The changing face of ‘The Hindu’ - Corporate News - livemint.com

The changing face of ‘The Hindu’ - Corporate News - livemint.com: " As a journalist who has covered conflicts out of Afghanistan and the erstwhile Yugoslavia, Siddharth Varadarajan is unruffled by his latest warzone."

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Happy Birthday, Twitter! A Look Back at Noteworthy Tweets - Speakeasy - WSJ

Happy Birthday, Twitter! A Look Back at Noteworthy Tweets - Speakeasy - WSJ: "Happy Birthday, Twitter!

It’s been six years since Twitter founder Jack Dorsey posted his first tweet to microblogging site, paving the way for what has quickly become a cultural phenomenon.

“Just setting up my twttr,” he said."

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The other voices - Hindustan Times

The other voices - Hindustan Times: "Long, long ago in a year far, far away, all of India stopped everything it was doing on a Sunday morning and watched a Ramanand Sagar TV serial on Doordarshan with extremely bad special effects. And then listened to Lotika Ratnam, Komal GB Singh and Salma Sultan for relief."

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Nearly half the world will become web users by 2016

Nearly half the world will become web users by 2016: "The Internet economy of the world is projected to increase dramatically by 2016 providing companies and countries a vital source of growth, a report has said.
The biggest driver is the unprecedented increase in the number of users around the globe from 1.9 billion in 2010 to a projected 3 billion in 2016, about 45 per cent of the world's population."

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Twitter To Sell Your Old Tweets - Forbes

Twitter To Sell Your Old Tweets - Forbes: "Remember that time you told @yourfriends that you were eating a delicious #sandwich? Pretty soon marketing companies could be analyzing that data for valuable information about future ways to target pastrami sales to your demographic.

Privacy advocates were up in arms when Twitter revealed that it would be selling two years of archived tweets to UK-based Datasift to, well, sift through, reports the Mail Online."

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Facebook Marketing Boom Fuels Social-Advertising Startup Demand - Bloomberg

Facebook Marketing Boom Fuels Social-Advertising Startup Demand - Bloomberg: "Entrepreneur Michael Lazerow parlayed booming demand for advertising on Facebook Inc. -- and reassurances from its operating chief, Sheryl Sandberg -- into a business that generates almost $100 million a year in sales."

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