbox One Got Quite The Reaction On Twitter

  The Xbox One – Microsoft’s next generation games console – was finally revealed today. The machine looks capable enough, and will surely have some killer games. That doesn’t matter on Twitter, though, where gut reactions and cheap shots are all that matters. Microsoft encouraged fans to continue the discussion on Twitter ...

• IAB unveils guidelines for social media marketing

  The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has launched new Paid Social Advertising Best Practice Guidelines designed to help guide agencies and marketers using social as a marketing vehicle. The guidelines aim to provide information, structure and clarity on social media as a marketing tool and provide a framework to set clear campaign objectives and achieve measurable outcomes based around ...

• Teens Facebook is just like too much drama

  In a new Pew Report on teens and their social-networking habits, Twitter appears to be offering a resurgence, while Facebook may be losing impact. Because Facebook is just, well, too ...

• Biden says Jewish leaders in Hollywood social media drove changing attitudes on gay marriage

  WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriage and other issues. Biden says culture and arts change people's attitudes. He cites social media and the old NBC TV series "Will and Grace" as examples of what helped changed attitudes on gay marriage. Biden says, quote, "Think - behind of all that, I bet ...

• Photo of inspiring message in Oklahoma rubble making social media rounds

  a photo from the rubble has begun to circulate . The image shows tattered materials from a home, including a decorative plaque that reads, "The most important things in life aren't things." As the image continues to be shared socially, many have expressed their appreciation for the reminder, especially during times of distress. Maxine Beale commented, "Puts everything into ...

• Eminem’s Publisher Sues Facebook Over Song Usage

  CBS NEWS/AP ) – Eminem’s song publisher is suing Facebook and an ad agency, saying they copied music from one of the rapper’s ...

• Embattled Indians Perez deletes Twitter account

  Chris Perez has in the past been one of the most active players on the social media monster that is Twitter, but it's now a thing of the past.After a pair of bad outings that brought out a large amount of fan backlash -- essentially cussing Perez out -- over Twitter, he has deleted his account.Though Perez doesn't specifically blame the mean-spirited folk who cowardly went after him ...

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