Posts Tagged ‘area’
Senators to Apple: Pull DUI Checkpoint Apps
Apparently, it’s pile on the folks at Apple week. The company now finds themselves involved in two major app controversies, and it’s only Tuesday. Yesterday, we told you about the heat Apple was taking from gay-rights activists for a 4+ rated app in their app store offering to cure homosexuals through the power of Christianity. Today, four U.S. Senators asked Apple to pull apps that allow users to report and avoid DUI Checkpoints and other police interactions
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Senators to Apple: Pull DUI Checkpoint Apps
Google: We Already Have Groupon-Like Products
Google’s Marissa Mayer recently made the switch from the company’s VP of search products to focusing on the company’s geo and local products. In a recent interview with Media Beat , Mayer talked a bit about how the location-based service space has gotten off to a slow start (in terms of actual user adoption), as well as some reasons that Google already has some things to offer in Groupon’s territory (as you’re probably aware, Groupon recently turned down an acquisition offer from Google).? In terms of that slow location-based service adoption, Mayer said, “I think a lot of this means that it’s just very early. So it’s a very fast moving space
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Google: We Already Have Groupon-Like Products
Using Social Media To Help Those In Need
One of the greatest aspects of social media is how it’s been adapted to helping charitable causes and non-profits. From reacting to the Haiti disaster to raising funds for a kids school in Tanzania , social media continues to show just how much we can make a change where before we may have thought there was nothing we could do.
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Using Social Media To Help Those In Need
