New mom, actress, and entrepreneur Jessica Alba has received $27 million in funding from three likely investment firms to grow baby products startup The Honest Company. Based on their track [...]
Your next #Tweet could be worth $$ through AmEx
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March 8, 2012, 1:54 PM
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Tweeting just became a business transaction. American Express has joined forces with the Twitter social network to offer a new service that offers exclusive store credits and savings for card [...]
USDA tries Twitter to bring consumers state-specific food recalls
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March 7, 2012, 4:29 PM
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Last month I wrote about how consumers can get “recall fatigue” when bombarded with food recall notices, which happened in late 2011 when the US had a record number of recalls. [...]
Battles over employee Twitter account ownership emerge
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January 4, 2012, 8:42 AM
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Companies are increasingly incorporating social media outlets such as Twitter into their marketing efforts. A common strategy is to assign a Twitter user name and password to an employee, who posts messages [...]
Science taps social media
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October 4, 2011, 1:32 PM
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At first blush, science and Twitter seem about as odd a couple as Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison. However, as researchers at Cornell University have recently learned, much can be discovered about [...]
Cutting government waste through social media
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July 14, 2011, 8:35 AM
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1759. A great year in American history? Maybe. It is also the number of .gov domains controlled by the executive branch of the federal government which the White House wants to streamline with the help of public input via social media.
Twitter lures $7 billion valuation
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July 6, 2011, 8:10 AM
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The social networking service that keeps the world at 140 characters or less has doubled its valuation in seven months. Twitter is now worth $7 billion, according to The Wall [...]
Rumors of a tech bubble shouldn’t be blowing up
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May 26, 2011, 10:07 AM
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There’s been lots of talk about a possible tech bubble happening in the US capital markets, just because last week LinkedIn ended up raising a lot more money than they [...]
Zynga IPO rumor mill shifts into high gear
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May 25, 2011, 3:03 PM
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Could Zynga — creator of Mafia Wars, FarmVille, and other social games — follow on the footsteps of LinkedIn and be the latest social media company to file an IPO? [...]
Mobile card readers revolutionize the checkout counter
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May 25, 2011, 1:37 PM
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Buying a pork slider from a food trailer, or a silk-screened T-shirt at a craft fair is a lot easier these days. Thanks to new mobile card readers, customers don’t have to hit up the ATM before [...]
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