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New York | Today Buzztala released the latest version of its Social Content Marketing Platform with a new  self-serve portal  for any business with a website. And for a limited time B...

"We have the chance to show that America values the dignity of the street vendor in Tunisia more than the raw power of the dictator ... America must use all our influence to encourage reform in the region ... we need to speak honestly about the principles that we believe in, with friend and foe alike." Which prominent American spoke these words? It was neither Senator...

A terrifying twister tore through Oklahoma City leaving a path of destruction. We take a look at footage shared by eyewitnesses on social networks.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reaped a gain of nearly $2.3 billion last year when he exercised 60 million stock options just before the online social networking leader's initial public offering.

The Times Editorial: Sports and social clubs operating on public land offer places where citizens gather to participate in recreational exercise. Because of a radical proposal by the City of Johannesburg to reclassify these sites as business and commercial properties, many will have to close their doors, because they will simply not be able to afford the far higher rates....

One thing we as South Africans should be able to agree on, whatever our political party, our race, our religious or non religious beliefs, no matter our economic interest or social standing, is that we males in South Africa do not get to proclaim ourselves men.

A hospital ward holding the most dangerous killers and rapists in Britain was run like a "social club", with men giving one another back waxes on a pool table, an employment tribunal heard.    

Resolute Forest Products says discussion broke down when it became apparent key economic, social, and environmental concerns were not being considered

Stars flocked to social media to offer their condolences to those affected by the tragedy in Moore

The privacy management of 16 popular social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, is "seriously deficient," according to a study being published in the June issue of Computer magazine.

LurnQ, a social online learning and teaching platform, announced its partnership with Plancess,

About.me, the online identity platform that spun out from Aol* at the beginning of the year before acquiring the one-time Digg spinout Wefollow, is now lifting the curtains on its plans to generate revenue, with today’s debut of About.me Premium. Via this new, paid tier to the service, the company is adding some of the more advanced features users have requested, including...

Brow.si, a new product from MySiteApp, is launching in open beta today as an add-on for mobile websites that promises to bring a number of features to rival the engagement of native apps. These include social sharing, a read it later button, subscriptions, and push notifications (sort of). Developers can also create additional extensions for the Brow.si platform to add...

TeamSnap, a company that provides tools for managing sports teams, has today announced that it is acquiring Weplay, a social networking site for athletes, parents and coaches to help facilitate coordination for events, games, practices, etc. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Change.org got its start in 2007 as a social network for non-profits. For years, growth was slow for the fledgling social action platform, but, over the last year, that changed dramatically. Change.org has grown from six million users in early 2012 to more than 35 million users today, and, as a result, has become one of the largest and fastest growing of its kind.

Sam Kassé defends the selfie, blight of social networks: "I know most people hate selfies. They groan and complain about them, from the duck lips to the filters. Why, just the word “selfie” can induce legendary amounts of eyerolling. What people seem to miss, is that selfies are actually great. No, scratch that, selfies are [...]    

One way to spend your millions: Build a private clubhouse, with no oversharers welcome.

Yahoo says it acquired 300 million new users yesterday. But, for now, the number advertisers care about will be much smaller.

You've had some fun with Vine, but now you want to get serious. Here are 12 tips to turn you into a Vine pro. With Vine, you have six seconds to really impress a viewer. Thankfully, six seconds is more than enough time to dazzle someone, tell a story or share a laugh. These tips range from technical best practices to creative guidelines 1. Visualize the Final Product Before...

Nearly one million people are affected by natural disasters each year. In the U.S. alone, some 400 people die from disasters that cost the economy $17.6 billion. Helping respond to these cataclysmic events, social media is now a go-to tool for those effected by disasters One in five Americans has used an emergency app. Of those Americans effected by natural disasters,...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who announced on Monday that the company acquired popular social blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion, said she will use the site often to share her experiences and interests with the community, from Yahoo news to pictures of macaroon art. Mayer will blog with the user name MarissaMayr — note the dropped "e," in line with Tumblr and Yahoo's...

