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2 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Facebook supports college knowledge

Independent educational consultants are all over social media. They have informative websites and Facebook pages .

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software, Marketing, Education Etc.

7 hrs ago | KPLC-TV Lake Charles

'Tweet' is now officially a word in the Oxford English Dictionary

Anybody connected to the Web already knows that a tweet is more than a sound a bird makes.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Social Software, Blog News, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Startups

11 hrs ago | KFVS12

Cat runs for mayor in Mexico

Residents who want to get rid of the so-called political "rats" have chosen a cat to run for mayor.

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Related Topix: Mexico, North America, World News, Startups

13 hrs ago | Tri-cityherald.com

Nearly two-thirds of American parents monitor kids on Facebook

That's according to a survey from the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Startups, University of Southern California

17 hrs ago | Bloomberg

Apple Joins Facebook, Microsoft in Outlining Data Requests

Between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in the requests between Dec. 1 and May 31, Apple Inc., the Cupertino, California-based company said in a statement on its Website.

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Related Topix: Startups, Apple, Facebook, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Microsoft, Cupertino, CA, Criminal Defense Law, Law

21 hrs ago | Myrtle Beach Online

Ohio police chief takes criminals to task online

In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013 photo shows Brimfield Police Chief David Oliver talking about his facebook page in Kent, Ohio.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software, Kent, OH, Business News

Sun Jun 16, 2013

The Las Vegas Sun

Photo: Miss Connecticut Erin Brady is congratulated by ot

Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. Miss Connecticut Erin Brady is congratulated by other contestants after being crowned during the Miss USA pageant at the Planet Hollywood resort Saturday, June 16, 2013.

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Related Topix: Startups

AGBeat

Pepsi rewards Facebook Likes with sodas

Pepsi gives free cans of soda for each Facebook "like" via their new Like Machine, bringing the online world offline in a clever ad stunt.

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Related Topix: Startups, Marketing

Salon

Now the dead can send Facebook messages too

As a little girl, Jamie Cuthbertson, now 26, had a fear of being eaten by insects - spiders especially.

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software, Entomology, Science, Canada, Estate Planning, Personal Finance

Al Bawaba

It's 'Verified' that Myriam Fares is a Facebook frenzy

The social media sensation is currently the one and only Arab artist to have her page as 'Verified' on Facebook.

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Related Topix: Startups

CBS News

Video: Facebook reveals amount of data turned over to government

Facebook is revealing how much user data it's been forced to turn over to the federal government.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, WebMD

KYTX-TV News

Hundreds head out for early Tyler Juneteenth celebration

An elephant stuck in a well, a really big hornet's nest and flying food trays are all video that will have you talking today.

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Related Topix: CBS, Media, Television, Showtime Networks, Startups, Social Software, Breakfast, Life, Food

Sat Jun 15, 2013

The Leaf-Chronicle

New Myspace takes it back to the future

Tim and Chris Vanderhook think Myspace had it right - at one point. And they believe they've revived and improved that formula for success as the revamped first titan of social media debuts its latest incarnation.

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Related Topix: Social Software, MySpace, MySpace.com, Startups, Irvine, CA

News Max

Google, Facebook Negotiating With US Over Data Requests

Google and Facebook are holding discussions with the U.S. government to disclose more information about national-security requests, people with knowledge of the matter said.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Social Software, Robert Mueller

Denver Post

Help wanted: Lululemon's cheeky CEO ad

In this Tuesday, March 19, 2013 file photo, a woman walks past the Lululemon Athletica store at Union Square in New York.

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Related Topix: Lulu, Startups, Social Software

MarketWatch

Are Google, Facebook lying about the spying?

Despite their repeated denials, Google and Facebook simply can't shake off the question: Are they lying about the spying? "I only care when they are subpoenaed under oath," Ray Wang, chief executive of Constellation Research, a technology research organization, tweeted Thursday.

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Related Topix: Startups, Widevine Technologies, Twitter, Public Relations

San Jose Mercury News

Biz Break: Wall Street falls again ahead of Fed meeting, Facebook gets late bounce from invite

Today: Wall Street completes a rough week with more losses ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting on interest rates next week; Facebook gets a bounce after sending out press invitation, but other social-networking stocks do much better.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Financial Markets, Ben Bernanke, Quincy, CA, Ross, CA

Fri Jun 14, 2013

KRDO-TV Colorado Springs

Facebook, Microsoft reveal U.S. data requests

Technology giants Facebook and Microsoft disclosed that they received thousands of requests for user data from government agencies in the United States in the last half of 2012.

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Related Topix: Prison, Startups, Criminal Defense Law, Law

KTEN-TV Denison

Facebook: We can now say more on user surveillance

Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.

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Related Topix: Startups, Explosion, US Military, US Marine Corps

Coshocton Tribune

Cedar Point, Kings Island policy change angers parents of special-needs kids

MASON -- Parents are taking to Facebook and online support groups to express frustration with what they say is a policy change at some amusement parks that doesn't accommodate autistic children's special needs.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Startups, Harrison, OH, Recreation, Cedar Fair LP, Sandusky, OH, Mason, OH

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