Residents of the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming took to the streets Thursday for a protest against the construction of a state-run chemical and petroleum refinery they say will harm the environment.
Groups of shouting protesters waved flowers, wore symbolic face masks and carried banners warning of the dangers of paraxylene, a chemical [...]
Residents of the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming took to the streets Thursday for a protest against the construction of a state-run chemical and petroleum refinery they say will harm the environment.
Groups of shouting protesters waved flowers, wore symbolic face masks and carried banners warning of the dangers of paraxylene, a chemical [...]
Residents of the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming took to the streets Thursday for a protest against the construction of a state-run chemical and petroleum refinery they say will harm the environment.
Groups of shouting protesters waved flowers, wore symbolic face masks and carried banners warning of the dangers of paraxylene, a chemical [...]
(CNN) — Google Maps are getting personal. The next version of the widely used maps tool, previewed on Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, will soon have a different look and some splashy new features including displays of real-time accidents and personalized recommendations.
The new [...]
(CNN) — Google Maps are getting personal. The next version of the widely used maps tool, previewed on Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, will soon have a different look and some splashy new features including displays of real-time accidents and personalized recommendations.
The new [...]
(CNN) — Google Maps are getting personal. The next version of the widely used maps tool, previewed on Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, will soon have a different look and some splashy new features including displays of real-time accidents and personalized recommendations.
The new [...]
Family tech — Web services and applications for parents and kids — is a new market driven largely by mothers creating technology to solve problems that have plagued parents for decades, such as how to find a baby sitter, choose the right summer camp, and capture the memories of their child’s first year.
Family tech [...]
Family tech — Web services and applications for parents and kids — is a new market driven largely by mothers creating technology to solve problems that have plagued parents for decades, such as how to find a baby sitter, choose the right summer camp, and capture the memories of their child’s first year.
Family tech [...]
Family tech — Web services and applications for parents and kids — is a new market driven largely by mothers creating technology to solve problems that have plagued parents for decades, such as how to find a baby sitter, choose the right summer camp, and capture the memories of their child’s first year.
Family tech [...]
It’s the second day at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco. While the other members of the HuffPost tech team on site have been pursuing sessions on Android and Google Glass, I’ve been focused on something much more mundane: the World Wide Web.
The web is 20 years old and we take it for granted [...]
It’s the second day at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco. While the other members of the HuffPost tech team on site have been pursuing sessions on Android and Google Glass, I’ve been focused on something much more mundane: the World Wide Web.
The web is 20 years old and we take it for granted [...]
It’s the second day at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco. While the other members of the HuffPost tech team on site have been pursuing sessions on Android and Google Glass, I’ve been focused on something much more mundane: the World Wide Web.
The web is 20 years old and we take it for granted [...]
Time for the Grow Your Audience With Google+ session at Google I/O 2013.
We get underway at 3:30 pm PT to hear what tips Google+ product marketing manager Amy Walgenbach has to share.
Live blogging is below:
Related Topics: Channel: Social Media [...]
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Sina Corp is hugely popular in China, attracting more than 500 million users
Sina Corp, which runs China’s biggest micro-blogging service, saw losses narrow in the first three months of the year as revenues rose.
The net loss was [...]
(CNN) — In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league of social media, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to be closing in on a $1 billion acquisition deal with David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr.
Details of the talks leaked [...]
Social networks, particularly Twitter, should not take over peoples’ lives, the head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has said.
“Those who resort to social networks and microblogs, especially Twitter, as their core life component, have lost their lives and their afterlife,” Abdul Lateef Al-Asheikh was quoted [...]
Mao Yushi, the 84-year-old economist who last year won the Cato Institute’s Milton Freedom Prize for Advancing Liberty, is a prominent voice on one side of China’s ideological gulf — his free-market advocacy and progressive political stance has made him a spokesman representing the polar [...]
In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league of social media, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to be closing in on a $1 billion acquisition deal with David Karp, the CEO of New York-based Tumblr.
Details of the talks leaked out earlier Thursday via AllThingsD, a site which [...]
Google Chrome programmer Rick Byers speaking at Google I/O.
(Credit:
Stephen Shankland/CNET)
SAN FRANCISCO — Google would like to endow Chrome with Microsoft’s technology for letting Web applications deal with input from mice, pens, and touch screens.
