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Twitter beefs up security with two-step login
NEW YORK - Aiming to tackle recent high-profile breaches, popular micro-blogging site Twitter is introducing an optional two-step login for users to beef up security. The new system would try to ensure "it's really you" when a user signs in to Twitter, which transmits some 400 million messages a day. The move follows recent attacks into the twitter accounts of news organisations' such as ...
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Google attempts to trump Facebook $1bn bid for Waze
USA Google are among a number of companies circling Israeli mapping software company Waze after Facebook put in a $1bln takeover bid. Bloomberg reports that none of the bidders are close to clinching a deal, and the start-up might remain independent.Founded 4 years ago, Waze makes a navigation application for iPhone and Android used by roughly 45 million people. Its mapping service is ...
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Two bailed after arrest over Twitter comments about Woolwich murder
Two men have been released on bail after their arrest for allegedly making offensive comments on Twitter about the murder of a British soldier in ...
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Meet Vin Ryan King of the mountain
Meet Vin Ryan, the Boston billionaire youve never heard of. In roughly a month, Iron Mountain Inc. will hold a shareholder vote to make yet another exception to its 75-year age limit for corporate directors, a nod to the important advisory role played by longtime board member Vin Ryan, 77, whose term expires this year. Classified as an independent director, Ryan is Iron Mountains largest ...
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Nuance analysts cheered by Icahns growing clout
On the heels of a dismal quarter plagued by poor execution and a spike in operating costs, Nuance Communications received yet another wake-up call earlier this month when it was disclosed that activist investor Carl Icahn has added to his ownership stake in the company. While some analysts have since suggested that a little shareholder activism is exactly what the Burlington-based company needs ...
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Rescue Dawn
In Rescue Dawn, writer/director Werner Herzog returns to Dieter Dengler, the subject of his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. The German-born Dengler, who was a U.S. Navy pilot in the mid-1960s, was shot down over Laos in 1966 on a reconnaissance mission and was c ... ...
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City tech job commutes that compute
Nicholas Reid used to have a horrible commute. Every morning, the Society Hill resident bicycled to a SEPTA station, took a train to Wilmington and then biked to the headquarters of SevOne, where he directs product management and design. Then, every night, he reversed the process. It was a 20-mile bike ride in total, Reid said. Now, Reids commute is a 10-minute walk. Thats because SevOne, which ...
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CEO File Tim McLaughlin
Tim McLaughlin CEO Intuitive Company on a custom made staircase in it self-designed studio in the historic Waterworks building in Manayunk. PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Tim McLaughlin. Age: 38. Title: Principal, relationship strategy. Company: Intuitive ...
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Peak Facebook British users lose their Liking for Zucks ad empire
Facebook's popularity is slumping in the UK as users become fed up with being bombarded with advertising, a YouGov survey has revealed. In a report examining social media use among web-savvy Brits, the market research firm found a 9 per cent drop in Facebook usage since April ...
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Russian regulator blacklists social media site VK
The future of Russia's biggest social media site was thrown into a state of flux Friday after the country's communications regulator moved to shut it down.The site, VKontakte, is similar to Facebook and has roughly 200 million registered users. On Friday a notice on the website of Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass ...
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TV-related tweets may attract ads with new Twitter campaign
A new advertising method from Twitter will watch for tweets from you about certain TV shows and allow those shows' advertisers to target you. Of course, you can always ignore their tweets the way you ignored their commercials.The new way to target ads was described ...