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10 min ago | Herald Independent

Genealogical society holds workshop for new website

The S.C. Genealogical Society is made up of 17 chapters including the Fairfield Chapter, which held its monthly meeting Thursday.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Knoxville News Sentinel

Scripps uncovered security risks for some Lifeline phone customers

Customers of Lifeline, a federal program for low-income Americans, benefit by getting discounted phone service.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology

I-Newswire.com

Travel Site Search Engine Optimization Offer 50% Discount on All Packages

Are you a travel agent or tour operator with a website? Do you want it on page one of Google? Fill in the free website review form at the top of the page and find out how we can help you.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Optimization inc., Science / Technology, Marketing

The WHIR

@WalmartLabs Acquires Cloud Startups OneOps, Tasty Labs

Both of the acquisitions were for undisclosed amounts. @WalmartLabs is the Silicon Valley operations of Walmart's ecommerce division and was created to help the big box retailer do ecommerce and compete with the likes of Amazon.

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Related Topix: Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Amazon, Social Software

ABS-CBN News

2 suspected Globe 'hackers' nabbed

Ancheta, on the other hand, was caught while re-activating the modem of a poseur customer on Litex Road, Brgy.

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CNet News

AMD's Feldman: ARM Will Quickly Gain Market Share in Servers

ARM will take significant market share from Intel in the server chip space over the next few years, and Advanced Micro Devices will be a key vendor benefiting from the shift, according to the head of AMD's server business.

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Related Topix: Advanced Micro Devices, Startups, Intel, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, CPU

The Peninsula

Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million IDs stolen

TOKYO: Yahoo Japan Corp. has said it suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal.

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Related Topix: Yahoo! Japan, Science / Technology

Fri May 17, 2013

Wall Street Journal

Facebook Gets Serious About Making Money

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com On the anniversary of its IPO, mobile is taking off on Facebook.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Menlo Park, CA, Science / Technology

Sports of Yore

8 Data-Based Tips for Optimizing Your Content on Pinterest and Instagram

Even though the two most popular social networks to emerge in the past few years revolve around visual content, there isn't much data about what content performs best on these platforms.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Twitter, Science / Technology, Life, Food, Recipes

Internet Retailer

U.K. e-retail sales spring up 16% in April

Warmer temperatures and school holidays helped U.K. e-retailers boost sales by 16% year over year in April, according to the latest report from business and technology consultancy Capgemini and U.K. e-retail association Interactive Media in Retail Group .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Home Gardening, Home

International Business Times

Morrisons to Launch E-Commerce Site Under Partnership with Ocado

British supermarket chain Morrisons is partnering with online food retailer Ocado Group to enter into online grocery market from January 2014.

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Related Topix: Retail, Ocado, Grocery, Science / Technology

Internet Retailer

Wal-Mart's online sales grow more than 30% in Q1

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported today that its online sales grew more than 30% in the first quarter of the year, and said it planned to expand its e-commerce operations in key markets around the world.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Science / Technology

Thu May 16, 2013

Wireless Design & Development

Google's Products Dig Deeper into People's Lives

"Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life," Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and entrepreneurs who flocked to San Francisco Wednesday for the opening day of Google's annual showcase for its latest breakthroughs.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Computers, Science / Technology, iPhone, Ipad

The Campbell Reporter

Google receiving sensitive searches redirected from rival in Vietnam

A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google's dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company's website, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology

Mirror.co.uk

Google branded 'evil' and 'devious' by MPs over its UK tax bill

Google was today branded devious, unethical and evil as MPs condemned the tactics the internet giant has used to dodge tax.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Marketing

New Hampshire Public Radio -

CrowdMed: Diagnosing Unsolved Sicknesses With Crowdsourcing

After using email and using a search engine, looking for health information is the third most popular web activity for internet users.

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GHacks

TorrentRover: Desktop Torrent search engine

You have quite a few options when it comes to finding torrent files. You can use a public or private torrent indexing site, use a meta search engine instead, a plain search engine or a desktop program that you can make use of.

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Iol.co.za

Porn and your child

Porn is everywhere. Not just in cybersex and magazines, but also in books, popular video games, advice columns, phone messages and movies.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Science / Technology

Wed May 15, 2013

Digital Video Editing

Tencent eyes revenue growth, triples chat app users in first-quarter

Tencent Holdings more than tripled the number of active users for its mobile chat application in the first quarter, a boon to China's largest online gaming and social networking firm as it tries to diversify its revenue stream.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Science / Technology

LBC 97.3

Amazon Paid 2.4m Tax on 4.2bn Sales In 2012

Amazon.com's main UK unit paid 2.4m in taxes in 2012 on sales of 4.3bn, newly-published accounts have revealed.

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