Tag: Twitter Wed, May 22, 2013
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Gov. Jerry Brown announced Thursday that California will be joining Maryland and Illinois as the third state to ban employers and universities from demanding social media login passwords. The bill originated out of the office of Assemblymember Nora Campos (D-San Jose).
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Courtesy of SV411.com, here’s a quick rundown of the latest technology news in Silicon Valley, including the Microsoft acquisition of Yammer, the first Tesla Model S sedans to hit the road and Twitter’s explanation for the two-hour global shutdown last week.
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Man Gets Naked in Security Search before Flight to San Jose
Community Apr 24, 2012, by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon
A high-tech worker from Silicon Valley stripped naked during a TSA security search last week before trying to board a flight from Portland International Airport to San Jose. The voluntary strip search served as a protest against airport security screeners in an act John E. Brennan, 49, deemed protected political speech.
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TECH UPDATE: Tesla Reports Major Losses, Apple Apps on Fire
Business Feb 21, 2012, by Silicon Valley Newsroom
Courtesy of SV411.com, here’s a quick rundown of the latest technology news in Silicon Valley, including Apple nearing 25 billion app downloads, Tesla taking a huge loss and Intel delaying its new CPU.
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HP Closes Autonomy Deal
Business Oct 04, 2011, by Danny WoolHP is now the proud owner of Autonomy, the British-based firm that creates search tools for unstructured data like emails and Twitter feeds.
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Rumors about Steve Jobs Race through Internet
Business Sep 12, 2011, by Danny Wool
It all began with a tweet by the CBS “What’s Trending?” Twitter feed on Friday afternoon. For a few brief moments, the world was led to believe that Steve Jobs is dead. A short time later, “What’s Trending?” removed the tweet and issued an oddly worded retraction, “Apologies- reports of Steve Job’s death completely unconfirmed. Live on.”
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What Does Yahoo Say About Chinese Censorship?
BusinessPolitics Aug 29, 2011, by Danny WoolYahoo is being scrutinized for Taobao, a software program created by one of the company’s partners. The program is used in China and prevents Internet users from evading web censors.
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Tweet Is Both a Noun and a Verb
Community Aug 26, 2011, by Danny WoolJust a decade ago, the word “tweet” was easily defined as “a weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.” That may still be what it means when you’re reading a children’s book, but more savvy logophiles know that a tweet is more commonly used today to describe “a very short message posted on the Twitter Web site.”
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The Russians Are Coming … to Twitter
BusinessPolitics Aug 02, 2011, by Danny Wool
Twitter has received an $800 million dollar infusion of venture capital from Yuri Milner’s Digital Sky Technologies investment fund, the largest VC investment in history.
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Google to Cooperate with the FTC
Business Jul 08, 2011, by Danny WoolGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt said the company plans to cooperate with antitrust investigators looking into complaints that search results favor Google’s own services over those of its competitors.
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