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Retailers seek early birds through tweets
Palo Alto :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
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Retailers big and small have beefed up their presence on Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks well in advance of this week's traditional start to the annual holiday shopping season. Images More Business This is the first holiday season...
Tags: Palo Alto, Web 2.0, Technology Internet, Facebook, Blog hosting services, Social media, Online social networking, Business Finance, Staples Inc., Advertising, Black Friday, Marketing, Christmas and holiday season, Retailing
Teacher sentenced for sex with 15-year-old
Manchester :: WA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility A British religious education teacher has been sentenced to prison for having sex with a 15-year-old boy she had been mentoring, authorities said. Madeleine Martin, 39, pleaded guilty to charges of sexual conduct with a child under 16 and was sentenced...
Tags: Madeleine Martin, Manchester, Law Crime, Web 2.0, Social information processing, Facebook, Social media, Sociology, Crown Court, Blog software, Sexual abuse, Technology Internet, Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, Online social networking, Knutsford
Boise State needs another Oklahoma 'miracle'
Stillwater :: OK :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The undefeated Broncos could get shut out of BCS bowl game if the Sooners can't beat Oklahoma State. Football and fate become fickle and fantastic when you can suggest Boise State needs to offer Oklahoma trick plays this week to help the Sooners defeat...
Tags: Oklahoma State, Boise State, bowl championship, championship series, college football, Stillwater, Bowl Championship Series, allnews, Fiesta Bowl, BCS controversies, College football bowls, Boise State University, Bowl game, Ian Johnson, BCS National Championship Game, Sugar Bowl, Facebook, Western Athletic Conference, Boise State Broncos football, NCAA Division I FBS football season, Mythical national championship, Orange Bowl, BCS conference
Blood in the streets?
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility According to a recently released National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study hybrid-electric vehicles are up to twice as dangerous to pedestrians as traditional cars. The effect is at its worst in the city, when HEVs are almost silent. Near-silent...
Tags: Salt Lake City, Technology Internet, Environment, DJing, IPhone, Multi-touch, Hybrid electric vehicle, Electric vehicles, Portable media players, IPod Touch, ITunes, Facebook features, Car manufacturers, Road safety, Traffic collision, Beatmatching, Facebook, Alternative propulsion, App Store, Road transport, Picasa, Criticism of Facebook, Online social networking, Entertainment Culture, Toyota Prius, Social network service
U.S. online strategy holds clues for Tokyo
Hatoyama :: Japan | 5 days ago
Credibility I magine befriending Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Facebook. Or getting "tweets" from Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada on Twitter. It could happen if Tokyo follows Washington's lead. This summer, Japan, like the United States last year, opted for a...
Tags: Japan, Brookings Institution, U.S. State Department, Washington, Ginny Hunt of Google, Yukio Hatoyama, web sites, Tokyo, D.C. Darrell West, Facebook, Hatoyama, Web 2.0, Blog hosting services, Open government, E-Government, Social media, Politics, Government 2.0, Online social networking, Google
Toys R Us finds hordes of fans on Facebook
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Facebook announced today that Toys R Us has become the fastest growing brand on Facebook, growing between 40,000 to 95,000 fans per day over the past week...Instead, it appears to use a customized simple application to verify whether a user is a fan or...
Tags: using fan, Facebook, Toys R Us, San Francisco, Web 2.0, Toys "R" Us, Fan, Toy, Technology Internet, Online social networking, Facebook features, Human Interest
Emma Watson and Rafael Cebrian: Not necessarily a hook-up
London :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Turns out photos of "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson and "Spanish rocker Rafael Cebrian " on their maybe-date to watch the New York Rangers game over the weekend do exist. It's just that Watson is the only one who ranks high enough to be id-ed by the photo...
Tags: Emma Watson, Rafael Cebrian, rangers game, New York Rangers, London, Entertainment Culture, Stefano Pilati, Yves Saint Laurent, Barrymore, A, Emma, Harry Potter, Getty Images, English given names, Refrescante, Facebook, Human Interest, Watson, Stefano, Barrymore family
Are We Really Bidding for Beans Now?
Irvine :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The bidding war began three weeks ago, when Peet's announced that it will buy Diedrich for $26 a share . Diedrich's fortunes have turned around this year on the strength of its K-Cup portion packs for Green Mountain's Keurig coffee makers. This new relationship...
Tags: Diedrich Coffee Inc., Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Peet's Coffee & Tea, Green Mountain, coffee roasters, mountain coffee, Facebook, Irvine, Business Finance, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Diedrich Coffee, Peet's Coffee & Tea, Coffee houses, Coffee, Oracle Corporation, Coffea, Hospitality Recreation, Waterbury Vermont, Tesla Motors, Tesla Roadster, Sun Microsystems, K-Cup, Keurig, Google
Business Briefing
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Benmosche, former CEO of MetLife Inc., took the helm at AIG in August. He will receive an annual salary of $3 million in cash and $4 million in AIG common stock under the pay agreement. AIG is under government scrutiny after receiving a bailout package...
Tags: stock structuring, class stock, existing shareholders, Mark Zuckerberg, social networking, shareholders control, public offering, structuring designed, initial public, current shareholders, San Francisco, Business Finance, Technology Internet, Facebook, Corporate finance, Stock, Web 2.0, Stock market, Online social networking, Social information processing, Initial public offering, Equity securities, Blog software, Google, Criticism of Facebook, Social network service, Types of companies, Joost, Blog hosting services, The Wall Street Journal, Primary dealers
Why you should never post your vacation pics on Facebook
Zurich :: Switzerland | 5 days ago
Credibility Increasingly, that hard lesson is being taught to Canadians by insurers and employers. In the latest instance, a Quebec woman has lost her disability benefits after her insurer, Manulife, discovered photos on her Facebook profile of her vacationing. Nathalie...
Tags: Nathalie Blanchard, Mark Jan Vrem, Mirae Mayenburg, ICBC, Thomas Lavin, Joe Martins, social networking, Switzerland, Zurich, Insurance, Social network service, Manulife Financial, Blanchard, Online social networking, Facebook, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
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