Posts Tagged ‘internet’

Put a cork in the Internet bubble talk — for now (AP)

FILE - In this file photo taken June 15, 2011, Joe Kennedy, third from left, CEO & President, and Tim Westergren, fourth from left, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder, of Pandora internet radio, ring the NYSE opening bell to celebrate their company's IPO at the New York Stock Exchange. Here’s something to keep in mind for those worried that we’re in another tech stock bubble: We’re still nowhere close to the giddy days of the late 1990s and early 2000 when investors bought stocks as impulsively as lottery tickets. Technology stocks are trading at their cheapest prices in more than nine years.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)AP – It’s starting to feel like a 1999 flashback. Internet companies — some of them profitable, some not — sense a golden opportunity and are lining up to go public this year.


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Weiner won’t go; new photos surface on Internet (AP)

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., is questioned by the media near his home in the Queens borough of New York, Saturday, June  11, 2011. The 46-year-old congressman acknowledged Friday that he had online contact with a 17-year-old girl from Delaware but said there was nothing inappropriate. (AP Photo/David Karp)AP – The second-ranking House Democrat on Sunday joined the party leadership in urging Rep. Anthony Weiner to quit because of his sexting scandal, a request the New York lawmaker has sidestepped in favor of a temporary leave of absence.


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Man dies after fall from balcony while ‘planking,’ dangerous new internet craze

A young man plunged to his death from an apartment balcony in Australia while “planking,” a sometimes-dangerous new craze in which people lie face down in strange places while someone takes their picture.

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Amazon failure takes down sites across Internet (AP)

In this screen shot of the fousquare.com website, an apology for technical difficulties is displayed. Dozens of major websites including Foursquare, Reddit and others crash or suffer severe slowdowns after technical problems wrack their hosting company, Amazon.com.  (AP Photo/foursquare.com)AP – Scores of websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit crashed or had limited availability Thursday because of problems at a data center run by Amazon.com.


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Internet, phones down as Egypt braces for protests (AP)

An Egyptian riot policeman aims his tear gas gun during clashes with anti-government protesters in Suez, Egypt Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Egyptian activists protested for a third day as social networking sites called for a mass rally in the capital Cairo after Friday prayers, keeping up the momentum of the country's largest anti-government protests in years. (AP Photo)AP – The Internet and cell-phone data service appeared to be cut across Egypt on Friday as authorities braced for demonstrations backed by both the country’s biggest opposition group and newly returned Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei.


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Egypt: Internet down, police counterterror unit up (AP)

Egyptian protesters clash with riot police in Suez, Egypt Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Egyptian activists protested for a third day as social networking sites called for a mass rally in the capital Cairo after Friday prayers, keeping up the momentum of the country's largest anti-government protests in years. (AP Photo)AP – Egypt’s government has disrupted Internet service and deployed an elite special operations counterterrorism force hours before anti-government protesters expect a new wave of mass rallies to begin.


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Polls gone wild: Political gripes in Internet age (AP)

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2010 file photo, Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich talks to supporters at a rally at the Strongsville Community Center,  in Strongsville, Ohio. When a widely publicized poll showed Kasich with a commanding, 10-point advantage in Ohio's governor's race, Gov. Ted Strickland's aides fought back hard. — Against the poll. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)AP – When a widely publicized poll showed Republican John Kasich with a commanding, 10-point advantage in Ohio’s governor’s race, aides to Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland fought back hard. Against the poll.


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