Social Media Star, How You Can Be One (video)

Social Media Star: Here’s How You Can Be One: Video - Bloomberg:
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Social Media Star Andrea Russett and DigiTour CEO Meredith Valiando Rojas discuss social media stardom on “Market Makers.” (Source: Bloomberg - Sept 11, 2014)

Branson: Hat's Off to Apple, Mobile Payments Are the Future: Video - Bloomberg:
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Billionaire Sir Richard Branson, chairman and founder of Virgin Group, comments on Apple's new products. He speaks with Trish Regan on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg Sept 10)


Wall Street Journal
Yahoo Faced Big US Fines Over User Data
Wall Street Journal
Yahoo made the threat public Thursday after a special federal court unsealed 1,500 pages of legal documents from a once-classified court battle over ...
US threatened massive fine to force Yahoo to release data - Washington Post

The next 7 days are crucial for Apple consumers
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — There you were, thinking we were past the Apple hoopla stirred up by the company's iPhone and Apple Watch unveilings ...
Apple's future - The Economist
'Aye Yi iPhone!!' When Servers Crash and Apple Sales…Soar! - Fox Business
iPhone 6 pre-orders overwhelm Apple, quickly sell out - Fortune


CNN
Can the Apple Watch take off as a fashion accessory?
CNN
"As soon as the Apple Watch is available I will be adding it into my life, but ... Unfortunately for Apple, most people will only wear one watch. ... Apple Watch can avoid the stigma of a Bluetooth headset -- or even Google Glass. ... But if any technologycompany has a chance of stealing precious wrist real ...
Apple Legitimizes The Smartwatch Category: Part 1 Style And Social Acceptance - Forbes


Times of India
Apple Pay Tips To New Era Of Fully Digitized Money
Forbes
The new Apple Apple Pay system though is quite interesting and it is too ... as financial institutions recognize that they face challenges from technology ... despite a strong attempt to pioneer digital wallets by Google Checkout. ... you could exchange them for dollars only within the Amazon marketplace.

Google lets college students borrow a Chromebook
Jon Fingas
If you brought a big, conventional laptop with you to college, you're probably regretting it right about now. It's not fun to lug a heavy machine and.

Wondering what it cost Apple to give away that U2 album to every customer?
Ben Lovejoy
To release U2's album free, Apple paid the band and Universal an unspecified fee as a blanket royalty and committed to a marketing campaign for the ...

Facebook Takes Down Page Showing How to Use a Female Condom
Rebecca Rose
At the University of Chicago, Patty Fernandez runs an organization called Tea Time and Sex Chats. "What we do is talk about sexual health [and ] ...

Shocker: HHS Obamacare Technology Has Yet Another Glitch
Sarah Hurtubise
There's yet another problem with technology the Obama administration is using to approve health insurance plans for Obamacare regulations, The ...

How Much Value Can Apple Watch Create?
Nitin Gulati
With its ambitious series of announcements earlier this week, Apple ... on these new applications of interactivetechnology, distinguished chiefly by a ...

Apple Watch 'too feminine, looks like it was designed by a student'
IBNLive.com editor@ibnlive.com
Berlin: Apple's long-awaited smartwatch looks "too feminine" and its design will not stand the test of time, luxury giant LVMH's watch guru has told ...

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Obamacare Website Still Not Fixed

The US taxpayers are out more than 500 million dollars for one website -- and the Affordable Care Act's (Obamacare) website healthcare.gov still isn't fixed or anywhere close to being finished -- at this rate Amazon or any other company would either have fired their CEO or be out of business, or both!

Obamacare Website Getting Fixes as Repair Deadline Passes - Bloomberg: "....Karen Ignagni, president and chief executive officer of America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry group, said Nov. 29 that while the site is improved, “significant issues” remain. “Until the enrollment process is working from end-to-end, many consumers will not be able to enroll in coverage,” Ignagni said in a statement."

