Has social media changed the way we think about wedding photos?In the era of Facebook and Instagram, wedding photos are no longer just for friends and family, and couples and photographers with the most impressive or entertaining photos can become celebrities overnight. While this may seem jarring to some people, it’s not a trend that’s […]
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Facebook has found itself in yet another sticky public relations situation. As a recent report from The Wall Street Journal highlights, the social media behemoth, hosting 1.3 billion active users, is said to have conducted social experiments on 700,000 unknowing users in 2012. The aim of the experiments? By manipulating the type of posts users see in their feeds, […]
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A legal battle over digital billboards between the Federal Highway Association (FHWA) and Scenic America has finally ended with a loss for Scenic America, which is an anti-billboard advocacy group. The suit originally began almost eight years ago in 2007, when Scenic America challenged an internal FHWA memo, which stated that digital billboards were not banned […]
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This past May, one bride-to-be hailing from Ware, Massachusetts, did something out of the ordinary — she took off her engagement ring in order to take part in a charity softball game, and stuck it in a friend’s handbag for safekeeping. According to Holly Kusek, “In the beginning of the game, I put my engagement ring […]
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Evan Williams, former chief executive of Twitter and the creator of Google’s Blogger, has created a blogging platisher–a new technological hybrid where sites are both platforms and publishers–entitled Medium, which has not only enamored writers all across the Internet, but may also be poised to become one of the web’s next big mainstays. “We want […]
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Apple, responding to an increasingly hostile digital commerce market, is taking steps to upgrade the POS systems and hardware on its most popular smartphone devices. On all new models of the iPhone 5S, Apple is installing a VeriFone Systems Inc. point-of-sale shell. The shell works to block out any unwanted signals from intercepting sensitive information […]
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