One of the most devastating tornados in U.S. history tore through Oklahoma City Monday, wreaking considerable damage to the suburb of Moore. The Oklahoma City medical examiner's spokesperson originally reported at least 51 deaths, including 20 children, though those counts are no longer thought accurate. The storm reduced homes to piles of rubble and destroyed entire neighborhoods....

Jean-Pierre Kucheida écope de 30.000 euros d'amende pour abus de bien social. pour avoir utilisé à des fins personnelles de la carte bleue d'un bailleur social qu'il présidait.Articles en rapportMétéo : «Pas de prévisions optimistes avant le mois de juin»Jacques Servier quitte le procès du MediatorMariage gay : la manif du 26 mai mobilisée mais diviséeUn homme...

REVUE DE TWEETS - Ce vrai-faux biopic du pianiste de music-hall Liberace, présenté ce mardi, est porté par la partition extraordinaire de Michael Douglas. Les avis publiés sur le réseau social sont, c'est assez rare depuis le début de la compétition, dithyrambiques. » Michael Douglas : «On a tout fait pour éviter la caricature»  Articles en rapportGuillaume...

Un proyecto cultural recoge la memoria musical de un barrio coruñés, por XOSÉ MANUEL PEREIRO

El portavoz del PP en el Congreso, Alfonso Alonso, junto a una delegación del Grupo Popular, se reunirá el miércoles 29 en la Cámara baja con los líderes sindicales Cándido Méndez e Ignacio Fernández Toxo. Así lo han informado a Efe fuentes 'populares', que han enmarcado este encuentro, previsto para las 17.00 horas, en los contactos para la reapertura del diálogo...

La cuarta edición del Festival Rompeolas aúna diversas actividades de denuncia contra la crisis y la especulación

Yahoo Inc said it is buying blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the struggling Internet pioneer a much-needed platform in social media to reach a younger generation of users.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reaped a gain of nearly $2.3 billion last year when he exercised 60 million stock options just before the online social networking leader's initial public offering.

The Times Editorial: Sports and social clubs operating on public land offer places where citizens gather to participate in recreational exercise. Because of a radical proposal by the City of Johannesburg to reclassify these sites as business and commercial properties, many will have to close their doors, because they will simply not be able to afford the far higher rates....

I have nothing against the folks who created Tumblr and managed to get Yahoo to bid a whopping $1.1 billion this week to buy the...

(Phys.org) —The corporate social responsibility programs of big mining companies in remote towns are often disconnected from community needs, reactive and ad hoc.

Wanderful Media has raised another $9 million from the long list of media companies that were already backing the startup and its local deal service Find&Save. The announcement comes after the relaunch of Find&Save last month. The service allows readers to browse deals aggregated from newspaper circulars, retailers, and other data sources. That was the first big...

Game developer Rocket Jump had already proved its mettle with the hit Major Mayhem. But the company's location in Wellington, New Zealand meant its team often felt isolated from the resources they needed to build an even bigger hit. Enter Scopely, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming platform founded by social gaming entrepreneur Walter Driver and AdSense co-creator Eytan...

MavenSay, a social recommendation app, just got a surge of unplanned downloads coming from Indonesia, and its founders are moving quickly to include Southeast Asia in its expansion plans, as a result. The company’s Toronto-based co-founder, Jesse Dallal, said the two-month old app got 100,000 downloads over the past fortnight. It has a total of 130,000 downloads so far,...

Change.org CEO Ben Rattray finds investors who will agree to let him do his thing.

A Facebook group is helping the victims of the massive Oklahoma tornado, which killed 51 people and left many homeless, get their belongings back On its trail of destruction, the tornado has blown debris from houses — including people's personal belongings and important documents — many miles away. The Facebook group asks members to post photos of any items or documents...

Annual profits rise to £324m as the government prepares to sell the 497-year-old postal serviceRoyal Mail has reported a 60% increase in pre-tax annual profits to £324m, as the government prepares to sell off the 497-year-old postal service in the most ambitious privatisation since British Gas in 1986.The company, which ministers hope to float on the London stock exchange...