.... [even] larger troubles with the law.

“Americans are far less concerned about a website than they are about the availability and affordability of their health care,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement.

“The White House has tried to dismiss stories about folks losing insurance by saying they had lousy plans to begin with, and that those Americans should be happy that the government is now forcing them to get a different one,” said McConnell... “But what so many have discovered is that Obamacare is actually worse.”..."

Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Care Site, and Obama - NYTimes.com: "As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Obama’s chief domestic accomplishment was falling apart 24 miles away, at a bustling high-tech data center in suburban Virginia. HealthCare.gov, the $630 million online insurance marketplace, was a disaster after it went live on Oct. 1..."

Can Amazon Save Christmas?

Daily Beast
You might not expect the e-tailing behemoth to inspire the rest of us to give a little extra at Christmas, but the Smile program could change the contours of ...

Microsoft, bored of bashing Apple, bashes Samsung

CNET
Microsoft, bored of bashing Apple, bashes Samsung. It's been established that Microsoft believes the iPad has many, many flaws. Now Redmond would like you ...

PRPick.com

Amazon vs. retailers

Kankakee Daily Journal
NEW YORK — This holiday shopping season, it's Amazon vs. everyone else. ... Stores are doing things such as matching the lower prices on Amazon.com and ...

Google Privacy Settings Change Breaks Dutch Law, Says Data ...

Latino Post
Last year's change to Google's privacy policy may have gone unnoticed by some Google users, but privacy advocates and watchdog groups took notice. Now ...

Acquisition puts Amazon rivals in awkward spot

Boston Globe
If you opt to do your holiday shopping on Amazon.com, odds are good that the ... at Apple and WebVan, a dot-com-era grocery delivery venture that flopped.

Boston Globe

Google hosting Saxo-Tinkoff presser in London

velonews.competitor.com
MILAN, Italy (VN) — Google this: The U.S.-based internet company may be poised to enter pro cycling. Google will host a press conference Monday in London ...

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SMS Attacks Could Force Google Nexus Devices To Reboot

RedOrbit
Reports have surfaced claiming that attackers could force the most recentGoogle Nexus smartphones to reboot or lose their mobile Internet connection by ...

RedOrbit

Apple's iOS Destroyed Android in Black Friday Mobile Shopping

Patently Apple
According to both IBM and Adobe, Apple's iOS is "destroying Google'sAndroid in mobile shopping on Thanksgiving and Black Friday," reports Business Insider.

Latino Post

Apple iPad Mini 2 Retina Availability Up While 12.9-inch iPad ...

Latino Post
Tech watchers and Apple fans have been watching the build-up to the holiday shopping season closely. This is because burn-in issues, from a portion of the ...

Latino Post

Apple retail stores go (RED) for World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 | 9to5Mac

Jordan Kahn
1, Apple has started to change its iconic Apple logo outside of its retail stores from ... One of those organizations is Product(RED), a charity that that Apple has ... A Festivus Miracle: Google Search 'Festivus' to celebrate with 'the rest of us' · Thumbnail for ... Moto G now available on Amazon, shipsDecember 4 · Thumbnail for ...
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Amazon: Going Exclusive - Seeking Alpha

Vivek Gupta
The companies like Amazon, Netflix (NFLX), Hulu, Google's (GOOG) YouTube, etc. are competing with each other to get a lead in the industry. Netflix is clearly ...
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Is Amazon a Good Portfolio Play? - Wall St. Cheat Shee

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Amazon stock has been flying higher in recent years and is now trading near all-time high prices....
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Tell Your Relatives: No, Microsoft Won't Call You About Your ...

Chris Hoffman
“Hi, I'm from Microsoft and we've noticed your computer has a lot of viruses. ... For example, below we have a variety of errors in that state Apple's Bonjour ...
How-To Geek

China launches 'Jade Rabbit' rover on its first moon-landing mission
NBCNews.com
A Long March 3B rocket lifts off from China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center early Monday Beijing time, carrying the Chang'e 3 spacecraft on the first leg of its journey to the moon. China launched a powerful rocket on Sunday to send the country's first lunar ...

