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  [STUDY] 59% of Customers Don't About Their Banks' Social Media Presence

  8th February 2012 21:15

  In ComScore's report on The State of Online and Mobile Banking, it cites social networks as a space where banks are creating a presence, and improving their capabilities. But do any of the banks' customers even know about this? Apparently not. Even though financial institutes have increased social networking activity, ComScore says that only 18% of customers knew that their financial institutions had a presence on social networks. A total 59% had no idea, and 24% were unsure of what…

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  Path Apologizes For Privacy Mistake. Do You Accept?

  8th February 2012 20:48

  After an enterprising hacker discovered a privacy problem in beloved new social app Path yesterday, its creators have issued an update and an apology. "We commit to you that we will continue to be transparent and always serve you our users, first," CEO Dave Morin writes. Path was uploading iPhone users' address books to its servers without asking. Today's update, version 2.0.6, now prompts users to opt in to the 'Add Friends' feature, which is not mandatory. Path has deleted…

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  Grovo How To Do SEO Video Series

  8th February 2012 20:33

  We've written earlier about Grovo, an online video elearning site that conducts a lot of celebrity interviews. Some of them are more interesting than others. Today they have a new series with Zach Ciperski, the Director of SEO for EliteSEM and also serves as Vice President of CoffeeForLess.com. He has built sites for some major retailers and teaches SEO at New York University, among other places. His series is on How To SEO, and is worth watching if you are…

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  Expect "Windows 8 for Mobile" at Feb. 29 Barcelona Rollout

  8th February 2012 20:09

  A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to ReadWriteWeb this afternoon that the Consumer Preview phase of Windows 8 testing is slated to begin on Wednesday, February 29, with a gala preview event in Barcelona. That's to coincide - for the first time - with Mobile World Congress, which has not generally been known as the kind of affair where a PC operating system is the headliner. The venue may definitely steal some of the thunder from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt's keynote, which…

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  Exclusive: Interview With Inside Apple's Adam Lashinsky [Video]

  8th February 2012 19:59

  On Friday, February 3, at the lovely Delancey St. Theater in San Francisco, ReadWriteWeb and our new home company, SAY Media, co-hosted a release party for Adam Lashinsky's new book, Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired - And Secretive - Company Really Works. It was our first joint event since we joined SAY in December. RWW and SAY are working together to figure out the future of media, so a gathering to discuss a book about Apple was a great…

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  New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for January 2012

  8th February 2012 19:00

  2012 started with a flourish of new apps across iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The holiday season is the busiest time of year for app publishers but the follow up in January was equally impressive. That is a testament to the growing app ecosystem and the amount of developers starting to program for the mobile platforms. We take a look at some of our favorite new apps from last month below. The app update section returns for the its fifth…

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  Watch Out Netflix: Amazon to Stream Everything From Spongebob to Jersey Shore

  8th February 2012 18:46

  Amazon's on-demand streaming video offering just got a whole lot more attractive. The company announced today that they signed a deal with Viacom, allowing them to offer thousands of new videos from sources like MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, BET and Nickelodeon, among others. In total, Amazon Prime will have over 15,000 videos available for streaming, including some very popular television shows. Amazon launched its video streaming service about a year ago with 5,000 videos. With today's announcement, that number is…

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  Harvard Researcher Uses Social Media To Predict Stock Market Volume

  8th February 2012 18:30

  Social media sentiment can predict flutuations in stock market volume as much as six to seven days ahead of time, according to a Harvard Business School doctoral candidate who has been studying the impact social media has on equities. That could become a valuable tool for hedge funds and investment firms. High volatility often makes it easier for firms to trade stocks. Volatility predictions can also be factored into more comprehensive trading models and better predict whether a stock's price…

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  Rambus, Nvidia Wisely Put Patent Dispute Behind Them

  8th February 2012 18:00

  When a corporation stakes its reputation on the competitive value of its patent portfolio, it can't afford to watch that portfolio go down in flames. Although the novelty of most any patented technological concept perhaps warrants some re-examination, three patents assigned to memory maker Rambus were recently invalidated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in a dispute with graphics device maker Nvidia over whether the act of rendering functionality on a single chip is a novel idea or just…

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  Q&A: Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley on What He's Learning From Twitter and What's Next

  8th February 2012 17:00

  Foursquare, about to celebrate its third birthday, is big but not huge. It has signed up 15 million users, hired over 100 employees, and now boasts several million check-ins per day. That is impressive work for three years, but it must keep growing. To do so, Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley says the company is in the process of redesigning its mobile app for a broader audience, disassembling it and trying to put its features back together in a…