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  • Twitter beefs up security with two-step login Twitter beefs up security with two-step login

    NEW YORK - Aiming to tackle recent high-profile breaches, popular micro-blogging site Twitter is introducing an optional two-step login for users to beef up security. The new system would try to ensure "it's really you" when a user signs in to Twitter, which transmits some 400 million messages a day. The move follows recent attacks into the twitter accounts of news organisations' such as ...

  • Majority of teenagers now flocking to Twitter as Facebook enthusiasm wanes Study

    Teenagers are now turning to Twitter as their enthusiasm for Facebook is waning, a new study has found. The new report from the Pew Research Centre in America showed that teenagers "have waning enthusiasm" for Facebook, and increasingly seen as a burden. The report cited a number of reasons for the decreased enthusiasm in Facebook, including an 'increasing number of adults on the site', the ...

  • Penitent Warner fined 5750 dollars by CA for Twitter rant

    Australian Test cricketer David Warner has copped a 5750-dollar fine from Cricket Australia for his Twitter rant controversy. Warner had pleaded guilty to unbecoming behaviour after his expletive-laden criticism of senior News Ltd cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn for an article by Craddock exposing the sleazy nightlife and alleged corruption within the Indian Premier League ...

  • Ashford Hospitality Trust Announces Chairman and CEO Monty Bennett Now on Twitter

    DALLAS, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) today announced that Monty J. Bennett, Ashford's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has launched an official Twitter channel (@MBennettAshford) with the goal of increasing the quality and accessibility of the Company's communications. Mr. Bennett commented "Twitter is a convenient and timely way ...

  • Google Talks Back Conversational Search Available on New Version of Chrome

    Chrome this week. Today, I chatted with Google to ask it burning questions like, "How many children does Madonna have?" and "What's the meaning of life?" While Google doesn't quite have the latter down just yet, it was able to comment on the matter, at least superficially (try it and see). The "OK Google" search prompt we heard about at I/O isn't ...


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The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

Half a century after her initial claim to fame, Leni Riefenstahl remains a frustrating and fascinating enigma. Here is a woman who directed only six films during the 1930's and 40's, and yet she has been hailed as the greatest female director of all time, and deplored as a conspiring agent of Adolf Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich. This complex existence is the subject of writer/director Ray ... ...

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  • Twitter Has Marketers And Advertisers In Mind This Week

    launched a new Lead Generation card for mareters . Today, the company announced the availability of TV ad targeting, which has been developed through its acquisition of Bluefin Labs. Twitter says it’s designed to make it easier to extend and enhance TV ad campaigns. The offering is now available for Promoted Tweets in limited beta to select partners running national TV commercials in the ...

  • Facebook users share 1 billion stories through outside apps

    MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook highlighted its developer platform on Thursday, throwing out some big numbers around how third-party apps benefit from connecting to users through the social network. The social network opened up its platform to independent developers six years ago Friday, Director of Product Manager Doug Purdy told journalists today at a press conference at Facebook's ...

  • Facebook is the New Religion Ashton Kutcher Says

    IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) - Internet communities are more trustworthy than some big corporations, but mobile is proving a hard nut to crack even for the best of them, actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher told CTIA Wireless Thursday. "Facebook is the new religion," Kutcher said. "It's a deeper trust bond that I have with someone." Mass religions ...

  • Yahoos design chief Parsey to depart

    Tim Parsey, Yahoo Inc.'s SVP of user experience design, will be leaving his position, according to AllThingsD. Parsey's work as Yahoo's design chief can be seen in the major redesigns of several of the company's products, including the homepage, Flickr, and email, among others. There's no telling what his next stop will be, but it may be seen as a significant loss to Yahoo. ...

  • Pandora Media loses $28.6 million in first quarter

    Pandora Media Inc. lost $28.6 million in the April quarter, pushing its accumulated deficit -- that's how much money it has lost or written off since it started -- to $168.1 million. The Oakland company (NYSE: P) lost $20.2 million a year ago in the first quarter. Sales rose to $125.5 million in the quarter, up from $80.8 million a year ago, with strong gains in both advertising sales and ...

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