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Twitter’s data sale highlights ‘game-changing’ privacy shift in social media
By Mitch Lipka Twitter users are about to become major marketing fodder, as two research companies get set to release information to clients who will pay for the privilege of mining the data. Boulder,...
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You’ve managed to attract top talent, but can you close the deal?
In my last column I wrote about the importance of not only building and maintaining a strong employer brand — loosely defined as the way your company is perceived by current and prospective employees —...
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MyVoice making some noise in social media marketing
If you are looking for sales staff in the MyVoice Inc. directory, you won’t find any. Instead, the developer of communication aids for helping people with speech and language disabilities has been...
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Canada’s lawful access bill panned on Twitter, study says
If Twitter were the voting means by which Canadian bills became law, then Bill C-30 — known as the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act (or the Online Spying Act depending on who you ask) —...
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Uniiverse connects Internet users to buy, share and sell in person
The hyper-connected world the Internet fosters can actually be profoundly isolating, as 140-character messages supplant getting acquainted IRL, or in real life. Craig Follett aims to change that with...
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Twitter buys blogging platform Posterous
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc said Monday that it has acquired Posterous, a blogging platform known for its slick digital media-sharing interface. The microblogging service said in a blog post that the...
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Hit that follow button — the Fed is on Twitter!
Follow buttons around the world are clicking today because the most closely watched central bankers in the world just joined the Twitterverse. The Federal Reserve Board launched the channel...
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New iPad launched 1.6 million tweets
It is the tablet that launched a million tweets. Or rather about 1.6 million to be more accurate. That’s how many social media mentions Apple Inc.’s iPad garnered in the two-week period from March 6,...
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How Twitter may help predict stock prices
By Jeff Bercovici Celebrating its sixth birthday yesterday, Twitter revealed that it now has 140 million users generating a collective 340 million posts a day. That’s a lot of data with a lot of...
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Twitter opens Detroit office to woo car companies
DETROIT – Twitter, looking for better proximity to car companies with hefty ad budgets, said Wednesday it will open an office in Detroit just as the city’s elected leaders scramble to avoid bankruptcy...
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Facebook time to grow, survey says
More than half of advertising and marketing executives (53%) predict a greater marketing investment in Facebook this year, says a survey by the Creative Group. “Organizations of all sizes and...
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Google confirms Gmail glitch, says ‘should be resolved’ now
Update: Two hours after Google said the Gmail service interruptions were resolved, it published a further update saying it determined the number of users affected was “less than 10%,” up from a...
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Tweak your portfolio with tweets
The growth of social media is rather astounding, but many still underestimate the profound influence they are having on society and the way it communicates. To add some context: Facebook has grown to...
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Need a social media break? There’s an app for that
SINGAPORE — Nestle, purveyor of the decades-old KitKat snack, has launched an app it says addresses a growing problem among young social media users — giving them a break from the stress of posting...
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Employers atwitter about social media
Recent U.S. headlines about employers asking job candidates for Facebook login passwords have sparked debate about social media ethics and the role of social networks in the recruitment process. Some...
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Twitter’s move to ‘gritty neighbourhood’ sets rents soaring
Frank Fudem, a San Francisco broker for office tenants, realized that rents in the city were about to spike as Twitter Inc. agreed to move to a gritty neighbourhood and leasing by technology companies...
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Twitter outage has fans in dither
SAN FRANCISCO — Microblogging platform Twitter suffered a setback Thursday as its service went dark for about an hour. “Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently...
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Twitter founders unveil new ways to spend time online with launch of two sites
Could it spell the end of tweets marked one of two? Is it finally a way to steer clear of Twitter jerks? The founders of Twitter are behind two new websites that were revealed this week, one of which,...
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Jack Dorsey Q&A: Square co-founder discusses Canadian launch
On Wednesday, Twitter creator and co-founder Jack Dorsey will launch his newest business venture, Square Inc., in Canada, the first international market for the three-year-old San Francisco-based...
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Are ‘friendships’ the next business strategy?
If you have 347 followers on Twitter, what are the chances that they’ll click on the same online ad you clicked on last night? Are firms trying to capitalize on the social media explosion to market...
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