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Jackie Chan Pummeled on Chinese Social Media
2013-08-08 00:49:51| TechNewsWorld
Movie star Jackie Chan, the Chinese kung fu aficionado who has appeared in more than 150 films, is taking loads of flak for posts on Chinese social media. Chan first riled Chinese netizens when he posted a photo of a picturesque Beijing skyline with the caption, "I took the picture myself. Who says Beijing doesn't have blue sky? Look how blue the sky is and how green the land is."
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Russian Social Network Tycoon Offers Job to Snowden
2013-08-06 18:25:59| TechNewsWorld
Hot air, maybe. But it's Edward Snowden, so it's news. Pavel Durov, the 28-year-old Russian CEO of social network site VKontakte, has offered Snowden a job as a security software developer. VKontakte is akin to Facebook and has 100 million active users, mostly from Eastern Europe. Last week, Russia granted Snowden, who had been holed up in a Moscow airport, temporary asylum.
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People speak: the best of our social network feedback
2013-08-06 11:54:16| Livestock - Topix.net
Two influential members of Jamaica's livestock industry are calling for the imposition of an import tax on canned corned beef to resuscitate the ailing local beef industry.
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'Social Cost of Carbon' Draws Coal, Oil Industry Lobbying
2013-08-06 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A once-obscure metric of carbon emissions toll is becoming the talk of K Street or at least a corner of it. Two oil companies and big coal producer have begun lobbying on the social cost of carbon, signaling increased interest and concern over how regulators calculate the benefits of avoided pollution. Second-quarter lobbying filings show that coal giant Peabody Energy, oil-and-gas producer Marathon Oil Corp. and refiner Tesoro Corp. all list the topic among their lobbying issues. Their filings...
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Pew: Social Networks Used by Nearly Three-Quarters of Adult Web Surfers
2013-08-06 02:34:05| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Some 72 percent of online adults were using social networking sites as of May -- up from 67 percent in late 2012, according to Pew Internet.
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