http://thedailyrecord.com Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news Fri, 24 May 2013 17:29:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/04/facebook-unveils-home-android-product/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/04/facebook-unveils-home-android-product/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:04:27 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=237043 MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is not building a phone or an operating system. Rather, Facebook is introducing a mobile experience called “Home” that makes the social network the hub of any smartphone that runs Google’s Android operating system. Zuckerberg says users can have an experience on Android phones [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/04/facebook-unveils-home-android-product/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/03/sec-gives-companies-ok-to-use-social-media/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/03/sec-gives-companies-ok-to-use-social-media/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:35:04 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=236893 WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission will allow public companies to make significant announcements on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites provided they alert investors which sites they intend to use. The decision announced Tuesday allows companies to use social media in place of more formal websites. The question arose after Netflix Inc. [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/03/sec-gives-companies-ok-to-use-social-media/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/02/as-facebook-matures-is-it-losing-its-edge/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/02/as-facebook-matures-is-it-losing-its-edge/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:55:27 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=236825 NEW YORK — To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then those friends shared with their friends. Soon, after Amazon paid to promote it, posts featuring the [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/02/as-facebook-matures-is-it-losing-its-edge/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/18/burger-king-plans-apology-after-twitter-hack/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/18/burger-king-plans-apology-after-twitter-hack/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:35:51 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=233823 Somebody hacked Burger King’s Twitter account on Monday, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald’s logo. The tweets stopped after a little more than an hour, and Burger King said it had reached out to Twitter to suspend the account. A Twitter spokesman did not immediately respond to a phone message [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/18/burger-king-plans-apology-after-twitter-hack/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/14/are-colleges-stalking-student-athletes/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/14/are-colleges-stalking-student-athletes/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:25:41 +0000 Capital News Service http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=233698 A university that stalks or bans student-athletes’ Facebook and Twitter accounts may be legally out of bounds, sports law experts say. University athletic departments are following the trend set by professional sports teams to regulate social media. But university officials who ask student-athletes for social media passwords or registered handles to monitor their activity or [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/14/are-colleges-stalking-student-athletes/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/04/anne-arundel-debating-use-of-social-media-in-class/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/04/anne-arundel-debating-use-of-social-media-in-class/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:57:26 +0000 The Capital of Annapolis http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=232920 ANNAPOLIS — Teachers and students may have something new they can “like” about the Anne Arundel County school board. On Wednesday, the Board of Education will get a first look at two proposals that would end a ban on Facebook, Twitter and other social media in the classroom. The policies address the appropriate use of [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/04/anne-arundel-debating-use-of-social-media-in-class/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/12/18/opaque-instagram-ad-policy-change-riles-users/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/12/18/opaque-instagram-ad-policy-change-riles-users/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:45:22 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=230225 SAN FRANCISCO — Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing service now owned by Facebook, is the target of a storm of outrage, much of it on social media, after changes in its user agreement give it broader rights to use its members’ photos in advertisements. In a blog post that offered few details, Instagram said the [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/12/18/opaque-instagram-ad-policy-change-riles-users/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/11/08/twitter-mistakenly-resets-passwords-of-some-users/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/11/08/twitter-mistakenly-resets-passwords-of-some-users/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:00:41 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=227604 SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter says it mistakenly reset the passwords of some users as part of a routine security check-up. Thursday’s mix-up triggered warnings on technology blogs and in tweets that the online messaging service had been attacked by computer hackers. Twitter sought to clear up the confusion with a post on its website a [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/11/08/twitter-mistakenly-resets-passwords-of-some-users/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/09/27/timberlake-tries-to-bring-myspace-back/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/09/27/timberlake-tries-to-bring-myspace-back/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:02:10 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=224380 NEW YORK — “Who am I to say I want you back? When you were never mine to give away.” Those are the opening lines of a song that accompanies a “New Myspace” promotional video. The once-mighty social network is trying to stage yet another comeback with the help of Justin Timberlake. The new site, [...]

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