British teen Nick D'Aloisio has sold his popular news-reading mobile app to Yahoo for close to $30 million.SAN FRANCISCO -- Meet Nick D'Aloisio, the 17-year-old British entrepreneur sensation who just sold his popular news-reading app tofor close to $30 million, instantly becoming one of the world's youngest self-made technology millionaires.It's the classic Silicon Valley success story of a young...
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Chandni Chawak Metro station in Delhi has been closed and Metro operation has been disrupted in the national capital over a bomb scare. Bomb Disposal Squad has been trying to find out the location of the bomb.The latest news over bomb scare in Delhi Metro surfaced when the popular news agency - Asian News International (ANI) tweeted from itssaying, "Metro not operational, station closed in Chandi Chowk...
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study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters.The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism on Monday released their examination of 15 months of the most popular news videos on the Google Inc.-owned site.It found that while viewership for TV news still...
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beleaguered News Corp., burdened by an ever-worsening scandal regarding illegal phone-hacking, may be forced to unload its remaining newspapers in Great Britain, according toThe highly-profitable and wildly popular News of the World tabloid was shut down last Sunday., told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that a segment of News Corp.’s inner circle have wondered why the company owns any tabloids anywayNews...
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SharePakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is “fine” and will return home soon, a news anchor quoted him as saying on Friday, nearly a week after his rush to a Dubai hospital led to speculation the unpopular leader might resign and even of a possible coup.“I'm fine and will return soon,” Zardari reportedly told Hamid Mir, a popular news anchor, who repeated the comments on state television. “I did not...
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Moscow, Nov 25: With people being given their pink slip and with the world economy going through some harsh times, people are loosing their jobs more than ever now. But one Russian newsreader has lost her job for an absolutely different reason. The award winning Russian newsreader was fired for showing the finger when she was reading a news report on US president Barack Obama.Working with popular news...
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President Asif Ali Zardari is "fine" and will return home soon, a news anchor quoted him as saying on Friday, nearly a week after he was rushed tofor health reasons that led to rumours of his resignation and speculation about a possible coup."I'm fine and will return soon," Zardari reportedly told Hamid Mir, a popular news anchor, who repeated Zardari's statement on state television. "I did not want...
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Facebook is all set to unveil a new look for its popular "news feed" today at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The event will be Facebook's second high-profile product event this year, following the rollout of its social search feature in January. After the company announced to launch a revamped news feed on March 7, rumours started surfacing as to what changes will Facebook make to its existing...
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President Asif Ali Zardari has said he is “fine” and will return home soon, a news anchor quoted him as saying on Friday, nearly a week after his rush to a Dubai hospital led to speculation the unpopular leader might resign and even of a possible coup.“I’m fine and will return soon,” Zardari reportedly told Hamid Mir, a popular news anchor, who repeated the comments on state television.“I did not want...
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story about world population hitting seven billion was the most clicked on among Facebook usersBirths, deaths and weddings consumed Britons on Facebook in 2011, it has been revealed.A BBC news story about the global population hitting seven billion topped Facebook's list of the most popular news stories in 2011.By contrast, the most talked about topics were the royal wedding, UK riots and TV show The...
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