Jan 12, 2012
|Story| KSPR-TV
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Reporter, Photographer
One Springfield city council member says it may be time to suspend or modify the city’s scrap metal ordinance. The ordinance requires scrap metal yards in the city to enter anyone selling more than $50 worth of metal into an online database. City...
May 21, 2013
|Story| Reuters
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Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (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 graded generously.
Mayer faces...
May 21, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
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Daily Press
The idea of buying local produce on the Internet seems a bit strange. But online ordering of fresh products is a growing industry, says Cade Holliday, operations manager for Backyard Produce.
The Raleigh, N.C.-based company recently announced that it...
May 21, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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The Harford County Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits, or DILP, working in cooperation with the Department of Information Systems, has made technology enhancements that will now allow DILP to migrate from traditional file storage to...
May 21, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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A judge has ruled that Airbnb, the popular online service that allows homeowners and apartment dwellers to offer their residences as temporary rentals, is illegal in New York City.
The decision from the city’s Environmental Control Board found...
May 21, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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Mobile payments company Payvia Inc. has acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up.
The companies declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal. The Mogreet team will join Los Angeles company Payvia, and Mogreet founder and Chief...
May 20, 2013
|Story| AP Broadcast
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AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After falling woefully out of fashion, Yahoo wants to be cool again while catering to the capitalistic demands of its shareholders. That goal led CEO Marissa Mayer to make a $1.1 billion bet on online blogging forum Tumblr in...
May 20, 2013
|Story| AP Broadcast
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Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — As a teenager, Tumblr CEO David Karp would canvass the streets of New York City's Upper West Side, offering to build websites for local businesses. After his freshman year of high school, the precocious, computer-savvy kid decided to...
May 20, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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Mobile payments company Payvia announced Monday that it had acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up.
Payvia, based in L.A., said the deal would create a simplified all-in-one platform that enables companies to target consumers and provide...
May 20, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is attempting a bold — and risky — strategy to turn around the struggling Internet giant with the $1.1-billion acquisition of Tumblr, a trendy social blogging service popular...
May 20, 2013
|Story| McClatchy-Tribune
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Las Vegas Sun
As bright sunny skies beamed down on them, hundreds of UNLV's graduates lingered near the entryway of the Thomas & Mack Center around noon Sunday.
UNLV officials said there were nearly 3,000 undergraduate and professional students who were eligible to...
May 20, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Whether you stay or go, it's smart to back up important files, photos and other information from your computer and other electronic devices.
Computers
MICROSOFT allows users to store data in the cloud with SkyDrive. Once you create a free account, you...