Developers of the Google browser said at the [...]
Editor’s Note:
Are you up on what the hundreds of millions of Chinese netizens are talking about? Take a moment and get the rundown of what’s hot, what’s trending, and what’s drawing the most buzz on the Chinese blogosphere.
Jolie’s breast bravery
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie stated Tuesday in an article for [...]
The court also put off the trial of seven other Kuwaitis, including former lawmaker Waleed Al Tabtabai, on charges of participating in an illegal rally, resisting instructions and clashing with the police to June 12.
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Liu Tienan was removed from his official posts on Tuesday. Zhang Ke / for China Daily
Luo Changping used his Weibo to [...]
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Liu Tienan was removed from his official posts on Tuesday. Zhang Ke / for China Daily
Luo Changping used his Weibo to [...]
In its latest effort to muzzle dissent and steer public opinion, the Chinese government has started to shut or freeze microblogs written by prominent liberals on the Twitter-style Weibo, which has 368 million users.
Among those whose microblog accounts have been affected are prominent liberal intellectuals, while there has also been harassment of [...]
In its latest effort to muzzle dissent and steer public opinion, the Chinese government has started to shut or freeze microblogs written by prominent liberals on the Twitter-style Weibo, which has 368 million users.
Among those whose microblog accounts have been affected are prominent liberal intellectuals, while there has also been harassment of [...]
GENEVA, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –
High-Tech Bridge SA, a leading Swiss information security (https://www.htbridge.com/pages/services/) company recognized as one of the market leaders and best service providers in the ethical [...]
GENEVA, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –
High-Tech Bridge SA, a leading Swiss information security (https://www.htbridge.com/pages/services/) company recognized as one of the market leaders and best service providers in the ethical [...]
Georgia Tech has announced a partnership with Web-learning startup Udacity that sees the two organizations team up to offer its first online master of science degree, which will run as an entirely Internet-based program.
The degree is for computer science, and ATT is also onboard to help cover costs and to provide guidance on the courses and degree [...]
Georgia Tech has announced a partnership with Web-learning startup Udacity that sees the two organizations team up to offer its first online master of science degree, which will run as an entirely Internet-based program.
The degree is for computer science, and ATT is also onboard to help cover costs and to provide guidance on the courses and degree [...]
Soon, nearly half of all emails will be consumed on mobile devices, where the methods used to read them are widely varied. Having a responsive design for your email, as well as the time and day you send, all has a big impact on open and success rates. And, don’t forget that catchy subject line!
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Soon, nearly half of all emails will be consumed on mobile devices, where the methods used to read them are widely varied. Having a responsive design for your email, as well as the time and day you send, all has a big impact on open and success rates. And, don’t forget that catchy subject line!
[...]
More than one in three large social media advertisers are not satisfied with their efforts from both paid and organic social media strategies. Those marketers who are satisfied with their social efforts are happiest with the results they achieve from paid social advertising than from using organic tactics alone.
These [...]
More than one in three large social media advertisers are not satisfied with their efforts from both paid and organic social media strategies. Those marketers who are satisfied with their social efforts are happiest with the results they achieve from paid social advertising than from using organic tactics alone.
These [...]
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More people are using social media to tackle corrupt officials, as Cui Jia and Cao Yin report.
As one of the first people in China to attempt to expose corrupt officials via micro blogs, Zhou Wenbin [...]
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More people are using social media to tackle corrupt officials, as Cui Jia and Cao Yin report.
As one of the first people in China to attempt to expose corrupt officials via micro blogs, Zhou Wenbin [...]
By JESSICA E. LESSIN
Bloomberg News
Google, which develops Chrome, has developed technologies that can be used for voice-recognition browsing.
Mobile phones, wearable devices and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend with implications for how [...]
By JESSICA E. LESSIN
Bloomberg News
Google, which develops Chrome, has developed technologies that can be used for voice-recognition browsing.
Mobile phones, wearable devices and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend with implications for how [...]
Today Walmart’s @WalmartLabs announced that it has acquired two companies, adding their capabilities to its technology team.
@WalmartLabs acquired OneOps, in hopes of boosting its Platform as a Service capabilities, and its private cloud efforts. Also acquired is Tasty Labs, a software development firm from Mountain View. The reasoning behind the two small [...]
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