El presidente del Consejo Europeo, Herman Van Rompuy, pidió hoy a los Veintisiete que hagan un esfuerzo en la cumbre que celebran mañana sus jefes de Estado y de Gobierno para impulsar la lucha contra la evasión fiscal. "En tiempos de restricciones presupuestarias y recortes del gasto, la lucha contra el fraude fiscal y la evasión de impuestos es más que una cuestión...

Young people with money. Those four words help explain why Yahoo just handed over more than $1 billion for a social network that has yet to turn a profit.A third of Tumblr's active users come from households with incomes above $100,000 per year, giving it higher income skew than Facebook or Twitter, according to Comscore, the Web analytics firm.Read More...More on Yahoo! ...

Deadly tornado in Oklahoma; Hezbollah in Lebanon; politics in Germany and Italy; garden gnomes in Chelsea; Yahoo’s rush into social media; a Franco-American movie in Cannes.    

Arlington, VA – – Today the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® announced that it has selected Engadget, the tech news outlet with obsessive coverage of cutting-edge gadgets and consumer electroni...

Yahoo Inc said it is buying blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the struggling Internet pioneer a much-needed platform in social media to reach a younger generation of users.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reaped a gain of nearly $2.3 billion last year when he exercised 60 million stock options just before the online social networking leader's initial public offering.

The Times Editorial: Sports and social clubs operating on public land offer places where citizens gather to participate in recreational exercise. Because of a radical proposal by the City of Johannesburg to reclassify these sites as business and commercial properties, many will have to close their doors, because they will simply not be able to afford the far higher rates....

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has argued that putting lone parents directly on jobseekers’ allowance would be too onerous

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has argued that putting lone parents directly on jobseekers’ allowance would be too onerous    

"Buckets" enters the social-media game.

HasOffers, a startup that helps mobile app developers see which ad efforts are actually paying off, is announcing that it has raised a $9.4 million round of funding led by Accel Partners. The company was founded in 2009 — the product that it initially built, and the one that's still highlighted on the HasOffers website, is a system that helps ad networks and agencies...

Does my music do better on Facebook or Twitter? Where should my next tour be? Is my new song too repetitive? Musicians can get free answers to these questions and more from BeatDeck, a Y Combinator analytics company launching today. BeatDeck plans to license this data to labels and music stores to help them sign and recommend tomorrow's superstars. Yep, BeatDeck is an...

In theory, social networks are supposed to make you feel closer to everybody. Oh, look! Jim is driving a tractor on Instagram. Wow, Sarah just invited me to her baby shower on Facebook. But the truth is, social networks do a really good job at making you feel left out too. Wait... why did my friends all check-in at the same spot on Foursquare? How come these drunken Instagram...

In the social-media age, even the most innocent misstep can have unintended consequences, as one NFL rookie recently found out the hard way Keenan Allen is a talented wide receiver from Cal who was selected in the third round of last month's NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. The Chargers and Oakland Raiders share one of the NFL's fiercest rivalries, which is why a random...

Loyal Tumblr users shouldn't worry about changes that could come to the site, CEO David Karp said Monday night at an event hosted by Yahoo, which acquired his social-blogging platform earlier in the day Yahoo announced it had acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion. The move is said to be a part of an effort to attract more users in the 18-to-24 year old demographic and grow...

Rebel Tories are defeated in Commons after PM's last minute plea to Ed MilibandThe government's gay marriage bill was saved after David Cameron was forced to rely on Ed Miliband to defeat an attempt by his own MPs to derail the measure by trying to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.An 11th-hour plea to the Labour leadership by the Tory chief whip Sir George...

Labour leader votes against amendment extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples after appeal by Tory whipsThe gay marriage bill has been saved after Ed Miliband agreed at the last minute to vote against an amendment to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples that had prompted government warnings that it would derail the entire measure.The Labour leader,...

Licenciados de EE UU denuncian a sus campus porque sus promesas laborales no se cumplieron. Algunos expertos han hablado de una burbuja universitaria. ¿Podría ocurrir en Europa?

