Facebook wants to see the relationship between its site and live TV content grow even more interconnected. The idea of the "second screen" where people engage with live TV events via companion social networking tools seemed to be the talk of the town several years ago when marketing professionals were eyeing the seemingly limitless future of social media. Fast forward a bit and… Read More
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is out with a new national television ad that includes a recent clip of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy that Democrats have seized on to argue that the Select Committee on Benghazi is politically driven.
"The Republicans finally admit it," a ...
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Nobel prize in medicine awarded to three scientists for work on parastic diseases.
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Code42, the Minneapolis-based developers of the Crashplan enterprise backup tool, announced a massive $85 million round today. Code42 doesn't do them small. It has had only one previous round for $52.5 million at the beginning of 2012. The company could have gotten more if it wanted it, according to CEO Joe Payne. "This was the amount of money we needed for the next stage of… Read More 
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YUMA, Ariz. (AP) - Border Patrol agents in southwestern Arizona have arrested 17 suspected drug smugglers, 15 people posing as legal U.S. residents and seized nearly 500 pounds of marijuana.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say 15 people posing as legal residents were arrested at the Wellton Station checkpoint ...
As part of Internet.org, its initiative to bring billions of people around the world online, Facebook will partner with Eutelsat to launch a new satellite that will provide Internet access to parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. Internet.org's network infrastructure already includes drones and a laser communication system that are now undergoing lab tests, but this is its first project to… Read More 
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New Hampshire Democrat Maggie Hassan opened her campaign for the U.S. Senate by announcing her support for the nuclear deal with Iran.
The post NH Democrat's First Move as Senate Candidate: Endorse Iran Deal appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
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The European Court of Justice has today declared invalid the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement that has governed data flows from European users of U.S. cloud services to the U.S. for processing. "The Court of Justice declares that the Commission's U.S. Safe Harbour Decision is invalid," the ECJ said in a statement today, reported by Reuters. Some 4,000+ U.S. companies… Read More 
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BALMEDIE, Scotland (AP) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is well-known in this serene coastal section of Scotland, where shimmering golden sand dunes meet the ice-blue North Sea and people play on his golf course. He's known in the Himalayas, too, far from any sign with his name on it. ...
There's money in the beautiful game, even if it's not very evenly distributed. London-headquarted 90min, which describes itself as a 'contributor-driven' football media platform (meaning that it relies largely on unpaid, volunteer writers) has raised a further $15 million. Read More 
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Apple just unveiled six new 15-second Watch ads highlighting the instantaneous utility that the device offers. The ads feature color gradient backgrounds, pop tunes and beautiful people wearing Apple Watches. These ads are a bit of a departure from the previous more cinematic Watch ads that have focused largely on the emotional integration of the device into users' lives.… Read More 
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Apple confirmed today to Bloomberg that it has acquired deep learning company Perceptio, which uses artificial intelligence to classify photos on smartphones. Read More 
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