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Vanity Fair - Wednesday 3rd April, 2013

Ever since Facebook's ballyhooed, bungled I.P.O., its share price has languished, with Wall Street asking when the social-media giant is going to grow up and make money. From confidential reports, visits to the company's sprawling campus, and interviews with its press-shy founder and C.E.O., Mark Zuckerberg, and C.O.O. Sheryl Sandberg, Kurt Eichenwald pieces together the largely ...

West Australian - Wednesday 3rd April, 2013

The West Australian Some of Australia's top companies aren't using their social media sites effectively, according to a Federal Government-funded study.Picture: Getty ...

News Channel 5 - Tuesday 2nd April, 2013

ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - The St. Louis Area Food Bank has nominated three of its partnering agencies to compete for funds on Facebook. Walmart is giving out 60 $20,000 grants to agencies that have the most votes via the social networking site. TWIGS, a free summer lunch program combating childhood hunger in southern Illinois, plans to give out 50,000 lunches this summer. TWIGS founder and ...

Star Tribune - Tuesday 2nd April, 2013

WASHINGTON - Companies can use social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter to announce key information as long as investors have been alerted where to look, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday. The SEC clarified the disclosure guidelines in a report of an investigation involving Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Reed Hastings, who posted monthly viewership results on his ...

Associated Press - Tuesday 2nd April, 2013

Securities and Exchange Commission says companies can use social media such as Facebook and Twitter to disseminate key information just as they already do on corporate ...

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Bangalore, Apr 1 (ANI): Political parties in Karnataka have geared up and employed the use of social networking and other modern techniques to woo over voters ahead of upcoming assembly elections.

On Monday, President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for Karnataka, Prahlad Joshi explained they were seeking information from the party unit in the Gujarat, which would help in the modernisation of the state.

He further said, "As far as using the latest technologies is concerned, we are always doing that and Gujarat is the best example, we have already requested the Gujarat unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party to send the details so that we can work it out."

Though aspirants were busy campaigning for their respective parties, the IT cell of all political parties is worked relentlessly to promote these parties in social media sites like FaceBook and Twitter to reach out to maximum number of voters both in urban and rural belt of the state.

BJP also asked for suggestions from the Gujarat BJP, which has done several new experiments and got positive results by using this medium in last assembly election.

Parties are using social media and messages on mobile phones as a part of their election campaign.

The spokesperson of the regional party, Karnataka Janata Paksha, Dhananjay Kumar elaborated on the modern techniques being implemented by the party ahead of the upcoming state polls.

"The campaign this time include the usage of multimedia also, the visuals, the audio, the internet services, the face book and twitters and also the cell phones, sending sms's, audio visuals. All these kind of modern techniques are being employed by all of our candidates, even the party is putting up all information via Internet," he said.

Kumar also spoke of the importance of social networking sites elaborating on the number of voters using such sites and explained that modern technologies such as cell phones and visual media are quintessential to reach out to the voters in every corner of the state. (ANI)

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Parties from south employ social networking sites to woo voters ahead of Polls

Survey found consumers are using social networking while watching TV, traveling, doing work, sitting on the toilet, partying, shopping, and even while driving.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 02, 2013

Survey Findings: http://www.creditdonkey.com/social-media-usage-statistics.html

Are consumers glued to social networking? The CreditDonkey.com survey indicates so. When asked if they use social networking, respondents said they do it while:

Differences in gender:

"The research team at CreditDonkey.com conducted the survey primarily to see if consumers use social networking while shopping but were surprised at the number of folks who use social networking everywhere else," says Charles Tran, founder of CreditDonkey.com. "It's alarming to see over 1 in 10 respondents using social networking while driving, considering the well-publicized dangers of distracted driving."

For more survey findings, visit http://www.creditdonkey.com/social-media-usage-statistics.html

CreditDonkey.com surveyed 1,250 Americans, age 18 and over between February 19, 2013, and March 6, 2013, on their use of technology.

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