FOLLOWING web trends is a fascinating prospect. Over 17 years of writing on the Internet, I’ve watched the web shift and dip and twist many times. It’s doing it again (and it won’t stop here). From Buzzfeed, an interesting look at what’s happening now. BuzzFeed tracked traffic referrals to over 200 publishers in the BuzzFeed [...]
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Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Doubles Maternity Leave
Mayer’s move also comes amid a broader debate in America about the country’s commitment to family leave. The United States, which hasn’t updated its Family and Medical Leave Act in 20 years, ranks among the worst of all developed countries. Sweden, Denmark Russian mothers get at least a year off paid and Canadian mothers get [...]
Boston Marathon Explosions: At Least 3 Killed, 113 Injured [VIDEO] *More Updates*
Joyce Arnold’s original piece, with updates added. Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned. Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect was under guard at an undisclosed Boston hospital. Fox News reported that the suspect suffered severe burns. [New York Post] MORE [...]
Top Techs Act on Immigration Reform
With a bipartisan group of senators expected to unveil immigration-reform legislation in the next few days, a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that nearly two-thirds of Americans – including eight-in-10 Latinos – support giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. – [NBC FirstRead] THE RELEASE of the latest polling on immigration reform comes [...]
Women and Debt – Taking Back Control [Google Hangout Replay]
Women and Debt – Taking Back Control {Google Hangout Replay} (via The Debt Movement) What an another awesome Google Hangout featuring some motivational ladies. I definitely felt blessed to be in with good company as they shared some great tips and strategies to help women conquer their debt. Joining me was Farnoosh Torabi, Carrie Rocha, [...]
Google Uses Bermuda No-Tax Shelter, Revenues Soar to $10 Billion
IT LOOKS like Google may run smack into the European Union’s executive body, the European Commission, which is reportedly looking into blacklisting companies that go to great lengths to avoid paying taxes. That’s exactly what Google has done. A Bloomberg report lays out the trouble Google is running into across Europe, as countries there look [...]
News Desk: Google Shares Plummet on Early Notice of 20% Earnings Fall
FINGERS POINT to R.R. Donnelley, Google’s financial printer, after numbers were prematurely released. Trading on Google ceased on Nasdaq, but will resume when the issue is reconciled. From the Wall Street Journal: Google Inc. GOOG -9.82% prematurely released its quarterly earnings midday Thursday, reporting that profit declined 20% as total costs jumped and advertising prices [...]
Google’s New ‘Privacy’ Policy
Don’t. Track. US. It’s in response to Google’s new (ahem) privacy policy, which lands March 1, 2012. Meanwhile, after Twitter announced it would agree to censoring tweets in some countries, a boycott call broke out. This post has been updated.
TM.com will go dark to protest SOPA & PIPA
Controversial anti-piracy legislation, already on life support in the House, is now in serious doubt in the Senate, where the confluence of a Republican rump rebellion, White House concerns and a Wednesday blackout by Wikipedia, Mozilla and other big-name websites is enough to give some senators second thoughts. Republican Sen. Scott Brown, locked in a [...]
WSJ: FTC to Serve Google with Subpoenas in Antitrust Probe
From the Wall Street Journal: The Federal Trade Commission is poised to serve Google Inc. with civil subpoenas, according to people familiar with the matter, signaling the start of a wide-ranging, formal investigation into whether the Internet-search giant has abused its dominance on the Web. [...] The new inquiry, by contrast, will examine fundamental issues [...]
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