Fleur Pellerin se consolida como un pilar del Gobierno francés. Es responsable de la Economía Digital y las Pymes. Abandonada en la calle, recién nacida, en las calles de Seúl fue adoptada seis meses después por una pareja francesa en un orfanato

Classic look inspired by England's first kit to celebrate the Football Association's 150th anniversary. - - The new England kit was unveiled today, with the first official sighting via a picture posted...

Yahoo Inc said it is buying blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the struggling Internet pioneer a much-needed platform in social media to reach a younger generation of users.

After much hype and social media-fuelled expectation, the king of campy spectacle Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's almost perfect jewel in the US literary canon is here.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reaped a gain of nearly $2.3 billion last year when he exercised 60 million stock options just before the online social networking leader's initial public offering.

The Times Editorial: Sports and social clubs operating on public land offer places where citizens gather to participate in recreational exercise. Because of a radical proposal by the City of Johannesburg to reclassify these sites as business and commercial properties, many will have to close their doors, because they will simply not be able to afford the far higher rates....

One thing we as South Africans should be able to agree on, whatever our political party, our race, our religious or non religious beliefs, no matter our economic interest or social standing, is that we males in South Africa do not get to proclaim ourselves men.

Director Bryan Singer uses social media to show a new picture of his Oscar-winning star.

La verdad, la justicia y la reparación son esenciales en la construcción de un tejido social sano

Japanese social game giant Gree announced the future strategy for its overseas offices, and the company said it will close the office in China. Gree's offices in the United States and South Korea are having fast growth; however, all these overseas offices still made losses. Gree's Chinese office has now been shut, but the employees [...]

Today has been quite a roller coaster ride for Yahoo -- the company put days of reports and rumors to rest this morning when it confirmed that it would acquire the social blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, and now CEO Marissa Mayer has confirmed that Yahoo's New York employees will now be moving. They'll all soon be working right around the corner from Times...

Square's not just for businesses apparently, as an invite-only page for a product called "Square Cash" has popped up. Not many details are known about it, but we've reached out to the company for comment.

Dude, you got a Linux-powered Dell! In all the years I've reviewed laptops I've never been as pleasantly surprised by an Ultrabook as I was with the Dell XPS 13 Developers Edition. This ultrathin, ultralight SSD laptop originally came in Windows flavor but, much to my surprise, I far prefer the Ubuntu edition of this device. It is solidly built, acceptably priced given...

According to a new study, we really don't have to worry too much about the nearly 1 in 4 children without access to FarmVille at home. "Our results indicate that computer ownership alone is unlikely to have much of an impact on short-term schooling outcomes for low-income children," report Robert W. Fairlie and Jonathan Robinson in a new study of a large-scale randomized...

"I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts," says D'Angelo.

Pinterest has become that rarest of specimens, at least in the consumer/social world: an independent, massively scaling service that not only bestows the ?cool? factor that every large company seems to crave but, in Pinterest?s case, offers a huge opportunity to turn its "things I want to buy" essence into an e-commerce cash machine. It is the last of its kind.

Remember GeoCities? The quirky, city-themed web hosting service and early social network that, by 1999, was the third-most-visited site on the World Wide Web? Fourteen years ago, Yahoo acquired it — and with much the same fanfare as the Internet behemoth has done, today, with Tumblr. There is reason to be optimistic about Yahoo's latest acquisition: ads, audience, coolness,...

Nicole Muxo is a senior at Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High in Miami. She's also a huge fan of Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade. So last month, she made a minute-and-a-half YouTube video asking Wade to be her prom date. Fat chance, right? Social media prom invites from fans have become a fairly standard trapping of modern celebrity, but — understandably — they rarely...

Baby scores goal! Crowd goes wild! This may just be the most adorable play in the history of soccer The aww-inducing moment comes from Chelsea player Paulo Ferreira’s retirement ceremony at the club's Stamford Bridge stadium this weekend. As Ferreira thanked his teammates on the public address system, it was the toddler son of backup goalkeeper Ross Turnbull...