Newark Mayor Cory Booker Bets Tweeter That He Can Eat Healthy Off Food Stamps For A MONTH
Mayor Cory Booker is known for his social media savvy, having helped direct emergency services in Newark, New Jersey to stranded citizens during snowstorms and field questions during Hurricane Sandy. Now he’s taking the talk offline as he bet a Twitter trash-talker that he could live healthfully on food stamps for a month. The Democratic [...]
Busted! Oprah Winfrey Tweets Her Love For Microsoft’s Surface… From An iPad
November 20, 2012 4 Comments
Oprah Winfrey has been vocal about her love for Microsoft’s new Surface tablet. Even claiming that it was one of her favorite things. But that didn’t stop the chat show queen sending a tweet claiming she’d bought 12 as Christmas gifts – via the Twitter app on her iPad. Microsoft has spent $1.5billion and enlisted [...]
Continue reading …Warning: Anything You Say on Facebook Can Be Used Against You in the Court of Law
August 19, 2012 14 Comments
Even if you’re speaking in private, you might want to think carefully about what you say on Facebook. A new court ruling has determined that anything you say or do on the social network can be used against you in the court of law. The courts have just ruled that if you share something on [...]
Continue reading …Facebook Investors Dump the Stock on the Market, Leading to an All-Time Low
August 17, 2012 1 Comment
Facebook stock has been dropping faster than Chad Johnson’s football career. The company’s shares took another painful decline this week as the ban on selling was lifted on early investors in the company. The shares are now about 50% of what they were when the company first went public, leading to mass panic among those [...]
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A new experimental airplane may one day change how we travel forever. The X-51A WaveRider plane is going to make an historic test flight of just 300 seconds this week, and if successful, could open up a plethora of new possibilities. The plane could fly from New York to Los Angeles in just 46 minutes, [...]
Continue reading …Lawrence Watkins: Three-Time Olympian and Business Exec Gives Tips on High Achievement
August 14, 2012 No Comment
by Lawrence Watkins, TheGrio.com “There are always going to be adversity and challenges in your life. The most important things that you can do are stay positive, believe in yourself, and never, ever give up.” This was the main piece of advice that three-time Olympic fencer, Keeth Smart, gave during his Grio interview. This sounds like [...]
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A brave new world appears to be coming, as private corporations are now starting to go head-first into the space travel game. SpaceX, a company run by Elon Musk, is one of many corporations that see riches in space travel. Now that NASA has been forced to let go of its monopoly on outer space, [...]
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Google has agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission $22.5 million for spying on users of the Safari browser. The company was secretly tracking millions of web users in order to understand their browsing behavior, search tendencies and shopping habits. The company was punished for breaking through the safeguards put in place by Apple and [...]
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Google is planning to connect your Internet searches with your Gmail account. In order to make things more efficient for the user, your Gmail content will be searched, in addition to the Internet when it comes to finding the best answer to your question or search query. For example, if you search for “football,” anything [...]
Continue reading …Have Google and Oracle Paid Off Bloggers for their Opinions? A Judge Wants to Know
August 9, 2012 3 Comments
A judge has ruled that Oracle and Google must reveal the names of bloggers and reporters that they’ve paid. The demand was made in the US in response to an intellectual property case being fought out in court. The judge says that he is “concerned” about financial influence of information that is ultimately printed out [...]
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