Archive for May, 2011

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Heavyweights Due At ‘All Things Digital’

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates have done it.

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LinkedIn opens Asia headquarters in Singapore

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Career networking website LinkedIn opened its Asian headquarters in Singapore on Tuesday, part of a plan to tap the region’s large pool of professionals.

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Hundreds cheer on cheese rollers

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Rebel cheese rollers have defied the weather to take part in a bizarre competition of chasing an 8lb piece of the dairy product down a steep hill.

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China’s LinkedIn, Ushi, eyes big growth over next two

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Ushi, China’s answer to LinkedIn, hopes to have 10 million users in two years and to raise $5 million in its next round of fundraising, its chief executive said on Monday.

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Organize your social networks

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

The key to using social media is first understanding what you want from it and then learning how it works so you can get what you want.

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Leesville man faces multiple charges

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

A Leesville man is facing rape and other charges in connection with a missing Alexandria-area teen who had been in contact with him via social networking sites and a cellphone, according to a release from Vernon Parish Sheriff Sam Craft.

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Heavy storms rake Vermont

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Reader Shannon Forsyth submitted this photo of golf ball-sized hail from Mallett’s Bay during Thursday night storms.

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Face time for Giffords, space hubby

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

The shuttle Endeavour’s commander, Mark Kelly, looks out from a video monitor in Houston during a space-to-ground teleconference with his wife, wounded Rep.

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Facebook Blasts Ceglia Lawsuit As ‘Outrageous Fraud’

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Paul Ceglia’s claim that an eight-year-old contract signed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg entitles him to 50 percent ownership of the company “is a brazen and outrageous fraud,” Facebook said Thursday in a court filing responding to Ceglia’s lawsuit.

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Black MSM focus of new HIV campaign

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Billboards for the “Know Where You Stand” ad campaign are up in Oakland and San Francisco; the campaign is aimed at black men who have sex with men.

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Jeff Reeves: 5 ways you can buy the next hot (Facebook) IPO

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

When LinkedIn hit the market last week, it delivered a quick doubler to the lucky stiffs who were part of the initial public offering.

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Mel B falls for Spice reunion hoax

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Wednesday 25th May 2011, 4:10PM BST. Mel B joked that she almost got her leopard print catsuit on again Mel B was left a little red-faced after a hoaxer posed on Twitter as Geri Halliwell and suggested a Spice Girls reunion tour.

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London-Based TweetDeck ‘Bought By Twitter’

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

London-based application company TweetDeck has reportedly been sold to micro-blogging site Twitter in a A 25m deal.

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UK to bring manslaughter charge in protest death

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

A British prosecutor says he will bring a manslaughter charge against a police officer following the death of a newspaper vendor during the G-20 demonstrations in London in 2009.

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Cisco accused of helping China track dissents

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Cisco Systems Inc. became the subject of a lawsuit which accuses the tech firm of providing the Chinese government with the means of spying on dissents and aiding human rights violations against its citizens.