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Twitter Places Launches with Support for Foursquare, Gowalla Check-ins

June 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Twitter June 14 launched its Places feature to let users tag tweets with specific places they’re posting from. Twitter users can click the "Tweets about a place" tab in a Twitter Place within a tweet to see recent tweets from a location.
The microblog service also integrated Places with Foursquare and Gowalla. Users of those location-based Web services who publish check-ins to Twitter will see Twitter Places associated with tweets generated by these services. –

Twitter June 14 launched its Places geolocation
feature for its desktop and mobile Website to let users tag tweets with specific places
they’re posting from.
The idea is to boost the context and relevance of the
microblog service beyond the construct of typing 140 characters in a box. …

China Taisan places out 30m new shares to Atlantis Investment Management to raise $5.9m

May 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Mainboard-listed China Taisan Technology Group Holdings, the manufacturer of knitted fabrics used for sports and casual apparel, has entered into an agreement to issue 30 million new shares to Atlantis Investment Management, a boutique asset management firm based in London. The shares will be placed out at 19.5 cents per share, or a discount of 8.6% to the weighted average price of 21.33 cents of the company’s ordinary shares for trades done on 30 April 2010.

Google Places Vies for Local Search Share vs. Yelp, Twitter, Foursquare

April 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Google April 20 launched Google Places, formerly known as Google Local Business Center, to better reflect its integration with Google Place Pages, Web Pages that users can stumble across on Google Maps when looking for local businesses. While services such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Twitter approach location from a social angle with check-ins and a what’s-happening-where mentality, Google’s local search is tethered to its search platform. But Google is doing more to appeal to local businesses than any other. See the screenshots of Places features here.
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Google Places Refreshes Local Search Offering

April 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Google is making its local search offering more transparent for local businesses by changing the name of its Local Business Center to Google Places and offering new tools to help connect consumers with local shops. Google Places is also getting several new features for local businesses. For $25 per month, businesses in some cities can buy Tags to make their listings stand out on Google.com and Google Maps. Businesses in some cities can also now request a free photo shoot of their interiors, which Google will offer on Place Pages.
– Google April 20 sought to make its local search offering more transparent
for local businesses by renaming its Local
Business Center
Google
Places and offering new tools to help connect consumers with nearby shops.
Google’s Place Pages surface more than 50 million places around
the world when…

Healthway places out 108m new shares to International Finance Corp

March 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Healthway Medical Corporation says the company has agreed to place out 108 million new shares to International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, at 13 cents per share.

This equity investment is part of the US$25 million ($35 million) financing package from IFC, which comprises a US$15 million senior loan and equity of US$10 million, to fund the group’s expansion plans in China.

Dayen Environmental places out shares and options to Moya Holding for $20m cash

December 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Catalist-listed Dayen Environmental says it has concluded a share placement to Moya Holding Company BSC for $20 million in cash, in return for shares and share options representing a 51% interest in the enlarged capital of Dayen.

Moya is a Middle East water treatment and services company headquartered in Manama, the Kingdom of Bahrain, with operations based in Saudi Arabia and other key Middle East markets.

10 Best Places for Technology Jobs in 2009

September 18th, 2009 | No Comments

The U.S. News World Reports The 10 Best Places for Tech Jobs factors in the following criteria for making the list: number of opportunities relative to education, geography of job openings in a broad range of tech-specific job categories, supply and demand ratios, salary, and cost of living. It’s not surprising to see Boston, San Francisco and Seattle on this list, but Houston, Phoenix and Huntsville, Ala.? Now there are some nontraditional places for technology work. Why is that? Let’s find out.
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Friends in low places

September 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Hugo Chavez dreams of forging a new world order

THE mountains and jungles of South America are not ideal terrain for tank warfare. So it is hard to envisage what role Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, has in mind for the dozens of Russian tanks on his latest military shopping list. The strategic purpose of a recent tour that took him to some of the world’s least salubrious regimes is, however, easier to discern. And it led America’s State Department to give warning on Monday September 14th of a “serious challenge to stability” in the region.

Venezuela’s increasingly autocratic leader returned on Friday from a trip that took him to Libya, Iran, Algeria, Syria, Turkmenistan, Belarus and Russia, though he also found time for a visit Spain and the Venice film festival. On his jaunt he was decorated by Libya’s leader, Muammar Qaddafi, and embraced by Aleksandr Lukashenko, president of Belarus. …

Maria Rodale: Top 10 Places I Want to Travel to Before I Die

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

I am going to share my list of the top 10 places I want to go to before I die (in no particular order, although I hope dying comes last).

Dave Johnson: Health Care — Democrats Had Better Find Hiding Places

July 26th, 2009 | No Comments

I said it the other day, and I feel the need to repeat it: the public does not yet understand that the government is about…

Ruth Bettelheim: Hypocrisy in High Places

July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

When we repress important needs and desires so severely that we are unable to accept them as a part of ourselves, we give up the possibility of a controlled, thoughtful response to them.

Chip Shot: Intel Policy Blog – “Looking for Health Reform In All The Wrong Places”

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

“I’m trying to be hopeful that real reform will happen… but I am starting to lose faith.” In this powerful blog, Intel’s Eric Dishman writes more as an advocate of patients, and a son of two retired parents than as a strategist for Intel’s Digital Health Group. We invite you to join the conversation by following Eric’s blog and joining our Facebook page. With health reform imminent, Intel encourages everyone to get involved in the dialogue today.