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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 ...

  • Majority of teenagers now flocking to Twitter as Facebook enthusiasm wanes Study

    Teenagers are now turning to Twitter as their enthusiasm for Facebook is waning, a new study has found. The new report from the Pew Research Centre in America showed that teenagers "have waning enthusiasm" for Facebook, and increasingly seen as a burden. The report cited a number of reasons for the decreased enthusiasm in Facebook, including an 'increasing number of adults on the site', the ...

  • Skagit River Bridge collapse Who to follow what to watch on Twitter

    Since news broke Thursday night of the Skagit River bridge collapse that took out both the northbound and southbound lanes of I-5 in Mount Vernon, Wash., many people have turned to Twitter to get updates as soon as theyre available. Early reports indicate people are being transported to the hospital after cars fell into the river. The Coast Guard reportedly deployed search and rescue boats. The ...

  • Taser CEO Rick Smith sees bump in pay to $898K

    Rick Smith Taser International Inc. CEO Rick Smith more than tripled his pay in 2012, but the leader of the high-tech stun-gun manufacturer still has yet to collect more than $1 million in annual compensation. Smith earned compensation totaling $898,801 last year, a huge increase from the $276,344 earned during 2011. Much of that was due to stock awards and incentive pay as Scottsdale-based ...

  • ATT tacks 61 cent administrative fee on wireless customers bills

    AT&T has added a 61 cent administrative fee to the bills of its contract wireless customers. In a move that could result an additional half-billion dollars in revenue a year, Dallas-based AT&T announced that it has added a new month 61 cent administrative fee to its wireless contract customers. The fee went into effect on May 1, the Wall Street Journal reported. The charge is a so-called ...

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Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants

An increasingly rare specimen of old-fashioned Hollywood studio-produced entertainment, the type that leaves no room for irony or cynicism or thematic depth and instead resolves itself to warm hues of sentimentality, romance, and comfortably wrought eccentricity, Water f ... ...

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  • ViaWest plans big Minnesota data center

    ViaWest logo ViaWest is expanding to Minnesota, building its first data center there in coming months and opening the first part of it in early 2014. The Greenwood Village-based data center company bought 28 acres in the Minneapolis area and has designed a 150,000-square-foot data center to house and manage clients computer servers or host their cloud computing services. Demand within our hybrid ...

  • Google Facebook mull rival bids for Waze report

    -0.39% for Israeli mobile-app developer Waze Inc., according to an anonymously sourced Bloomberg News report late Thursday. Earlier news reports had tipped Facebook as conducting advanced talks to buy Waze for between $800 million and $1 billion. The Bloomberg report said Waze was seeking more than $1 billion from Google, and may decide to stay independent and raise financing instead. Waze, ...

  • Corrections officials investigating Facebook Instagram pictures

    An Instagram picture from user hehasnochill that claims to have been taken inside the Baltimore City Detention Center. The original caption reads: "In my cell and guess what? Im still the heart of the streetswestside what's ...

  • Twitter Lets Brands Find Viewers of Their TV Ads

    For those inclined toward social media, using Twitter while watching television has become a ritual, with viewers commenting on everything from sports events to nighttime dramas. On Thursday, executives from Twitter discussed how they planned to capitalize on that activity by allowing advertisers to send ads to people who are watching specific programming. The new product, called Twitter ...

  • UPDATE 1-Google like Facebook in talks to buy Waze for $1 bln-report

    Thu May 23, 2013 9:44pm EDT * Waze seeks more than $1 bln, multiple parties interested-Bloomberg * Maps and navigation services a key asset for tech firms * Apple not part of discussions - Bloomberg May 23 (Reuters) - Google Inc is considering buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze Inc, which may lead to a bidding war with Facebook Inc, Bloomberg news reported, citing people ...

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