Posted under U.S. on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The Pentagon hosted its first Twitter town hall Monday with Pentagon Press Secretary George Little. Participants asked questions on a number of topics ranging from energy security to Don't Ask Don't Tell benefits.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 2:30 pm
ContributorNetwork - The Lamar County, Georgia, sheriff's department reported late Thursday that two teen girls reported missing Wednesday morning have been found safe. The FBI and federal marshals recovered the teens in Tennessee after a harrowing joyride that turned into a kidnapping. ABC Otus News said Amber Henry, 16, and Kirsten Kamradt, 14, left home in the pre-dawn hours of the morning Wednesday to go for a ride with men they'd met through a social networking site. The men took the girls across state lines against their will, the report said.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 12:59 pm
AP - In a story sent Feb. 2 on Facebook's upcoming stock offering, The Associated Press, relying on information supplied by Nasdaq, reported erroneously that Nasdaq charged no separate fee to companies for listing on the exchange. Nasdaq charges an initial fee as well as an annual fee.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 12:28 pm
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The Facebook IPO is likely going to result in the social media giant ending up with a market value in the $75 to $100 billion range, according to MSNBC.com.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 12:06 pm
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | It doesn't matter if an internet company goes public, like Facebook's big IPO announcement. Users are exploited to advertisers. This is the way of the business world. Ad dollars makes the world go around. Using or selling user information to businesses isn't anything new; it's been going on long before Facebook.
Posted under U.S. on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Reuters - A Wisconsin woman has been charged with theft over accusations she tried to profit from Facebook's much-anticipated plans to go public by selling fake stock in the social media giant, a criminal complaint showed on Thursday.
Posted under U.S. on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 2:11 pm
AP - When Facebook goes public in a few months, will its stock appear on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq? Depends what its billionaire founder prefers for a backdrop — a trading floor on Wall Street or towering video screens in Times Square.
Posted under U.S. on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 8:46 am
ContributorNetwork - The finance world began the day eagerly awaiting Facebook's filing of initial public offering (IPO) paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Posted under U.S. on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 2:50 pm
ContributorNetwork - It's always interesting when a teacher bumps into a student while shopping during school breaks or on the weekend. The reaction is always the same: students are a bit surprised that their teachers own t-shirts, use coupons for things like peanut butter, and, yes, have lives outside the classroom.
Posted under U.S. on Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at 8:06 am
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | There is little argument that Facebook is a valuable commodity with more than 800 million members across the globe, as reported by the USA Today. Rumors have been swirling about a Facebook IPO for a few years, and USA Today reports the rumors have intensified that Facebook will file the necessary paperwork as early as next week. The pending valuation for Facebook sits at a ridiculous $100 billion, which would make the company extremely overvalued.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Facebook could file IPO paperwork as early as next Wednesday, according to reports released today. The popular social media network has been talking about going public for some time now and they are currently looking at a deal that would value the site somewhere between $75 billion to $100 billion, says the Wall Street Journal.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 11:41 am
Reuters - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating the origins of a photo on an Arizona police officer's Facebook page that shows a group of armed youths posing in the desert with what appears to be a bullet-ridden image of President Barack Obama on a T-shirt.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 11:41 am
Reuters - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating the origins of a photo on an Arizona police officer's Facebook page that shows a group of armed youths posing in the desert with what appears to be a bullet-ridden image of President Barack Obama on a T-shirt.
Posted under U.S. on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
ContributorNetwork - On the question of students, teachers, and social networking, CNN's Schools of Thought blog posed this question on Jan. 20: Do you think there are more benefits or downsides to this kind of communication?
Posted under U.S. on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 11:56 am
ContributorNetwork - The National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency which states its purpose is "acting to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions," has filed a complaint against American Medical Response of Connecticut, which terminated an employee after she vented about another co-worker on Facebook.
Posted under U.S. on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
AP - If you like Apple's stock, you're going to love its suppliers.
Posted under U.S. on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 at 10:12 am
ContributorNetwork - The Carthage (Mo.) Police Department has apologized for a lewd photo accidentally posted to its public Facebook page. The Joplin Globe reports the photograph was allegedly live on the website for 5 seconds, yet at least one person saw it and reported it before it was taken down. The picture was a man's genitals and it appeared on the page midafternoon Monday.
Posted under U.S. on Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 at 6:15 pm
AP - A 3-year-old bear in Minnesota has given birth to two cubs before an Internet audience.
Posted under U.S. on Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at 4:24 pm
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | It boggles me that there are actually studies being conducted on the psychology of Facebook, but apparently there are. And what those studies say about those of us who are social networking via the internet are quite interesting.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, January 20th, 2012 at 10:56 am
ContributorNetwork - After a massive online protest that saw top 500 websites such as Wikipedia, Reddit, and Craigslist shut down for day, the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills have been tabled indefinitely in the Congress. The Protect IP Act (S.968, a rewrite of the failed 2010 Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) was scheduled for a vote next week in the Senate, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has stated that he was postponing the vote "in light of recent events", according to CNN. The House of Representatives has also held their version of the bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, or H.R.3261.IH). House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith stated that the House will "postpone consideration of the legislation until there is wider agreement on a solution." Both bills had widespread bipartisan support, but after key politicians withdrew their endorsement, the bills quickly withered on the Floor.
Posted under U.S. on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Reuters - Police investigating three murders arrested 43 feuding New York gang members on Thursday based on evidence collected from monitoring what the gang members were saying about the cases on Twitter and Facebook, authorities said.
