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BlackBerry announces BBM ‘Channels’ social platform for brands and celebrities
— BlackBerry's BBM service was one of the earliest popular alternatives to text messaging, but it's become less vital amidst competition from Apple's iMessage and a variety of third-party apps.
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Facebook and banks ask U.S. judge to throw out IPO lawsuit
— (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, its Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and dozens of banks asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit accusing the social media company of misleading investors about its financial condition before its $16 billion initial public offering a year ago.
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LinkedIn turns online resumes into professional portfolios
— Now users can upload videos, images, and other rich media to showcase their work and skills on the professional social network. — LinkedIn is letting users take their online resumes to a whole new level.
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Peter Thiel: Twitter will outlast the New York Times
— Tech visionaries Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen disagree on the promise of Twitter, but both see a relatively long lifespan for the social media firm. At least in Internet years. — In a debate with Andreessen …
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Social Media's Effects On Markets Concern Regulators
— Could the global economy hinge on 140 characters? — That is the question the financial industry and government regulators are trying to answer after a Twitter hoax on Tuesday that claimed President Obama was injured in an explosion at the White House.
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Millions of users deserting Facebook
— Facebook's dominance in the social media world has come under threat from newer services such as Instagram and Path — Facebook has lost millions of users per month in its biggest markets, independent data suggests, as alternative social networks attract …
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White House launches official Tumblr page, promises ‘there will be GIFs’
— President Obama and his administration are no strangers to social media — there have been numerous presidential tweets, Google+ hangouts, and Reddit sessions in the past few years.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).