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High Tech security for Virginia Tech football games
Virginia Tech police are taking football security high tech.
Campus Police and the Department of Emergency Management are now using geospatial technology to track officers inside the stadium.
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Smart Phone safety; new software helps keep personal data personal
ReporterA local researcher has developed new technology that would impress even James Bond. It all centers around your smart phone and can help with everything from keeping your medical records private, to preventing your kids from sexting. Just how personal is...Tags: Software Industry, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Economy, Business and Finance, File Sharing, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Cowboy Chris rolls through the area for children's cancer awareness
ReporterHe's on a 3 thousand mile journey for children's cancer research, but he's not biking or running. He's on horseback. “If it was up to me, we’d still be on horseback,” says Chris Blethen. Travelling next to cars and trains, Blethen is...Tags: New York, Human Interest, Diseases and Illnesses, Facebook, Health
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Sardin finding footing with Terriers
Basketball has taken Tiffany Sardin from the playgrounds of Chicago all the way to Portugal as a professional. Now the journey has stopped in Vinton where the former UVA star is in her first year as the head girls coach at William Byrd. But while Sardin...Tags: Athletes, Human Interest, William Byrd, Portugal
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Yahoo's challenge to be building Tumblr's advertising business
SAN FRANCISCO — To punctuate his company's $1.1-billion purchase by Yahoo Inc., Tumblr co-founder and Chief Executive David Karp let loose in a blog post with a celebratory expletive. It was classic Karp, a 26-year-old high school dropout who...
Tags: Marketing, Advertising, Computer Networking and Internet, Computing and Information Technology Industry, AMC (tv network)
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FACTBOX-Yahoo's acquisitions: from Geocities to Tumblr
ReutersSAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc announced on Monday it would shell out $1.1 billion to buy blogging service Tumblr, in a bid to revitalize its brand and attract a younger generation of users. Yahoo has been criticized for making big...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Marissa Mayer, Online Advertising, Yahoo! Inc.
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Dollar firms as suspense builds, Asia shares dip
ReutersSINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar inched up against major currencies but stayed well off highs on Tuesday as investors cautiously traded expectations of whether Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will or will not hint at a sooner than expected...Tags: Julia Gillard, McDonald's, Lisle, Warren Buffett, New York Weather
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Is Yahoo's billion-dollar bet on synergy worth it?
When Google went public in 2004 for $85 a share, I wrote a column questioning such a high valuation for a company built on a math equation. Wasn't it inevitable that someone would come along with a better search algorithm? Google closed Monday at $908....
Tags: Marketing, Media Industry, Advertising, Skype, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Boynton to discuss televising city meetings
The Boynton Beach commission could soon be coming to a TV screen near you, if one commissioner gets his way. Commissioner David Merker, a former radio broadcaster, wants to televise the city's meetings. He mentioned it during his campaign, and he...
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Apple, Congreso EEUU discuten por impuestos antes de audiencia del martes
ReutersPor Patrick Temple-West y Poornima Gupta WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc ha mantenido miles de millones de dólares en ganancias en filiales irlandesas para pagar pocos o nada de impuestos a cualquier gobierno, utilizando una estructura...Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corporation, Tim Cook
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Yahoo's rise in Asia offsets risk from Tumblr bet
ReutersBy Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging service Tumblr will be a test of her ability to revive the aging Web portal. Luckily for her, her performance may be...Tags: Advertising, Sociology, Online Advertising, Marissa Mayer, MySpace
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FBI spied on Fox News reporter, accused him of crime
WASHINGTON — The FBI obtained a sealed search warrant to read a Fox News reporter's personal emails from two days in 2010 after arguing there was probable cause he had violated espionage laws by soliciting classified information from a government...
Tags: FBI, University of Chicago Law School, Politics, Espionage Act of 1917, Police Investigations
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