Archive for July, 2010
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
CNN has fired an editor responsible for Middle Eastern coverage after she posted a note on Twitter expressing admiration for a late Lebanese cleric considered an inspiration for the Hezbollah militant movement.
Octavia Nasr later apologized for her tweet, but CNN's senior vice president for international newsgathering, Parisa Khosravi, said that ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
News Corp is in talks with Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc about advertising on MySpace, as an existing contract with Google ends, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Under a 2006 deal, Google had guaranteed $900 million to News Corp for the right to sell advertisements related to ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Facebook rejected as "frivolous" a lawsuit filed by a New York man who claims he owns an 84 per cent stake in the social network.
Facebook also said a temporary restraining order restricting the transfer of its assets issued by a Supreme Court judge in New York's Allegany County would have ...
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
A German data protection official said Wednesday he launched legal proceedings against Facebook, which he accused of illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don't use the social networking site.
Johannes Caspar, head of the Hamburg office for data protection, said it had initiated legal steps that could result ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Social networking should reduce friction between humans around the world by 2020 but our real life relationships could suffer and become more shallow, US experts say.
Still, the benefits of social media should "far outweigh" the negative impacts over the next 10 years, according to the Pew Research Centre study.
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Facebook's prude police are out in force yet again, this time threatening action against a Sydney jeweller for posting pictures of an exquisite nude porcelain doll posing with her works.
Victoria Buckley, who owns a high-end jewellery store in the Strand Arcade on George Street, has long used dolls as inspiration ...
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
The world's largest online social network announced the change in April. It's part of Facebook's cooperation with Canada' privacy commissioner, who has been among the sharpest critics of the company's privacy policies.
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that requires outside applications and websites to tell users exactly what parts ...
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has finally joined the social networking site Twitter and she's sent it into a Sunday afternoon frenzy.
Ms Gillard had been maintaining a dignified silence on Twitter, which other politicians appear addicted to. But commensurate with her new role running the country, Ms Gillard joined the internet ...
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Social media such as Facecbook and Twitter or blogging sites have become powerful tools that influence what people buy, online researcher Nielsen said Wednesday, urging business to embrace the trend.
Nearly three in four people worldwide who use the internet have visited a social networking site or blog, spending an average ...
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