Virtual gift shopping may be next mobile frontier

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

On May 18, Facebook announced it had acquired mobile gift-giving app Karma. There was other Facebook news that day, but lost in the hullabaloo was the fact that the deal was the social network's second-largest acquisition to date. It tot ...
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Millions in global aid for Iraq sits unspent

Source: eTaiwan News

Outside the crumbling elementary school, goats feed on trash strewn across the front yard. Inside, the ceiling is rotting, toilets don't work and students scrunch hip-to-hip behind narrow desks. Millions of dollars in intern ...
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Mark Davis returning to DFW radio on KSKY

Source: Tampa Bay Online

John Peroyea, regional vice president of operations for KSKY owner Salem Communications Corp., said that the station will also rebrand itself as part of an aggressive move to raise its profile as a talk station in DFW. The station already airs several ...
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The Westside's Top Stories of the Week

Source: Venice Patch

Mostly cloudy with patchy fog in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs from near 70 at the beaches to near 80 inland. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon. A roundup of what made headlines in ...
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Canadian retailers rebel against cross-border shopping

Source: Montreal Gazette

The stakes in the battle over cross-border shopping, already a multi-billion-dollar business, are about to be raised when duty-free limits go up June 1. After years of watching Canadians line up to cross the border s ...
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Week in Review: Local Man Charged in LIRR Disability Scam, Lions Head to County Finals

Source: Westislip Patch

Partly sunny with isolated showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs around 80. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Update: New! Tune in to WPIX11 at 5 p.m. to see Patch's top stories from the tri-state area. A ...
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Bandwidth broker to light up dark nets

Source: The Register

A new global bandwidth exchange and trading platform targeting the growth in cloud based services and leveraging a global bandwidth glut has been launched by an Australian telecommunications executive. Globally launched earlier ...
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Lowest content denominator

Source: Bennington Banner

Monday May 28, 2012 -- plus several celebrity items -- were front-page news on the Times’ site. Recent Time and Newsweek covers constitute last gasps in the dying newsweekly business. Of greater concern, however, is that while these maga ...
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PHOTOS: Thrift Shop Turned Into ARF Designer Showhouse

Source: Easthampton Patch

Partly sunny with isolated showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Vera with her designing partner James Alan S ...
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