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Kelly Hodgkins / The Unofficial Apple Weblog - 80 days, 6 hours, 5 minutes ago
Mark Zuckerberg discusses Steve Jobs with Charlie Rose - PBS talk show host Charlie Rose recently interviewed Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. The trio talked about a variety of topics including political policy, the engineering shortage and the goals of the Facebook...
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Jeremy Muncy / WebProNews - 84 days, 8 hours, 2 minutes ago
Can the Republicans Match the Democrats’ Social Media Prowess in 2012? - The 2012 Presidential election is fast approaching. It’ll be interesting to see how much more of a role social media will play in the election, compared to that of 2008. While at the Blogworld Expo in L.A.
WebProBlog, The Social Times, Forbes, PSFK, Forbes, ITWeb Internet Feed, MediaPost

Inquirer - 81 days, 10 hours, 10 minutes ago
BREIN scores a victory against a major Usenet provider - Bigger targets might be in its sights
TorrentFreak, Techdirt

MarketWatch - 85 days, 4 hours, 23 minutes ago
Stocks to Watch: Stocks to Watch Friday: CBS, Starbucks - CBS, Chesapeake Energy, LinkedIn and Starbucks are among the stocks that could see movement in Friday trading.
TheStreet.com: Business Wire, TheStreet.com

TheStreet.com - 85 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes ago
Starbuck Details Commodity Cost Pressures - NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Starbucks beat Wall Street profit expectations for its fiscal fourth-quarter results by a penny Thursday as revenue came in better than expected but gave a fiscal 2012 outlook with downside to the current consensus...
Beyond Search, Beyond Search

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land - 85 days, 9 hours, 16 minutes ago
Bing Webmaster Tools Fall 2011 Upgrade -
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond, Search Engine Watch Blog

Serkan Toto / CrunchGear - 85 days, 13 hours, 7 minutes ago
Fujitsu “K”: The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Is Now Even Faster - Japan took the top spot from China in the ranking for the world's fastest supercomputer back in June, when the International Supercomputing Conference said "K", a supercomputer made by Fujitsu, is outperforming China's Tianhe-1A.
TechCrunch, Forbes

James Johnson / The Inquisitr - 84 days, 21 hours ago
Southwest Passenger Hunts Down Stolen Laptop Using Craigslist - When Southwest airlines passenger Ambre Boroughs had her checked bag stolen from a Southwest airlines terminal she was told her laptop and the bags other contents were lost forever and the airline couldn’t do anything to help her.

In-Depth
PC World - 84 days, 4 hours, 34 minutes ago
Laptop Stolen from Checked Bag, Recovered on Craigslist - Ambre Boroughs made a mistake when she checked her laptop bag. Luckily, her Craigslist detective work quickly recovered it.


Seattle Times - 85 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes ago
Starbucks profit climbs 29 percent; dividend boosted - Starbucks' profit climbed nearly 29 percent to $358.5 million in the fourth quarter, on revenue that grew 7 percent to $3 billion. The company said it will raise its dividend from 13 cents to 17 cents a share.
The Inquisitr

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo - 80 days, 11 hours, 46 minutes ago
School to Change Its Name to Steve Jobs - Move on Lenin. Steve Jobs is in town. The town of Plovdiv, the second largest city of Bulgaria.
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AppleInsider - 93 days, 5 hours, 53 minutes ago
New Steve Jobs documentary to include never before seen interview - A new documentary focusing on the life of Steve Jobs and featuring a never before seen interview with the Apple co-founder will air next week on PBS.
Mashable!, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors.com

Electronista - 92 days, 3 hours, 19 minutes ago
AMD improves profit in summer results - AMD has announced its third-quarter financials, posting a net income of $97 million from total revenues reaching $1.69 billion.
ZDNet Blogs, The Register, TheStreet.com, MarketWatch

MediaPost - 436 days, 5 hours, 35 minutes ago
Online Media Daily: IAB: Best Quarter Ever - Recording the highest quarterly result ever, domestic online ad revenues hit $6.4 billion in the third quarter of the year, according to new data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
TechCrunch, Yahoo! News (Wire Services)

Kate Morris / Search Engine Journal - 422 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes ago
Where ‘o Where did my AdWords Reports Go? - It’s finally happened, the reports center is gone in AdWords and we are all reeling in horror right? Oh, Halloween was last weekend. Never mind.

