KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Surveillance video of a 7-year-old girl fighting off a man who was trying to abduct her is raising new attention to self-defense lessons for young children. Thursday, February 9, 2012.

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Kodak, once a symbol of technological innovation, is lately looking more like a textbook example of a disrupted company. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, after years of struggling to keep up in a landscape dominated by digital cameras, smartphones and photo-sharing apps. One of the ways that Kodak tried to stay competitive is by manufacturing and selling digital cameras. Today, those efforts come to an end with the news that the company will be getting out of t...  show all text

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LinkedIn announced its earnings today, with revenue making an impressive jump up 105 percent, beating street estimates. The company is a business-centric social network that aims to connect people for networking, job opportunities, resources, and more. In May of 2011, the company completed its initial public offering, to a good reception, but then leveled out in the third quarter. LinkedIn’s revenue topped at $167.7 million in the fourth quarter, 67 percent of which was revenue generated by the...  show all text

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Female Aircraft Worker "Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies." Image courtesy of The Library of Congress, Flickr. Click here to view this gallery. Flickr Commons, a collaboration between the photo-sharing site and the Library of Congress that began in 2008, has released 17 of its most-popular photos to celebrate its fourth anniversary. The project began as an effort to increase exposure to some of the world’s historic...  show all text

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The bureau compiled a dossier in 1991, when Mr. Jobs was president of NeXT, because he was being considered for an appointment to President George H.W. Bush's Export Council. The document contains a few salacious details that come as little surprise two decades later.

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Pinterest, the visual bookmarking site, has exploded over the last three weeks. And while many users' pinned content is focused on fashion and home decor, consumer brands are using the site for far more. Pinterest is all the rage, the hottest, newest blossoming social networking site. Pinners are creating pinboards of home decor, lush food items, wedding designs and fashion combinations. Since I'm don't spend a huge portion of my time on any of those topics, I've been wondering: who are Pinter...  show all text

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The channel will replay shows featuring Gerri Willis, Neil Cavuto and Lou Dobbs in the evening.

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Rarely do I find a need to call out the W3C folks (or anyone, for that matter), but the recent post by Daniel Glazman (@glazou), co-chair of the W3C CSS working group, pushed me over the edge. In his article, he calls for everyone to, get this, stop using -webkit in their sites. He equates webkit, now a popular engine for most new mobile browsers, to IE6. Moreover, he calls it a “threat to the open web”. Seriously? This from the group responsible for years of delays in approving standards? Reme...  show all text

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The majority of adults, 85 percent, in a new study believe that visiting social networks like Facebook are a pleasant way to spend time. The report was published today by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project. Among the study’s highlights are these numbers: Only a small sampling of adults said their experience on social networks was unpleasant. Five percent of adults said that people are mostly unkind on Facebook and other social media channels, while five percent said their an...  show all text

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Astrid Francesca Walk - Two troublemakers meet in San Francisco, find love & create a new venture - While she doesn't do much today, Astrid Francesca Walk has a long & happy product roadmap ahead of her. At 21 inches & 8 lbs she's no lean startup! How to describe her feature set? Some say "airbnb for diapers," but we just call her "our daughter" and think she'll definitely be one of the most amazing new ventures ever launched in Silicon Valley. Don't take our word for it, c...

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Pin and Win: Pin this $90 bottle of wine and I will pick one of you randomly and send you the BOTTLE ( me not Wine Library ) -tasting note_ This is a classic Bordeaux, huge fruit and wonderful dark raspberry, sour cherry, hint of cedar a touch of coffee bean and a mix of Petes coffee, Green MT. Coffee and a splash of starbucks on the finish, yes this wine has coffee flavors but most of all it's complex, well made and the finish will last for 60+ seconds. Look for this wine to last 20 years or s...

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Jon Mitchell explains why Google Drive doesn't have to be a Dropbox clone. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. Sponsor Fabled Google Drive Won't Be Anoth...  show all text

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In it's 5th year, the Washington Business Journal is thrilled to recognize the Washington region's top minority business owners and leaders in the Minority Business Leader Awards. Join us in celebrating the the development and successes of Diversity in the Greater Washington region.

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The popularity of banda music, in which the tuba plays a dominant role, is seen by some as the cause of a recent rash of thefts.

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Double Fine and 2 Player Productions is raising funds for Double Fine Adventure on Kickstarter! An adventure game from Tim Schafer, Double Fine, and YOU!

