Internet
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Chinese turn to microblogs for donationsAug 25, 2012 8:17 am - BEIJING — Nine months after Ma Chunhua’s baby was born, bruises began appearing all over the daughter’s tiny frame. When doctors this spring diagnosed it as leukemia, Ma...
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Twitter stomping on potential competitorsAug 25, 2012 7:54 am - Nothing says “We’re ready to compete with Mark Zuckerberg” like smushing legions of seemingly friendly collaborators beneath your feet to prevent them from becoming comp...
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OnLive game streaming company says it will live onAug 25, 2012 7:00 am - NEW YORK — OnLive, the video game streaming startup that was full of promise when it was unveiled three years ago, has reorganized its business and cut roughly half of i...
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Chinese company keeps Syria connected to InternetAug 22, 2012 6:20 pm - NEW YORK — A firm that tracks the pathways of the Internet says a Chinese company is keeping war-torn Syria connected to the Internet as other telecommunications compani...
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Why it’s critical to back up gmail, FB and twitterAug 22, 2012 4:46 pm - PALO ALTO, Calif. — When I first heard of Backupify a few years ago, I thought the service sounded unnecessary at best. The company promises to back up the data you’ve s...
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The thrilling (and welcome?) demise of GrouponAug 19, 2012 7:00 am - A year ago, Rakesh Agrawal, an analyst and journalist who spent many years working in the local advertising business, wrote a series of devastating articles about Groupo...
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United Airlines “loses” 10-year-old girl, enters social media hellAug 18, 2012 7:07 am - As the Olympics wrapped up Sunday, United Airlines’ public relations team stood ready to capitalize on the good feelings with some nifty promotions on Facebook and Twitt...
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YouTube’s ‘Lauren’ series focuses on military sexual assaultAug 13, 2012 7:48 am - SAN DIEGO — The enormous obstacles and emotional torment that a female soldier confronts in reporting a sexual assault in the military are the focus of the three-part We...
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Free Wi-Fi catches on with NYC’s subway ridersAug 11, 2012 7:47 am - NEW YORK — Emily Langmead was hesitant when she first heard of free Wi-Fi in the subway. Like many New Yorkers, she wondered what the catch was. But now, she says, she u...
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Court mulls free speech implications of clicking ‘Like’Aug 11, 2012 7:41 am - Daniel Ray Carter Jr. logged on to Facebook and did what millions do each day: He “liked” a page by clicking the site’s thumbs up icon. The problem was that the page was...