Archive for July, 2012

Recession, Libor, Facebook punish Europe’s banks

ZURICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Leading European banks reported dismal profits on Tuesday, blaming everything from the continent’s debt crisis and Spain‘s property market crash to Facebook‘s disastrous stock market debut. Within a space of an hour UBS of Switzerland, Deutsche Bank , BBVA of Spain and Austria’s Erste Bank delivered the bad news on an industry […]

No regrets over "Twitter Games" for IOC

LONDON (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has no regrets about embracing social media for what some are calling the first “Twitter Games”, despite two athletes having been expelled for tweets and others being abused online. Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella was sent home from the Olympics on Monday for an offensive tweet aimed […]

UBS hit by Facebook IPO loss

GENEVA (AP) — Shares in UBS plunged after the Swiss banking giant posted a worse-than-expected 58 percent fall in second-quarter profits Tuesday due to losses from the Facebook stock listing and a downturn at its investment banking division. Switzerland’s largest bank said the drop in profits to 425 million francs ($434.16 million) from 1.02 billion […]

Def Con hackers go mainstream but still love to party

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – When Jeff Moss founded the Def Con hackers convention in 1993, he never imagined that two decades on, one of the key speakers at the annual Las Vegas event would be four-star General Keith Alexander, head of the U.S. National Security Agency. Once known as an excuse for computer geeks and […]

Facebook’s Save It Later Feature Isn’t an Instapaper Copycat (Yet)

Facebook has a new feature that sounds a lot like what Instapaper does, but so far, it isn’t nearly as useful. The new addition, which the social network calls “save it later” has the general theory of Instapaper behind it, but lacks many of the best parts of the service. Here’s how Facebook’s will work, according to The Verge’s Aaron […]

Microsoft relaunches Hotmail as social-friendly Outlook

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp unveiled a revamped, Facebook-friendly version of its free, online email service on Tuesday in an attempt to reverse market share losses to Google Inc’s fast-growing Gmail. The world’s largest software company is renaming its Hotmail service Outlook, giving it a sharp new look, social network links, and new features for […]

Olympic highlights on Twitter, July 31: Twitter reacts to Tom Daley abuse

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J.K. Rowling launches Harry Potter book club online

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Facebook stock slides to a record low, share-deluge looms

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s shares dived 6 percent to another record low on Tuesday, sliding for the third straight day since a lackluster quarterly report showed decelerating user growth. Investors have punished the stock of the No. 1 social network and other consumer-focused Internet companies such as Zynga Inc, questioning their ability to […]

Man assaults girlfriend after seeing Romney photo on her Facebook page

Lowell Turpin of Claxton, Tenn., suspected that his girlfriend was planning to cheat on him. His fears were confirmed — or so he thought — when he looked at her Facebook page and saw a photo of another man. He didn’t believe her even after she told him that the photo was not that of […]

Ugandans try to avoid touching amid ebola outbreak

Kampala residents have been urged to avoid contact after the deadly Ebola virus hit the city but security guard Joseph Karuba‘s job is to frisk people and he doesn’t have gloves. “The thing has come back — it came first time and we beat it, then it came again and we beat it and now […]

Look Who’s Tweeting: Guy Adams Back on Twitter After NBC Drops Complaint

Well, productivity, you had a good run. But unfortunately for everyone with actual stuff to do today, a fantastic time waster has appeared on the web, and it threatens to turn everyone into mindless page surfers for eternity. It’s called … Continue … Views: 0

Revealing the Psychology of Playing Card Magic

Think of a playing card. Got one in mind? Although it may have felt like a free choice, think again: Most people choose one of only four cards, out of a deck of 52. For now, remember your card — we’ll return to it later. For thousands of years, magicians have amazed audiences by developing […]

Olympics awash in Twitter, for better or worse

LONDON (AP) — 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 […]

Watch: Cancer Survivor Loses Hands, Feet to Bacterial Infection

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Twitter restores journalist account after outcry

Twitter on Tuesday restored the account of a British journalist whose suspension following his criticism of US broadcaster NBC‘s Olympics coverage had sparked an outcry. Amid a flurry of comments suggesting Twitter had put its commercial concerns over those of media integrity, the account of Guy Adams, Los Angeles correspondent for The Independent newspaper, was […]

Watch: Eye Twitch Pesters Pediatrician for 10 Years

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Conergy Selected to Install 3.4 Megawatts of Solar Energy for Grimmway Enterprises

World’s number one grower of carrots installing additional 3.4 megawatts of clean solar energy Bakersfield, CA (PRWEB) July 31, 2012 Grimmway Enterprises Inc., the largest carrot grower in the world, is making its carrots green once again with the Conergy Projects Group. The solar experts at Conergy will install approximately 3.4 megawatts of solar energy […]

Power provider loses appeal of EPA oversight

DALLAS (AP) — The largest power generator in Texas lost an appellate court challenge Monday over federal supervision of state clean-air regulations. Dallas-based Luminant Generation Co. filed a lawsuit challenging how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency responded to state plans for implementing new clean-air standards. But in a 29-page ruling, a three-judge panel of the […]

Watch: Mayor Mike Bloomberg Promotes Breastfeeding

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