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Chrome comes to Android phones, tablets

Wed, 2012-02-08 09:36 - By

Announcement, Digital Media, Electronics & Technology, Media, Android, CNN, Google Chrome, Sundar Pichai

Google has launched a beta version of Chrome for Android smartphones and tablets. . "Our goal was to get all of Chrome onto Android,"said Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Google Chrome. The computer browser was launched in 2008, when Google decided to take on Microsoft, Mozilla by launching its own internet browser. Since then, Chrome has increased its browser market share. It recently surpassed Firefox and has become a popular alternative to the dominant Internet Explorer.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal explains Twitter investment

Sun, 2012-01-29 07:42 - By

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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, surprised many by announcing a $300 million investment in Twitter, and has recently explained his decision to invest in the micro-blogging site. “Kingdom Holding is not new at all to the internet and tech arena,” he said in an interview with CNN. “We were the first to invest in Apple computers … the first to invest in Amazon and eBay.”

In the interview, Prince Alwaleed denied that the Twitter deal was politically motivated. “It was a pure financial investment with economic objectives,” he said. “Politics has no ingredients whatsoever in that investment … the secure economic financial investment with expected huge returns to our company Kingdom Holding.”

Video: Communication on Top to hold heated debate on 'Privacy vs. Publicity in the era of transparency'

Fri, 2012-01-27 12:22 - By

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Digital Media, Events, Media Business, Media, 42West, ABC News, Allen Mayer, CNN, Communication on Top, M3 Communications Group, Maxim Behari

On the 9th of February in Davos, the Communication on Top forum will be featuring a heated debate on "Privacy vs. Publicity in the era of transparency" between Allan Mayer Principal Partner and Head of the Strategic Communications Division at 42West, described as “a master in disaster”, and “the man to call if you’re a star facing a scandal”, who will face Maxim Behar, recently appointed as Chairman of Hill + Knowlton Strategies' office in the Czech Republic, and remains CEO & Chairman of the Board of M3 Communications Group.

The forum will be streamed live on February 9, 2012, from 10:00 am till 11:00 am - Swiss time.

Twitter censorship begins, by agreeing to delete posts if countries request it

Fri, 2012-01-27 07:59 - By

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Announcement, Digital Media, Media, Censorship, CNN, Internet Censored, social network, Twitter

Online social networking site Twitter said on Thursday that it will begin deleting users' tweets in countries that require it -- but it will still keep those deleted tweets visible to the rest of the world. Until now, the only way Twitter could comply with countries' limits was to remove the content globally.

Twitter said it will now delete tweets only "reactively" and on a case-by-case basis and will let the affected user know why the content is being withheld.

Facebook debuts 'sponsored story'

Tue, 2011-11-22 15:36 - By

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Facebook has revealed its new feature, the 'sponsored story', after it has been tested on a trial basis. The test version of the ads started appearing on the Facebook ticker in September, and are considered to be a very efficient form of advertising. Sponsored stories will now appear on the screen based on keywords of the posts surrounding it. "We recently made some changes to Facebook that help surface more engaging content, whether paid or organic, to people using Facebook," said Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes via CNN.

CNN Abu Dhabi set to launch ‘Global Exchange’ as part of extending its programming portfolio

Tue, 2011-11-01 09:39 - By

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Announcement, Broadcasting News, Content Business, Media Business, Media, CNN, CNN Abu Dhabi, Dubai Chronicle, Global Exchange

CNN Abu Dhabi has recently announced its expanded business programming portfolio with the launch of ‘Global Exchange’, an hour-long weekday focus on the emerging markets and how they are framing the new world order. The show will be broadcasted live from Abu Dhabi.

The show, which is set to launch on November 7th, 2011, will have a dedicated webpage featuring latest facts and figures from emerging markets, in addition to expert analysis from contributors and presenters.

The Facebook prototype, FaceMash.com, up for auction

Sun, 2011-10-16 15:54 - By

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FaceMash.com, the URL for the Facebook prototype Mark Zuckerberg built in his Harvard dorm room one October night in 2003, is now up for auction. The domain is currently listed for $8,000 and has attracted few bids.

The site attracts approximately 600 visitors per month, the auctioneer claims, though since the release of the movie "The Social Network," which mentions FaceMash, the site has received more than 1,000 hits per day.

BlackBerry service blackout leaves millions of customers across Europe, Middle East and Africa cut off for hours

Mon, 2011-10-10 21:53 - By

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Digital Media, Media Business, Media, BBM, Blackberry, CNN, Research In Motion, RIM, Twitter

Millions of BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been affected by the continuing Blackberry outage, a major service blackout that left dozens of countries without BBM, email, and web access. According to CNN, Research in Motion is looking into the issue and will bring an update to its customers soon.

Twitter users were outraged, with 'My BlackBerry' becoming a trending topic.

Users are currently still experiencing problems - and BlackBerry has yet to say what time scale a resolution can be expected.

Twitter launches photo-sharing tool, enables users to search for top-ranked images and videos

Thu, 2011-08-11 09:44 - By

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Digital Media, Media Business, Media, apple, CNN, Noah Everett, Photobucket, Twitpic, Twitter, yfrog

Twitter is now offering its own in-house photo sharing tool, setting of an alarm to developers of third-party photo apps like Twitpic and yfrog. The feature first began trickling out to users after it was introduced in June. Twitter said this week that it has been made available to everyone on the site.

When a user clicks in the "What's Happening?" box, a camera icon now appears at the bottom. The user can click it to add an image to the tweet. Twitter's photo-sharing is powered by Photobucket, which will host all uploaded images.

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Number of tweets tripled in past year

Wed, 2011-07-06 07:49 - By

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Naysayers still dismiss Twitter as a platform for people who post self-promotional links or trivial details about their daily lives -- this tuna sandwich is tasty! --- but there's no denying its growth.As we reach the halfway point of 2011, users of the microblogging service now post 200 million tweets a day, Twitter announced in a blog post Thursday.

That's up from 65 million tweets a day a year ago.Even in little 140-character bites, that's a lot of verbiage. Twitter offers some context on this: Assuming the average tweet is 25 words, that means that "every day, the world writes the equivalent of a 10 million-page book" -- or 8,163 copies of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel "War and Peace."