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Twitter Acquires Social Startup Spindle
— Twitter has acquired Spindle, a social startup focused on the location and check-in space, and discovering local places of interest nearby. — “We've spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: 'What's happening nearby right now?'”
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Viacom joins Twitter Amplify program to pump up second-screen volume (and insert more ads)
— Movie and TV giant Viacom hopped on the Twitter Amplify program to pump up the second-screen volume, starting with its 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on August 25.
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Apple testing deep LinkedIn integration for iOS 7
— Further bolstering the presence of third-party social networks in iOS, Apple is testing deep LinkedIn integration for the upcoming release of iOS 7, according to code-based references found inside of the first beta of iOS 7.
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Twitter's Geography: Visualized and Explained
— Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo has called the popular microblogging service “the pulse of the planet.” With a little less than eight percent of the world's population on Twitter, that pulse has room to grow. Nevertheless, recent big data research …
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Square co-founder Tristan O'Tierney exits the company after 4.5 years, has no immediate plans
— Square co-founder Tristan O'Tierney has left the US mobile payments company after more than four years there. — O'Tierney announced his departure on Friday - via Twitter …
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Escape from PRISM: how Twitter defies government data-sharing
— The company has a reputation for fighting back against government information requests. But how long can it hold out? — When the list of prominent internet companies participating in a semi-secret government surveillance …
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Twitter launches #FollowMe: highlight reels based on tweets, photos and Vines
— It's common for Twitter regulars to get a stream of new followers, but it's not always clear why they should follow back — how do you summarize a person's post history in a few seconds?
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Twitter opens up its analytics platform, lets everyone review the performance of their tweets for free
— Twitter has quietly opened up its various analytics tools to the public, giving everyone access to in-depth data about the people and brands who follow them, as well as the performance of their most recent tweets.
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Twitter must disclose authors of anti-Semitic tweets, French appeals court rules
— Government says adhering to French law is “not optional” for social media site — A French court this week ordered Twitter to disclose the names of users accused of posting racist and anti-Semitic tweets …
Featured Startup on Windows 8 - Ademptio — Face it. You love coding. Or, you hate coding. — For those who really do love it, and for those who find that some of their best ideas happen when they are doing other things …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.