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“Hello. My name is Cori and I’m a social media addict. “Today is day 1 of my commitment to give myself a regular break from technology and the foggy, uncreative haze it can unwittingly lead to.” I was reading a post the other day by blogger Michael Brenner at B2B Marketing Insider, talking about getting your social media game on. Of course, being the skimmer that I am, the first thing that caught my attention and made me go back and read the whole thing was his mention of having a Social Media ...  show all text

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Google, Amazon and Adobe defeated a patent claiming ownership over online video, image rotation and search auto-complete. TYLER, Texas — After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas Technologies — named after the Irish word for knowledge — may be finished. An eight-member federal jury in East Texas deliberated Thursday for just a few hours before concluding that all of Eolas’ asserted claims of ownership to technology allowing access...  show all text

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Creating a legal entity for your startup will establish much-needed separation between you and your business. Shielding your personal assets is the first and foremost reason to think about incorporating. But let’s face it. When it comes down to choosing a business structure, small business owners are typically concerned about one thing: taxes. There are a whole host of reasons to incorporate as a C Corporation. For example, the C Corp is the preferred structure if you intend on seeking VC fundi...  show all text

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Most people who start this article won’t make it to the end — at least not in a way that they could pass a comprehension test. Studies have shown that the mere presence of a links in online text and the practice of jumping between digital documents impede understanding. Others have determined we read faster when we’re online and that switching between tasks — as we are likely to do while pinging, tweeting and browsing — leads us to overlook important information. These factors make it difficult...  show all text

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Ted Williams, the former homeless man with the golden voice who hit YouTube fame in early 2011, is back for a Twitter-based Valentine’s Day campaign for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. From Feb. 12 to 14, Williams will shoot up to 100 videos for the brand’s “Golden Voice of Love” campaign. The videos will feature Williams applying his sonorous tones to reads of selected tweets using the hashtag “#VoiceOfLove,” which Twitter users can send to their paramours. (@kraftmacncheese will tweet messages to the  show all text

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Social commerce has grown in leaps and bounds from a nascent industry in 2010 to projected $9 billion this year, and expected to reach to $14 billion in 2013, according to Booze Alan. The team at Awareness, Inc. set out to discover the secrets behind this success and the lessons that social marketers can learn to make their programs and initiatives more successful. We are excited to bring to you our next free white paper, “Social Commerce Lessons: The 6 Social Principles that Increase Sales.”

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When you listen, read, or watch through a Facebook Open Graph app, a few of your friends hear about through the news feed, Ticker, or Timeline. Starting this week, Facebook is allowing advertisers to pay for more exposure of listen, read, or watch stories that mention them by turning the stories into a new form of Sponsored Story social ads. Open Graph action Sponsored Stories could further Facebook’s goal of turn all ads social, and boost revenue by filling the new inventory from Facebook now ...  show all text

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The latest wave of online dating sites forgoes mysterious equations in favor of straightforward, sometimes unexpected, matching techniques. Whereas Match.com, eHarmony and OkCupid promise to calculate your ideal mate based on your actions and stated preferences, these new sites use some interesting new criteria such as common friends, activities, alma mater or even face structure to make matches. A team commissioned by the Association of Psychological Science recently deemed the purely algorith...  show all text

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One out of Two (49.5%) will be “far less likely buy anything from that company”, when the consumer would have gone prior to the company’s Facebook page, and seen a bunch of unanswered questions or complaints from customers. The argument continues –“If I ever needed customer care, I’d likely be ignored as well.”

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In a few weeks, Apple will unveil the next generation iPad, John Packowski of AllThingsD confirms today. If history (and carrier code) is any indication, it should go on sale shortly after that. Maybe even just a few days later. And that’s interesting because it doesn’t give developers a lot of time to prepare. And they’ll want to prepare for the higher resolution “Retina” display that the device will pack. The situation is similar to the Summer of 2010. That year at WWDC, Apple unveiled the iP...  show all text

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Think about how you’ll describe social media to friends and family in 50 years. Now, watch this “Future Hipsters” video in which badass elderly folks show us how silly all things social media really could sound. “You could get away with anything in those days,” one dude says. “I built an app that did absolutely nothing.” That’s just one thought-provoking quip from the slick video that also pokes fun at QR codes, community mangers and online relationship status updates. Entrinsic, a social media...  show all text

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Twitter has announced a new partnership with major satellite providers to give their subscribers access to Twitter SMS, the original text-based Twitter service. According to a statement released Thursday, the company has partnered with Iridium and Thuraya, the world’s two largest satellite providers, to increase the number of people that can use Twitter SMS worldwide. The company said the new partnership will help guarantee greater global access to the microblogging network. “Now, even if phone...  show all text

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Policy. It can be a dirty word, especially in social media communities. Why? Poorly written social media policies restrict, deter and deaden social media engagement–the exact opposite of what businesses want. However, great social media policies support, protect and empower high-quality engagement. It is about empowerment and trust. As Beth Kanter writers, “Trust is cheaper than control.” This article will explain how social media policies differ from other policies and give you 10 tips to help...  show all text

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