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News US & World

Hofstra Twin College Student Shot During Home Invasion

A 21-year-old college student was shot and killed early Friday on Long Island after an armed man broke into the home she shared with her twin sister.  The Hofstra studen twas held hostage as the intruder engaged in a fire fight with police.  Both the hostage and the man who broke in were killed in […]

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Politics US & World

Websites Go Dark for Sandy Hook Moment of Silence

Major websites are going dark today at 9:30am as part of a national moment of silence for the Sandy Hook victims. No one knows exactly which websites, or how many, are participating in the event, though more than 100,000 people and websites have pledged to join the cause, according to Causes.com. The event is also […]

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News US & World

New York Times NYC Subway Push : Picture Grows with Controversy

A man was arrested for pushing a man onto the tracks of an oncoming train in New York City.  He pushed the man and watched from the platform, making no effort to help him up, as the man was hit by an oncoming train. “He wouldn’t leave me alone, so I pushed him,” Naeem Davis […]

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Android Mobile Mobile Phones Social Media

Instagram App for Android – Wait No More!

Well, all of the Android users can finally stop waiting around for the Instagram app!  Although it’s not on all phones, it’s on enough to make everyone excited.  Instagram had about 430,000 people on the Android-app waiting list prior to today’s release. The company says before today’s launch it had more than 30 million registered […]

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Business Entertainment Social Media

New York Times Sends an Email Blast by Mistake (Not Spam or Hack)

OOPS!  NYT made a huge mistake sending out an email on Wednesday.  They mistakenly sent an email to over 8.6 million people rather than 300.  The email sent out told people they’d cancelled their print subscription, and urged them to reconsider by offering a special discount — 50% off for 16 weeks. Many Twitter followers […]

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Facebook

‘Facebook Editions’ – Facebook Wants News Outlets To Make Facebook Apps

Facebook sees a huge problem looming on the horizon, and it goes by the name of Google+. Google+ hasn’t even been made available on a large scale to uses, and already it has accumulated 10 million users. And a lot of buzz is building right now about the potential that news outlets can leverage from […]

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Business

HuffingtonPost.com vs NYTimes.com – Is It Really “Paid vs Free”?

About a week ago, BusinessInsider released a chart showing that HuffingtonPost.com has surged past NYTimes.com in web traffic.  HuffingPost’s unique visitors have topped NYTimes.com unique visitors by nearly 2 million per month – an impressive feat indeed. One AOL insider put it like this:  “6 years to disrupt 100 years.”  Obviously making a comparison between […]