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Can There Ever Really Be Privacy in the Cloud?

cloud-privacyIt’s a great time to be a cloud consumer. Now you can access all of your digital information – when and wherever you want – across a variety of cloud compatible gadgets (iPad, Kindle, etc.). You can store your music collection in iCloud, you can share work and personal documents over Box.net, and you can do your expenses on Expensify – more…

3 Keys to Reaching Out to Investors in Your Local Market

The internet has played a huge role in the success of many of today’s best real estate investors. It enables investors to buy properties that they have never seen in person and sell properties to individuals around the world. However, just because opportunities are “out there” – and we mean way out there in some cases – does not mean that a global real estate investing operation will be right for every real estate investor. more…

September 2011 Search Engine Market Share from comScore, Hitwise

Google’s U.S. search engine market share climbed back up above 65 percent in September, while Yahoo’s share declined after two months of growth, according to comScore. While comScore shows Google market share just above 65 percent, Hitwise shows them hovering above 66 percent with Bing, Yahoo, and Bing-powered search all down. more…

Jobless resort to online posts to find work

jobsCraigslist, a network of online communities that offers free classified advertisements, is a portal into the misery of people who are struggling to find jobs. Posts from people who are desperate for work read like Haiku poems that detail hard times and fear. more…

10 Things to Thank Steve Jobs For

steve-jobsAfter what many would call a brilliant career, Apple’s Steve Jobs said late last night that he would step down as CEO. Though he will stay on as Chairman and still hold sway over the company, much of Apple’s day-to-day operations will fall to his successor Tim Cook. In his resignation letter, Jobs said that Apple has its best days ahead. While that may be true, now seems like as good a time as any to give credit where credit due. more…

King of Classifieds gives Dalhousie $3m in honour of dad

JohnHMcCallMacBainHe was the King of Classifieds, an Ontario man who became a multimillionaire by publishing ads for used cars and goods around the world.

In 2006, he sold his entire line of buy-and-sell magazines like the Auto Trader and Bargain Finder for more…

The Mystery of Steve Jobs’s Public Giving

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David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News

Steve Jobs is a genius. He is an innovator. A visionary. He is perhaps the most beloved billionaire in the world.

Surprisingly, there is one thing that Mr. Jobs is not, at least not yet: a prominent philanthropist. more…

Essay: Jobs’s Departure as CEO of Apple Is the End of an Extraordinary Era

walt-mossberg-steve-jobsSteve Jobs’s resignation as chief executive officer of Apple is the end of an extraordinary era, not just for Apple, but for the global technology industry in general. Jobs is a historic business figure whose impact was deeply felt far beyond the company’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, and who was widely emulated at other companies. more…

Finding A Student Who Wasn’t Lost: Social Media To The Rescue?

istockSomething interesting happened to Jacob Boehm and his family, but it isn’t what the media’s suggesting.

In case you missed this story: Boehm is a 22-year-old Stanford student who spent the summer performing with his school choir in Japan. After the group finished touring, more…

Online ads take on new dimension in social media

online-adsSOUTHEAST ASIAN customers are highly influenced by advertisements on sites such as Facebook and companies should strive to engage users of social networks in brand promotions, measurement firm Nielsen said.
“People will most likely interact with a brand if their friends recommended it,” more…

Why big business is scared of social media malware

Who’s afraid of social networks? Apparently, large enterprises are, at least according to a recent report by IT security firm Kaspersky Lab, which indicated that companies are “very cautious” about new media and how it affects their internal security. more…

HOW TO: Land a Job at Meetup

meetupA Meetup happens every 13 seconds, and there are over 90,000 Meetup Groups for more than 9 million members. As Meetups become more popular and widespread, the Meetup team continues to grow.

Meetup staff are known as “MEME-teamers,” MEME being an acronym for “Meetups Everywhere about more…