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Wall Street Journal:
Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA   —  Effective spycraft has long called for cover—a job, family or routine that would keep a government agent from drawing undue attention.  Now, that calculation extends to spies' use of social media.  —  Only in the past few years …
May 17, 2013, 6:55 AMIn context
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
USA Network's Dividing Line With Twitter   —  Several television companies have announced deals with Twitter Inc. in recent weeks, looking to take advantage of the popularity of tweeting while watching shows.  But not all TV companies believe tying up with the social-media site is such a great idea.
May 16, 2013, 7:55 AMIn context
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
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.
May 14, 2013, 11:20 AMIn context
Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals:
Twitter favorites @Sunnyvale with new office lease   —  Sunnyvale, you have a new follower: Twitter.  —  Twitter Inc. has signed for an 8,000-square-foot space at 400 West California Ave., part of Sunnyvale Business Park and just a skip away from the Sunnyvale Caltrain Station.
May 8, 2013, 11:05 PMIn context
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
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.
May 1, 2013, 7:50 PMIn context
Dara Kerr / CNET:
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.
May 1, 2013, 2:05 PMIn context
Maureen Farrell / CNNMoney.com:
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 …
May 1, 2013, 12:50 PMIn context
New York Times:
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.
Apr 29, 2013, 8:50 AMIn context
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
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 …
Apr 29, 2013, 6:20 AMIn context
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
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.
Apr 26, 2013, 6:00 PMIn context

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Cloud Foundry:
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Rackspace Blog:
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.
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
Unison's blog:
“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).