Posted under U.S. on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
AP - A New Jersey legislator has apologized for a post on a social media site that referred to the Philadelphia Eagles as "gaybirds" and the Dallas Cowboys as "cowgirls."
Posted under U.S. on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
AP - The U.S. Supreme Court has passed up a set of cases for the online age — whether schools may censor students who are off-campus when they create online attacks against school officials and other students.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Reuters - The arrest of a Northern California high school teacher for sexual abuse of a 14-year-old male student has raised questions about the boundaries of behavior and whether schools should police social media contact between teachers and students, authorities said on Friday.
Posted under U.S. on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 1:03 pm
AP - In a Jan. 9 story about the indictment of a man accused of posting a photo on Facebook of his young daughter with her arms and legs bound and tape over her mouth, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the girl in the photo was also bound to a chair. She was not.
Posted under U.S. on Sunday, January 8th, 2012 at 2:45 am
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Posted under U.S. on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 at 8:58 am
AP - Eric Carvin, an AP Nerve Center news producer and former National Desk editor, has been named the organization's social media editor, based at headquarters in New York.
Posted under U.S. on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 at 5:25 am
AP - A Philadelphia woman has avoided prison after admitting she posted a Facebook offer of $1,000 for someone to kill her baby's father.
Posted under U.S. on Sunday, January 1st, 2012 at 12:27 pm
AP - Here's another reason for holdouts to join the social media site Facebook: It's a great place to find a kidney.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, December 30th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
AP - Justin Dillon's rock band was touring Eastern Europe when he met some college students who told him they were about to get work in the West. They were eager to begin what they were sure would be their new MTV-like lives.
Posted under U.S. on Thursday, December 29th, 2011 at 12:34 pm
AP - An Internet company has sued one of its former employees, saying the worker cost the company thousands of dollars in lost business when he took 17,000 Twitter followers with him when he left the firm.
Posted under U.S. on Thursday, December 29th, 2011 at 9:12 am
AP - An Internet company is suing a former employee, saying he left the firm and took his 17,000 Twitter followers with him.
Posted under U.S. on Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 at 9:27 am
AP - Utah police have filed charges against a man accused of holding his girlfriend and their 17-month-old son hostage for five days until rescuers were tipped off by her plea for help on Facebook.
Posted under U.S. on Monday, December 26th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
AP - A Utah woman used Facebook to seek help after she and her 17-month-old son were held hostage at a residence for nearly five days, police said.
Posted under U.S. on Monday, December 26th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
AP - Utah police say a woman used Facebook to get help after she and her 17-month-old son were held hostage at a residence for nearly five days.
Posted under U.S. on Sunday, December 25th, 2011 at 7:26 am
AP - For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.
Posted under U.S. on Saturday, December 24th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
AP - Santa's piling up more than presents this year. The big man's trackers at NORAD say Santa Claus also broke records this Christmas Eve.
Posted under U.S. on Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 at 12:26 am
AP - Santa already is piling up big numbers on social networking sites this season, so the volunteer Santa-trackers at NORAD are bracing for tens of thousands of calls and emails when their operations center goes live on Christmas Eve.
Posted under U.S. on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 at 9:43 pm
ContributorNetwork - In times of crisis, social media such as Youtube.com, Facebook.com, Linkedin.com and Twitter.com can help raise awareness, bridge communication gaps and gain support for relief efforts, such as those needed right now in disaster-ravaged Japan. There is a worldwide outpouring of support and many efforts are being made by social media to help people cope with the ongoing tragedies striking Japan in the last week.
Posted under U.S. on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 at 2:56 pm
AP - A Chicago man accused of binding his young daughter's hands, legs and mouth with tape and then posting a picture of what he'd done on Facebook was ordered held on $100,000 bond Wednesday.
Posted under U.S. on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 at 5:12 am
AP - A 21-year-old Chicago man faces abuse charges after he allegedly posted a photograph on Facebook that shows his daughter's hands, legs and mouth apparently bound with blue tape.
Posted under U.S. on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
AP - Chicago police say detectives are investigating a man who allegedly posted a photograph on Facebook that shows his daughter's hands, legs and mouth apparently bound with duct tape.
Posted under U.S. on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
AP - Chicago police say detectives are investigating a man who allegedly posted a photograph on Facebook that shows his daughter's hands, legs and mouth apparently bound with duct tape.
Posted under U.S. on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
AP - Chicago police say detectives are investigating a man who allegedly posted a photograph on Facebook that shows his daughter's hands, legs and mouth apparently bound with duct tape.
Posted under U.S. on Saturday, December 17th, 2011 at 10:24 am
AP - The text was about something innocuous: A request to go to the county fair. It set off a highway pileup that took two lives, injured dozens and left two school buses and a pickup truck in a crumpled heap.
Posted under U.S. on Friday, December 16th, 2011 at 3:57 pm
AP - A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Utah company's $1 billion federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
Posted under U.S. on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 10:03 am
AP - NPR is getting a $1.5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to boost web training and content at member stations nationwide.
Posted under U.S. on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 5:50 am
AP - A two-month trial is ending in a Utah company's $1 billion antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.
Posted under U.S. on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
AP - Facebook and its founder will try to have a man's lawsuit claiming part ownership of the $50 billion social networking website thrown out of court after securing proof the contract on which it's based is fake, a Facebook attorney said Tuesday.
Posted under U.S. on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
AP - Microsoft Corp. purposefully duped a Utah company into believing its writing application would be included in the Windows 95 rollout, then pulled the plug so Microsoft could gain market share with its own product, an attorney said Tuesday in closing arguments for a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against the software giant.