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Today is the day that hacker group Anonymous will start to hack, deface and cause general mayhem on certain sites around the world. The…
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CNN accounted for about 13% of all social media mentions, according to trend analytics firm Trendrr earlier this year. That’s impressive. Cable News Network…
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LinkedIn is in rude health. Its Q3 financial results completely demolished analysts expectations. That’s no hyperbole, it beat them by 80%. The professional social…
