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Archive for July, 2012
Online poker companies settle with U.S.; two to combine
NEW YORK (Reuters) – It took Jason Legate, a Walnut Creek, California-resident, all of 10 minutes to connect his computer to a London-based server and access BBC’s coverage of the Olympics Saturday, thereby circumventing NBC’s lock on coverage in the United States. The 31-year-old system administrator said he has watched … Views: 0
Olympics: Swiss soccer player sent home for racist tweet
Is it possible that no one told Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella that people he doesn’t know can read Twitter? That, in fact, everyone can read Twitter? When his frustration at losing to South Korea Sunday bubbled over into a crude tweet about how people from that country “can go burn” and are “a bunch […]
TWITTER INSULT INVESTIGATED
The Twitter insult against British diver Tom Daley has attracted the attention of police. Daley’s father died of brain cancer a year ago and the 18-year-old Olympian had hoped win a medal “for myself and my dad.” But he finished finishing fourth, out of medal contention, in the 10-meter synchronized platform with teammate Pete Waterfield. […]
EYES ON LONDON: Guilt, fencing drama, tweet insult
LONDON (AP) — Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you: ___ SHOULDERING THE BLAME The U.S. men’s gymnastics team faltered as a team in Monday’s finals. But John Orozco thinks he’s to blame. “I feel personally responsible. I […]
StockTwits CEO ‘Disappointed’ With Twitter’s Cashtags
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EYES ON LONDON: Twitter uproar, Bieber and judo
LONDON (AP) — Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you: ___ HER MAJESTY: HIP HOP FAN? Who knew Queen Elizabeth II was a hip hop fan? Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed that during a performance by one […]
Apple Can Buy Twitter, RIM, and Sprint and Still Have Billions
Fantasizing about how Apple could spend its $117 billion cash mound leads to one astounding conclusion: The company has more money than it could ever spend—even if it went on an extravagant tech company shopping spree. Following Apple’s acquisition of AuthenTec for what DealBook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin calls “a price equal to pocket lint,” Sorkin made a […]
NBC Says Twitter Instigated Journalist’s Suspension
The saga of Guy Adams, the Independent journalist suspended from Twitter after a series of tweets critical of NBC, took an insidious turn on Tuesday as NBC claimed it filed its complaint about Adams at Twitter’s behest. As you’ll remember, the question at hand on Monday was whether Adams violated Twitter’s policy when he posted the email address of NBC […]
Twitter suspends reporter’s account
LONDON (AP) — Twitter has suspended the account of a Los Angeles-based reporter for a British newspaper who included the email address of the NBC Olympics president and asked his followers to write him to complain about the network’s coverage. Guy Adams, a correspondent for The Independent, was upset with the network’s decision to broadcast […]
British diving starlet abused on Twitter
British teenage diver Tom Daley has been targeted by abusive Twitter messages after one of the Olympic hosts’ poster boys missed out on a medal in his opening event at the London Games. The Twitter ‘troll’ accused the 18-year-old of letting down his late father after he and partner Pete Waterfield finished fourth in the […]
Switching Facebook From a Time Crusher to a Career Booster
For most, Facebook can be a real time waster–one minute you’re browsing your friend’s photos from Costa Rica, the next thing you know an hour and a half has gone by and you’ve wound up watching the latest viral “Call Me Maybe” parody someone posted from YouTube. Oh, and apparently 88 percent of Facebook users […]
Twitter Reinstates NBC-bashing Journalist Guy Adams
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Tom Daley abused on Twitter
British teenage diver Tom Daley has been targeted by abusive Twitter messages after one of the Olympic hosts’ poster boys missed out on a medal in his opening event at the London Games. The Twitter ‘troll’ accused the 18-year-old of letting down his late father after he and partner Pete Waterfield finished fourth in the […]
Facebook Testing ‘Save for Later’ Feature
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Chaos comes in small packets as Twitter, an unpredictable force, asserts itself at Olympics
LONDON – It’s amazing how much trouble can be stirred up in 140 characters or less. But also how much intimacy, excitement, global scope and, yes, general zaniness. For better and for worse, the 2012 Olympics are being shaped, shaken and indisputably changed by a social media revolution that four years ago in Beijing was […]
Google Acquires Social Media Management Platform Wildfire
Google has acquired social media management platform Wildfire Interactive for an undisclosed amount, the tech giant announced Tuesday. Wildfire, which launched four years ago by Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard (pictured) was funded in part by Facebook, counts Amazon, Verizon Wireless, Virgin, Gilt Groupe and Spotify among its clients. It helps them manage their content, […]
Entrepreneur Claims He Made $8,000 in One Day Via Facebook Ads
In a nice counter argument to startup Limited Run’s claim that 80% of the clicks on its ads were bots, an entrepreneur has stepped up to provide a real-life example in which he made $8,000 in one day via Facebook ads. The entrepreneur, Brendan Irvine-Broque, is the director of growth for PageLever. In a post […]
Stacking Up Twitter’s New Cashtags vs. StockTwits
Following Twitter’s announcement of a new feature called Cashtags, which allow users to follow stocks, Howard Lindzon, CEO of StockTwits called the move a “hijacking” of his similar service on the company blog. “I am disappointed of course that Twitter is hijacking our idea and time (will only confuse the masses),” he writes, noting that […]
Can Romney’s VP Announcement App Really Beat Twitter?
The Romney campaign doesn’t have the most stellar track record with smart phone apps (remember Amercia?), but it nonetheless plans to announce his vice-presidential pick via app, even though you can rest assured it will leak out on Twitter first. The campaign introduced an app on Tuesday specifically for Romney’s vice president announcement, which is expected sometime after the […]