Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘Wall Street’
Reading newspapers has become less popular in the US and UK Online news has become more popular than reading newspapers in the US, according to a survey. It is the third most popular form of news, behind local and national TV stations, the Pew Research Center said.
March 1, 2010 | Posted in
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The Twittersphere was buzzing about the outage Network problems knocked more than 10 million WordPress blogs offline in a two hour outage on 18 February. WordPress.com said the problem was caused by a core router change at one of its data centre providers which “broke the site”.
February 20, 2010 | Posted in
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Google Buzz has generated a lot of controversy since its launch last week. Privacy concerns continue to dog the new social networking experiment, spammers are starting to move in on Buzz , and Google has rushed out several Buzz revisions in reaction to privacy concerns .
February 16, 2010 | Posted in
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The Wall Street Journal reports that more changes are planned for Buzz in response to user feedback, including the option to block conversations and other filtering features. Even as Buzz impressed some social media enthusiasts, it also angered some folks for various reasons — the most significant being that it’s a bit noisy and difficult to sort through, and that it isn’t quite as privacy-friendly as everyone would have preferred. The WSJ says Google assembled important company figures into a “war room” where they discussed ways to respond to user criticism
February 16, 2010 | Posted in
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Think you’re such a social media expert that you could tweet for a living? Well, President Obama is looking for an official social networks manager, and you might be just the tech whiz for the job. According to President Obama’s website, The Democratic National Committee and Organizing for America is in the market for a [...]
February 13, 2010 | Posted in
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We pretty much knew that Windows Mobile 7 is coming next week at MWC, but the Wall Street Journal has a piece up confirming the announcement, along with a few other interesting details. As we’d heard, the new UI is a riff on the Zune HD interface, and the OS “reflects a much tighter focus” [...]
February 12, 2010 | Posted in
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Yesterday, Iran permanently banned Gmail in an attempt to stifle today’s protests surrounding the anniversary of the Iranian revolution. Today, scores of videos depicting the melee have found their way onto YouTube, demonstrating the power that social media has to make voices heard against all odds. YouTube is reporting on its blog today that videos [...]
February 12, 2010 | Posted in
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This is the year that Twitter is slated to start monetizing in a big way. Along those lines, the company has just hired a Chief Financial Officer by way of Pixar Animation Studios. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ali Rowghani will join Twitter in March, after having worked in finance – most recently as [...]
February 11, 2010 | Posted in
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Gmail Banned By Iran; Is Twitter Next? The Iranian government has officially banned the use of Gmail in the country, reports The Wall Street Journal. In place of Google’s email platform, Iran will allow citizens to use a State-sponsored national email service. The ban coincides with the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Republic, which is [...]
February 11, 2010 | Posted in
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Today’s “people familiar with the discussions” prattle carried by both the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times has Apple reducing the price of some of its US television shows to 99 cents in time for the iPad launch. A quick search through the iTunes store makes it apparent that Apple has already been experimenting with [...]
February 11, 2010 | Posted in
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