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  • Twitter beefs up security with two-step login 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 ...

  • Facebook doesnt excite teens anymore

    The interest of teenagers is moving away from social networking platform Facebook, and they prefer "parent-free" platforms, according to a survey. The survey, conducted by Pew Research Center, indicates how teenagers' enthusiasm for Facebook is diminishing. The authors of the Pew report wrote how Facebook is now a "social burden" for teenaged users. "While Facebook is still deeply integrated ...

  • Another Peak Facebook Prediction

    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 ...

  • In this weeks issue Jumping into action

    Its impossible not to smile when you see Photo Editor Randy Siners cover image for the May 24 print edition of Albuquerque Business First. Its impossible not to smile when you see Photo Editor Randy Siners cover image for the May 24 print edition of Albuquerque Business First. The photo is of NDI New Mexico, our Education category winner in the Nonprofit of the Year awards. In the image, seven ...

  • Twitter libel Sally Bercow says she has learned the hard way as she settles with Tory peer Lord McAlpine over libellous tweet

    Sally Bercow, wife of the Commons Speaker, has paid damages to Lord McAlpine, after the High Court found that a tweet posted by her which falsely linked him to an allegation of child sexual abuse was highly ...


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I am usually attuned to significant trends in popular culture, whether they be on disc, in print, or on screen, which is why I was surprised to learn not too long ago that I had somehow completely missed the arrival and growing popularity of Stephenie Meyers series of teen-pulp gothic novels a ... ...

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  • ITV News Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

    LONDON (Reuters) - Broadcaster ITV on Friday became the latest media outlet to have one of its Twitter feeds hacked by anonymous supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, just days after Twitter beefed up security to prevent ...

  • JELL-O Turns An Internet Profanity Into Twitter Fun

    profane exclamation/meme that roughly translates to: Gee, what an unfortunate place I've come to at this particular point in my life." Instead, think "Fun My Life." Via a new campaign from CP+B, the dessert brand is asking the confounded to tweet @Jello about exactly what kind of ...

  • Facebook brand design lead departs for startup

    Paul Adams/Facebook ) Paul Adams, Facebook's global head of brand design, announced Friday that he has left the social network to join startup Intercom, which makes a social customer relationship management ...

  • Aveo partner will not seek European approval for kidney cancer drug

    Tuan Ha-Ngoc, president and CEO, Aveo Oncology Aveo Oncology (Nasdaq:AVEO) remained quiet Friday after the news that its partner to commercialize its potential drug for kidney cancer is giving up plans to seek approval for the drug in Europe, and wont pay for further trials. Shares in Aveo opened Friday down 17 percent, but by noon, had risen to $2.58 a share, about 4 percent below Thursdays ...

  • Peabody taps analytics app to track worker productivity

    Greg Boyce Peabody Energy has added a business intelligence platform at its Bear Run Mine in Sullivan County, Ind., to track when employees start working during shifts and how long they are gone during lunch breaks. The technology, which runs mostly on Walldorf, Germany-based SAPs BusinessObjects software, tracks employees late starts (measured by when the bucket of a shovel, excavator or ...

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