Black Hole Discovered Which Emits Brilliant Light
Guardian Express
When a recently-discovered black hole was discovered which emits brilliant light, scientists were baffled, and scrambled to explain how a black hole could shine with such brilliance. According to a new study, the black-hole system called ULX-1 in the nearby ...

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Obamacare Website Needs Total Overhaul

Obamacare's "government program" website -- 10-year-old technology requiring "constant fixes and updates" --

Tech experts: Health exchange site needs total overhaul: "The federal health care exchange was built using 10-year-old technology that may require constant fixes and updates for the next six months and the eventual overhaul of the entire system, technology experts told USA TODAY. The site could be perfect, but if the systems from which it draws data are not up to speed, it doesn't matter, said John Engates, chief technology officer at Rackspace, a cloud computer service provider. "It is a core problem in the sense of it's fundamental to this thing actually working, but it's not necessarily a problem that the people who wrote HealthCare.gov can get to," Engates said. "Even if they had a perfect system, it still won't work.". . ."

Google Brings 'Supervised Users' Feature to Latest Chrome Beta Build
Android Headlines - Android News
If you thought Chrome was already perfect, you were wrong. Google continues to add more and more features to Chrome and Chrome OS. Earlier today, Google announced their newest Chrome Beta build, which features a new feature. Called “Supervised ...

Amazon Shares On Fire After 24% Revenue Increase

Forbes
As shares of Amazon continued to climb in after-hours trading Thursday,Amazon competitors Apple Apple was up just 0.40% and Barnes & Noble Noble was ...

New York Times

Apple's Russia Push May Fizzle on Price as IPhones Go Global

Bloomberg
Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s push to win users in Russia, one of the countries where the latest ... with its cheaper devices running Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android software.

Apple Insider

Google Or Microsoft? Army Users Get Choice

InformationWeek
Army blanket purchase agreements to buy Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 licenses offer non-Defense Enterprise Email users a choice of cloud software.

Amazon Pioneer Recalls Bezos's Quirks, Victories And Flaws

Forbes
In 1994, Borders was a thriving bookstore chain. Hardly anyone shopped on the Internet. And in Bellevue, Wash., a two-person startup, Amazon.com, was ...

Economic Times

Apple Embraces Free: 5 Reasons Why

InformationWeek (blog)
Then came Google Apps and Gmail, Android and Google Play, Chrome and Chrome OS. The playbook that Apple used to thrive in the shadow ofMicrosoft ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Apple's Location-Tracking iBeacon Is Poised for Use in Retail Sales

Businessweek
Search Google (GOOG) for “Apple iBeacon” and you won't get any results from Apple.com. Look for the term on the company's website, and you'll get one hit, ...

Microsoft confirms Windows Phone's Twitter feature is causing excessive data use

Donald Melanson
You're not alone. As The Verge reports, Microsoft has confirmed that a recent. ... Microsoft confirms builtin Twitter feature is causing excess data use, says it'll be.
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Apple releases Apple TV 6.0.1 (11B511d) firmware update | 9to5Mac 

Jordan Kahn
Apple today issued a firmware update for Apple TV after earlier this week rolling out a ... Today's firmware update brings Apple TV software up to version 6.0.1, build ... Google launches new tool to let U.S. businesses create Google Offers for ... Amazon “Firetube” set-top box delayed, probably won't be here in time for the…
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Google Updates DoubleClick For Publishers Ad Serving Algorithm ...

Kelsey Jones
The Search Engine Journal team received an email from a member of the Google DoubleClick team last afternoon that announced that changes to the Ad ...
Search Engine Journal

Microsoft Reports Decline In Xbox Sales, Increase In Xbox Live ...