MediaPost - 431 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes ago
Online Media Daily: Mpire Poised To Announce Partnership With AOL's ADTECH - Ad verification and optimization technology provider Mpire on Monday is expected to announced a partnership with AOL Advertising's ad-serving platform ADTECH.

TheStreet.com - 105 days, 14 hours, 48 minutes ago
Yahoo! Has Two Choices: Merger or Sale - NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's reported meeting with top shareholders to push the idea of a merger with Yahoo! begs the question of whether it's the best option for Yahoo!, which is undergoing a review of ways to unlock...
VentureBeat, TheStreet.com: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance

CNNMoney.com - 100 days, 9 hours, 16 minutes ago
Yahoo: Staying alive - FORTUNE -- Apple's (AAPL) shares rose on Wednesday afternoon, but they had been down for most of the day because the company's 54 percent rise in fourth-quarter profits didn't meet analyst expectations.

Tom Krazit / paidContent.org - 101 days, 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Microsoft's Ballmer: 'Lucky' To Not Own Yahoo, Nokia WP7 Devices Next Week - Steve Ballmer knows he dodged a bullet. Not only did the global market collapse just after Yahoo’s Jerry Yang turned down a $44 billion offer from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) for his company, but Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)...

Search Engine Land / Search Engine Land - 87 days, 9 hours, 35 minutes ago
See Who’s Speaking at SMX Social Media Marketing – Rates Increase Next Week, Register Now! -
Search Engine Land

Christina Bonnington / Wired Top Stories - 86 days, 8 hours, 16 minutes ago
Gmail for iOS: Now You See It, Now You Don't -

Sam Biddle / Gizmodo - 87 days, 10 hours, 34 minutes ago
Here's What's Beautiful and Better About the New Gmail - Gmail's new redesign is a lot more than just really really grey—it's pared down, functionally superior, and will probably spark a lot of shocked whining.

Jeremy Muncy / WebProBlog - 84 days, 8 hours, 2 minutes ago
Can the Republicans Match the Democrats’ Social Media Prowess in 2012? - The 2012 Presidential election is fast approaching. It’ll be interesting to see how much more of a role social media will play in the election, compared to that of 2008. While at the Blogworld Expo in L.A.
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InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 92 days, 10 hours, 22 minutes ago
Hiring App's Secret Sauce: Social Media Bragging - Unrabble candidate screening system asks applicants to deconstruct their resumes into achievements, backed up by social media references.
Yahoo! News (Wire Services)

Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 93 days, 23 hours, 34 minutes ago
China vows stricter controls on social media - Reuters - China will intensify controls of online social media and instant messaging tools, the ruling Communist Party said in an agenda-setting document that marks the government's highest-level reaction so far to the explosive growth of...
Yahoo! News (Wire Services)

Chris Crum / WebProNews - 102 days, 8 hours, 27 minutes ago
Sesame Street YouTube Channel Hacked, Showed Porn For 20 Minutes - It was a big deal when Sesame Street came to YouTube (it came to Hulu and iTunes at the same time). These online channels provide worldwide access for children everywhere to enjoy Sesame Street content that many of us grown-ups …...
San Jose Mercury News, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs, SiliconValley.com, CNET News.com, WebProBlog

Seattle Times - 101 days, 8 hours, 47 minutes ago
Viacom to NY court: Scrap YouTube copyright ruling - Viacom claims in a New York federal court appeal that YouTube allows - and even welcomes - "rampant copyright infringement."
Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), CNET News.com, AdWeek

Chris Crum / WebProNews - 93 days, 6 hours, 34 minutes ago
Porn, Halloween & StumbleUpon - Today’s infographic round-up features porn, Halloween, and StumbleUpon. What more do you want? Don’t worry, it’s not actual porn. View more daily infographic round-ups here. Search Engine Journal looks at Porn vs.
WebProBlog