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Shark attacks, while not terribly frequent when viewed in light of how many people visit the beach every day, are a valid concern for beach-goers and have been increasing in … Continue reading

Blackberry pulls latest Twitter for BB10 update, offers downgrade instructions

Earlier this month, Blackberry pushed out an update to the Twitter mobile app for Blackberry 10, bringing it up to version 10.2.2. Along with the new release came some new … Continue reading

13 Teens Bitching About Teens Bitching About Christmas Gadgets

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Twitter stock breaks records over 3 days due to mobile ad prospects

Twitter’s stock price rose to record levels three times in as many days. It closed today at $69.96, rising 8.4% over yesterday. In turn, the price closed 7.5% higher yesterday … Continue reading

Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Joins Walt Disney’s Board

Twitter Co Founder Jack Dorsey Joins Walt Disneys Board

Infamous media giant Walt Disney has announced that effective immediately, it has elected Twitter chairman and Square CEO Jack Dorsey as an independent director on its board. The seat Dorsey occupies now once belonged to a former chief technology officer of Cisco, Judith L. Estrin, who served on Disney’s board for 15 years, the maximum number of years for which one member can occupy the seat. Dorsey will stand for election when Walt Disney’s board meets for its annual meeting on March 18, next year.

Disney chairman and chief executive officer Robert A. Iger said that Jack Dorsey happens to be a “talented entrepreneur” and that the prespective he brings to the company’s board is extremely valuable, given the fact that Disney’s strategic priorities include making use of the latest technologies to better reach out to its customers. Dorsey is well known for his role at Twitter, which included posting the world’s first tweet back in March 2006. Until 2008, he was the president and CEO of Twitter, before becoming the chairman. He has also spearheaded the development and growth of Square, a popular commerce company founded in 2009. In a statement, Dorsey said that he is “honored and humbled” to join the “timeliness” company’s board.

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    Disney adds Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey to board of directors

    There’s nothing quite like adding a major hand in the current technology scene to your board of directors – and this week, Disney’s done just that. Jack Dorsey, cofounder of … Continue reading

    BlackPeopleMeet PR agency IAC “parts ways with” Sacco for racist tweet

    A PR agency that handles CollegeHumor, OkCupid, the Daily Beast, Vimeo and other high-profile web properties has “parted ways with” a corporate communications officer over a tweet deemed offensive by … Continue reading

    You can reserve your own custom Vine URL now by going here.

    You can reserve your own custom Vine URL now by going here. This probably means web profiles for the six-second video app are coming soon.

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    Vine vanity URLs go live for Twitter VIPs

    Vine has launched vanity URLs for its new web-profiles, allowing at least some users of the short video sharing service to reserve their own personal addresses. Confirmed as incoming yesterday, … Continue reading

    Vine Vanity URLs Launch Tomorrow

    Vine Vanity URLs Launch Tomorrow

    Vanity URLs serve a much more greater purpose than just allowing you to pick out a really cool moniker for your profile. They make it easier for people to discover you, assuming that you have no qualms with that, and they are also much shorter than conventional URLs which means that sharing them is as easy as telling someone your name. We’re already accustomed to using vanity URLs on Twitter and Facebook, but starting tomorrow, Vine users will also be able to reserve their very own monikers, which will then be displayed as “http://vine.co/(username).

    Registration for vanity URLs begin tomorrow at 9 am PT, at first Twitter, which owns Vine, will only allow those with verified Twitter accounts to reserve monikers. Users with verified accounts who don’t want a URL tied to the Twitter username can request a different URL, provided that it hasn’t already been registered by someone else. The average users will not be allowed to register until December 23rd. The process isn’t going to be too hard. Users will simply need to log into their accounts and follow the instructions to register their very own vanity URL. Once it is registered, it can’t be registered by someone else. Users aren’t compelled to do this though, its purely optional.

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