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Minor raped video uploaded on social media
A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Rajasthan's Alwar town and the video of the crime then uploaded on a social networking website, police said Tuesday. According to police, the victim's father registered a first information report (FIR) Tuesday with a police station at Alwar, some 150 km from Jaipur. "The man says that a youth befriended his daughter on Facebook. He raped her a few ...
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Michelle Obamas bangs at G8 Summit slammed on Twitter
Michelle Obama, who headed to Belfast for this year's G8 summit, is facing backlash on Twitter for her fringes. Onlookers apparently were more concerned with the ill-received styling of her bangs than her speech, the Huffington Post reported. The first lady seems to be growing out her blunt trim and transitioning it to a side-swept style. ...
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Nawaz Sharifs million dollar watch rumours go viral on Twitter
Twitter reports of a PPP leader wearing a 'million dollar watch', have been confirmed that it was none other than Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who reportedly wore a 'Meteoris' watch during the national budget presentation. The price of the Louis Moinet 'Meteoris' watch has been estimated to be a whopping 4.6 million dollars. According to the Dawn, calling the budget to be anti-people ...
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Facebooks mysterious big idea Thursday event has netizens buzzing
Social media giant Facebook has created a mysterious event for Thursday, which is speculated to be the one where, the company would add video feature to its Instagram smartphone picture sharing service. Facebook acquired Instagram last year, but made it impossible for the users to integrate their images into tweets, following which Twitter launched Instagram-style smartphone photo sharing ...
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You Know Whats Cool 1 Million Advertisers At Facebook
just hit 1 million advertisers, a milestone that signals that it has become a mainstream advertising channel for small and medium-sized businesses. OK, so maybe cool isn't the right word, but it's hard to resist a good line ...
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Movie Review
Footloose [Blu-Ray]
Footloose is a decent movie that arrived at the perfect time. It was released in the early winter of 1984, the same year that MTV fully hit its stride as a cultural institution (by then it reached more than 20 million households), Sony was selling millions o ... ...
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Coca-Cola Leveraging Social To Drive Leadership in Social Media Marketing
Coca-Cola.FM and live-streaming music events, Coca-Cola has shown the world how revolutionary they can be and how this type of marketing evokes emotional, long-lasting customer engagement. ...
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Facebook reportedly delays release of video ads
(Credit: Facebook) Facebook is postponing the release of video advertisements that automatically play in News Feed, according to Ad Age. The social network wants to release the specialized units alongside new social-networking features and is now targeting an unofficial mid-October launch date, Ad ...
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CORRECTED-FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan Amazon builds a grocery business
Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:29pm EDT (Corrects to remove reference to Mark Zaleski in paragraph 18) By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001. Twelve years ...
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DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal
NSA PRISM surveillance program in the United States, many people have become much more concerned about what exactly search engines are tracking about them. Although Google, Bing, and Yahoo have stringent privacy policies, there have been enough people worried that they have begun looking at alternative search engines, particularly so-called "private search ...
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Naked gymnast faces charges over San Francisco transit stop antics
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A trained gymnast whose naked acrobatics and harassment of passengers at a San Francisco public transit station were captured on video and circulated widely on the Internet is facing criminal charges over his antics, authorities said on ...
They said it
Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
Hassan Rouhani
Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
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Wyndham New Orleans at Canal Place
On arrival at this hotel the thing that struck us most was the location. It was just meters from the ...
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