Mike Futter
Xbox 360 sales are down, but Microsoft's overall financials are healthier than ever. ... another Apple, change is good, and I hope to see more of it from Microsoft, ...
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Google Tests Top Banner Ads | Ubergizmo

Edwin Kee
Google has recently confirmed that they are currently testing out such ads with a tiny percentage of its user base. According to a Google spokesperson, it has been deemed as “a small experiment. ...Alienware Offers Console Trade In Program · Apple Starts Selling OS X Lion ... Samsung · Google ·Apple · Microsoft · Sony ...
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Samsung Patents Wearable Display to Rival Google Glass
Along with Sony, it's among the first of today's major smartphone makers to launch a smartwatch, while other companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and ...
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New galaxy 'most distant' yet discovered
BBC News
The galaxy is about 30 billion light-years away and is helping scientists shed light on the period that immediately followed the Big Bang. It was found using the Hubble Space Telescope and its distance was then confirmed with the ground-based Keck ...

It's so lonely using Blackberry Messenger for Android
CNET
Hours after installing BBM for Android, my BBM contact list is still empty, mocking me with the thought that I have no friends. So I won't even write about the messaging experience -- that's covered everywhere else. Instead, I'll just share some of the thoughts ...

T-Mobile to Sell New iPads, Offer All Tablet Users 200MB Free
eWeek
T-Mobile thinks it's time more people used tablets with a cellular connection. To encourage them, it's offering 200MB free each month. T-Mobile's latest "un-carrier" moves follow the Oct. 22 introduction of the Apple iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina display....

Free! Why Apple's New OS X Mavericks, iLife, iWork Pricing Is a Big Deal
ABC News
"YOU GET MAVERICKS! AND YOU GET MAVERICKS! EVERYBODY GETS MAVERICKS!" Craig Federighi, Apple's VP of software engineering, may not have actually said that, but he channeled Oprah Winfrey in spirit by giving away some of his favorite ...

How to manage a failed OS X Mavericks installation
CNET
If your attempts to install OS X Mavericks are not working or have your system stuck, then here are some quick steps to take to get up and running. Topher Kessler. by Topher Kessler. October 23, 2013 10:50 AM PDT. OS X Mavericks offers a number of new ...

New Mac Pro Gives Apple More Business Gravitas
PC Magazine
When we last had a new Mac Pro in PCMag Labs for review back in 2010, our lead desktop and laptop analyst, Joel Santo Domingo, called it "nominally a workstation-class PC." Yes, it was fast and had some business-y features. However, for those of us who ...

Using Lasers, NASA Set A New Speed Record For Sending Data To The Moon
Fast Company
The agency's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration will be used for communication with next-gen satellites. By: Addy Dugdale · NASA has been testing the use of laser beams to send data transmissions through space, and just broke records for speed.

Twitter sets cautious valuation for IPO
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter set a price range for its initial public offering Thursday, putting a conservative valuation of at least $10 billion on its business to try to avoid pitfalls suffered by rival social-media company Facebook, when it went public last year.

Apple Mac users upgrading to new Mavericks OS X at a record pace?
Los Angeles Times
More than three times as many users were reportedly surfing the Web with Mavericks OS X on the first day of its release than those who did so with its predecessor, Mountain Lion OS X. In just 24 hours, users who downloaded and installed Apple's new ...

Golden Joysticks: Grand Theft Auto 5 bags Game of the Year award
BBC News
The adult-themed crime game, Grand Theft Auto 5, has won the top prize at the Golden Joystick awards. Rockstar's controversial game - where players commit crime in the fictional city of Los Santos - was presented with the Game of the Year gong at a ...

Mozilla Lightbeam Shows Who's Watching You Online
Mashable
In the spirit of online transparency, and for those paranoid about organizations watching your every move, a new tool from Mozilla lets you monitor who is following your digital footprint. Lightbeam is a free extension available for download on Mozilla's Firefox ...

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