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Google+ releases Pages for brands

by Ane Howard, November 7, 2011 | Comments

Only available to businesses lucky enough to have received an invitation

Google is moving closer to mirroring Facebook as it launches Google+ Pages, a new service that allows brands and businesses to be found. For businesses and brands, Google becomes another platform to market themselves on. For consumers, they'll be able to search not only for people and friends, but loyalty programs, brands and businesses. These results will be compiled as ...

Barnes and Noble to release a new Nook tablet Nov. 16

by Ane Howard, November 4, 2011 | Comments

	Leaked information reveals tablet to be lighter, slimmer, faster and $249 Next week is going to be an eventful one for Barnes and Noble. On November 7, a press conference in New York City is going to be held at which announcements of new products are expected to be released. But by then, one news will no longer be news. The color Nook Tablet listed at $249. The product release leaked ...
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How social media fueled Occupy Wall Street

by Ane Howard, November 3, 2011 | Comments

The hashtag revolution trickled down one tweet at the time, giving birth to a movement

The Occupy Wall Street protests have been at the forefront of the news since September, morphing into a global movement that seems to have capture the mind of millions. At the G20 Summit in full swing in Cannes this week, there’s a noticeable silence about the topic from President Obama. But the OWS movement has recruited Bill Gates, a ...

Assange loses fight against extradition to Sweden

by Ane Howard, November 2, 2011 | Comments

UK court gives the green light to Sweden. Assange to face sexual charges

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief, has lost his battle against extradition and must return to Sweden to face sexual assault charges, a British Court ruled today. The High Court in London on Wednesday supported an earlier ruling by the a lower court in Sweden that allowed the extradition request back to Sweden to move forward. "The action of the Prosecutor has ...

Seva Search raises $1.3M for mobile and local service

by Ane Howard, November 1, 2011 | Comments

Seva Call to connect consumers with local businesses

Startup Seva Search announced Tuesday that it has raised $1.3 million in Series A funding for its first product, Seva Call. The Metro D.C.-based local search company is soon to launch a search engine that lets consumers connect via phone with local businesses, in near real-time. Investors in the Series A round early stage venture fund Fortify.vc; Ed Mathias, Tim Sykes, Jay Virdy, David Eisner, Andrew Bachman, Jigar Shah, Krishna Subramanian, Vishal Gurbaxani, Arjun Dev Arora, Saket ...

Google Maps to start charging heavy users

by Ane Howard, October 31, 2011 | Comments

Starting in January 2012, Google will charge businesses for loads over 25,000

Clearly looking for new ways to monetize services and diversify away from its traditional search revenue, Google has announced on its blog that starting January 2012 it is planning to charge businesses for the convenience of using its Google Maps services, when they pass a certain number of maps loads. Individual users won't be affected by this new fee, or what you could call ...

DSK's wife to run French HuffPost

by Ane Howard, October 30, 2011 | Comments

Anne Sinclair rumored to become "boss-lady" at Le HuffPost

Talking about bouncing back from the depth of scandal? Anne Sinclair, former political journalist, French TV personality, but most recently better known for being the wife of Dominic Strauss Kahn is rumored to have been offered the role of “Boss Lady” by Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief and founder of the Huffington Post, at Le HuffPost,the soon-to-be launched French version of the newsmagazine.Ever ...

Samsung Galaxy Nexus coming to UK

by Ane Howard, October 28, 2011 | Comments

For those craving ice cream sandwich-based smartphone, release date is Nov. 17

Even though this October all of our “mobile” attention has been focused on Apple and news surrounding the iPhone 4S, Samsung has some pretty exciting news of its own. Samsung's Galaxy Nexus' release date is now official. The much anticipated new Galaxy smartphone will available in the UK on November 17th, and in the rest of Europe in the following ...

Heinz launches limited-edition ketchup on Facebook

by Ane Howard, October 27, 2011 | Comments

Consumer-goods giant hopes its yummy ketchup and vinegar combo will find new friends

Heinz is getting creative with its ketchup and its marketing. The consumer-goods giant is turning to Facebook to sell a new signature ketchup, "Ketchup with Balsamic Vinegar." Yummy. The new campaign puts H. J. Heinz, a global leader in the food industry, in the forefront of social media marketing, an area the food and beverage industry has been slow to ...

Austrian student fights Facebook over privacy

by Ane Howard, October 26, 2011 | Comments

Formal investigation has been launched against Facebook

Max Schrems, a 22-year-old Austrian student from Vienna, got more than he asked for when he requested Facebook to turn over all of his data. Schrems claims on his website, called "Europe vs. Facebook," that he received a CD-ROM containing an overwhelming 800 pages of sheer data, covering most of his activities on the network, since the moment he joined in 2008. Digging through ...

Father of iPod creates "Learning" thermostat

by Ane Howard, October 25, 2011 | Comments

Tony Fadell starts a new 100-person startup called Nest Labs

Tony Fadell, a former Apple engineer, who is largely credited with the invention of iPod turned his creative gaze to the problems of conserving energy at home, and launched a new startup Nest Labs. The first product to come out of Nest is a smart thermostat that can be programmed remotely and remembers your heating and cooling preferences. Fadell discussed on his ...

Steve Jobs book – the good, the bad and the genius

by Ane Howard, October 24, 2011 | Comments

Biography, available in bookstores today, reveals a perfectionist with a fiery temper

The book "Steve Jobs," published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS, and written by Walter Isaacson, takes a no-holds-barred look at Jobs’ life and legacy. The book, originally scheduled for release in November, came out today, just a short two weeks following Jobs' death. Jobs would have appreciated the timely release. When Walter Isaacson, a former Time Magazine ...

Disney illustrator, Mary Blair, honored by Google

by Ane Howard, October 21, 2011 | Comments

Artist would have turned 100 today; She's best known for "It's a Small World" boat ride

If you logged onto Google this morning, you probably had a double take and asked: "Hmm. Nice image. Who is that?" Mary Blair, one of Walt Disney favorite illustrator and the only woman in a elite group of nine animators, is being honored Friday by Google's doodle. Blair who died at the age of 66 in 1978, was born in Oklahoma ...

Waze, a social traffic app, lands $30M in funding

by Ane Howard, October 18, 2011 | Comments

Waze is backed by Horizons Ventures Hong Kong, KPCB, and iFund

Palo Alto-based Waze announced Tuesday that it raised $30 million in growth funding, led by Horizons Ventures Hong Kong, which manages the private venture investments of Li Ka Shing in the technology sector, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) Digital Growth Fund and iFund. This latest round of funding comes on the heels of Waze's $25 million round of funding last December, which was led ...

FBI's “Operation Hackerazzi” comes to an end

by Ane Howard, October 14, 2011 | Comments

Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johansson among the victims of celebs hacker; but you could be next

It seems that every day now, we hear about someone, somewhere, breaking and hacking into personal files on personal computers, and mobile devices, without much of a sweat. Just a couple of weeks ago, I reported about the arrest of a young Arizona man charged with extensive computer attacks against the computer systems of Sony Pictures Entertainment. That is just one out ...

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