Sarkozy, Bruni kissing video on Facebook branded ‘nauseating’ by press
May 22nd, 2009 LONDON – French President Nicolas Sarkozy has come under attack from the press after he revamped his Facebook page by posting a video of him kissing his supermodel wife Carla Bruni. The video, which was shot this month during an informal interview between First Lady and competition winners from a women’s magazine, has been branded as “nauseating” by the press, reports Sky News.
UK’s oldest Twitter user is a 103yr old woman
May 15th, 2009 LONDON – While most ladies her age prefer to sit quietly, 103-year-old English lady Ivy Bean loves to Twitter, something that has made her the oldest user of the social networking site. Bean, a great grandmother, decided to join Twitter after she got bored of using Facebook, where she had made 4,800 friends.
Skeptics question French President Sarkozy’s Facebook post suggesting he saw Berlin Wall fall
November 9th, 2009 more imagesmore imagesSarkozy Berlin Wall claims raise questionsPARIS — Where was Nicolas Sarkozy when the Berlin Wall fell?The French president suggests — in a casual post on his Facebook page — that he was at Checkpoint Charlie, chipping away at the Cold War with a pickax alonside throngs of Berliners on Nov. 9, 1989. French journalists aren’t so sure.
Social networking sites can raise rights for publicity issues
June 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON – Social networking tools like Twitter might offer a platform for people to make new friends, but it can also raise a variety of legal issues concerning the right of publicity, says an intellectual property attorney. Citing the examples of Peyton Manning and La Russa incidents, Faber said Indianapolis Colts issued a statement on Colts.com that a Twitter user posing as Peyton Manning was not the ‘real’ Peyton.
Document service aims to make early fundraising rounds less expensive for entrepreneurs
March 1st, 2010 more imagesmore imagesmore imagesNew document service aims to lower startup costsSAN FRANCISCO — Raising money shouldn’t cost startups so much money. at least that’s the theory underlying the latest idea backed by former entrepreneurs-turned-venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
How to find interesting Twitter Lists using Listorious
December 5th, 2009 more imagesDo you know how to get the best of the Twitter lists ? With the new List feature Twitter allows all its users to curate the real time web. however, it’s a tough ask to dig-out the best list from the plethora of Twitter lists.
Accenture ends 6-year relationship with golf star; says no longer the ‘right representative’
December 13th, 2009 Accenture announces end to Tiger Woods sponsorshipGlobal consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture is ending its sponsorship of Tiger Woods, saying the golfer is “no longer the right representative” after the “circumstances of the last two weeks.”Accenture’s announcement Sunday marks the company’s first statement since allegations of Woods’ infidelity surfaced in recent weeks. The company is the second key sponsor of Woods to pull away.
Trim bonuses and regulate markets, France’s Sarkozy tells business leaders at Davos
January 27th, 2010 Sarkozy calls for tighter regulation at DavosDAVOS, Switzerland — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a broad riposte to free-market capitalism, told a room full of international bankers and CEOs on Wednesday just what they didn’t want to hear: Brace for bonus curbs, tighter banking regulations and new bookkeeping rules. it was a brazen posture for the World Economic Forum, a gathering of business and political elite at a Swiss ski resort that in many ways embodies the globalized economy.
NASA’s new Twitter strategy: Se Habla Espanol; Astro_Jose to tweet bilingually from space
July 2nd, 2009 NASA astronaut takes Twitter to space en EspanolWASHINGTON — NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He’ll tweet from space in Spanish and English.
After last week’s outage, Twitter is down briefly because of another attack
August 11th, 2009 another attack downs Twitter, briefly this timeNEW YORK — Twitter has suffered from another attack following one that left the site down for several hours last week. Tuesday’s outage was brief.
Twitter launches home page with a new look
July 29th, 2009 LONDON – Popular microblogging website Twitter has launched a new home page. The Internet phenomenon, which boasts of an estimated 55 million visitors each month, made changes to the page, that now includes a search facility and lists the 23 most popular “trending topics” “by the minute, day, and week”.
Twitter prodding users to update settings to create more ways for people to find each other
February 26th, 2010 Twitter wants users to update their personal infoSAN FRANCISCO — Twitter is prodding its users to update their personal settings to create more ways for people to connect on its communications service. The request will pop up when Twitter users log into their accounts.
Twitter outage clamps tweets, site says cause ‘unknown’
August 6th, 2009 Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause ‘unknown’NEW YORK — Twitter is down. for users of the short messaging site, this means no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.
Samajwadi Party demands higher price for sugarcane farmers
November 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW – Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav would lead a demonstration here Nov 15 to protest what he termed as “unfair” State Advised Price (SAP) fixed by the Mayawati government for sugarcane. “The price fixed by the state was lower than the input cost of the farmer,” he said.
Twitter to Launch Paid Business Accounts from 2010
November 24th, 2009 more imagesDon’t get angry corporate fellas! Twitter is still free if you want to use its services as you have had for the past years. rather, it is a good news that twitter is planning to add a special layer of access to the business people who would sign up for a paid account.