Lobbyists were in a tizzy over provisions of a Senate-passed ethics bill that tighten regulation of lobbying and require secretive “political intelligence” firms to register as lobbyists do.

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Officials on Wednesday assembled the pieces of a complex debt and bailout deal for Greece, but it remained unclear whether broad Greek political support, a key piece of the puzzle sought by Greece's international creditors, would be in place to finalize the accord.

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If the presidential election—coming to a polling place near you in November—is the nation’s foremost popularity contest (more than 65 million Americans voted for President Barack Obama in 2008) the ongoing battle for followers on Twitter, from a purely competitive standpoint, isn’t far behind.

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Designing for responsive websites can be a bit challenging at first because the process is so different. As designers, we’ve gotten used to building pixel-perfect mockups as our web blueprints. But responsive design takes a different approach. A designer’s role is no longer to produce a mockup and then pass it off to the developer because responsive design is not just a two step process, it is a series of revisions. Most of which are made in the browser. It is a collaborative effort between the...  show all text

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Vestas is losing both its chief financial officer and chairman after the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer reported worse-than-expected annual losses and warned of further turbulence in renewable energy markets. The Danish company reported

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After scooping up rival Cotendo for $268 million recently, content delivery and web services giant Akamai is making another acquisition today—Blaze Software. Blaze's technology helps accelerate speed of Websites, and optimizes load times while cutting bandwidth costs. Financial details of the dealn were not disclosed except that it was an all-cash transaction. As Akamai explains, there are more performance bottlenecks for website load and speed times, as richer web applications and mobile web s...

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Amit Singhal is the man who is responsible for Google web search. All the searches done on Google are technically under his watch. So when an interview was posted named The human search engine, where Mark Prigg from the London Evening Standard interviewed Amit Singhal, I got excited. The interview... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Advertise here with BSA Time to get retro back up in this place. By retro, I mean really retro, as in Apple. You are carrying around that new iPhone of yours, and no one is impressed anymore. There’s just no mojo left in it that will dazzle people, like your interaction with Siri for example. You are carrying dead weight so to speak. Well, not really, but you know what I mean, and it is not going to get any more impressive. What you need is to customize that badboy of yours. You’ve got to get...  show all text

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The chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland hit back at politicians who put pressure on him to waive a £1m bonus, warning the furore could hinder his efforts to return the taxpayer’s £45bn investment in the bank. In his first public appearance

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Just a week after winning Best Tablet Application at the Crunchies, Fotopedia is launching its latest iPad and iPhone app. The app lives up to its title Women of the World, showcasing photos of women in more than 75 countries. It was developed in partnership with the World Bank.All of Fotopedia's apps employ a similar design, creating a beautiful, color-rich interface for browsing high-quality photos from around the world. This isn't the first time Fotopedia has partnered with an international ...

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Adding to the stream of reports about how people do more and more on their mobile devices, mobile ad network Greystripe just released the results of a survey about the movie research process.The network says it recruited participants through, yes, a mobile ad in its network, ultimately surveying 248 smartphone users (including iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android) and 298 iPad users in November of 2011. It found that those smartphone and iPad owners are indeed movie goers, with 39 percent of smartp...

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After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years — a lake that may hold life from the distant past and clues to the search for life on other planets.

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Anti-consumer legislation SOPA and PIPA might be all but dead, but there isn't time to rest. There is a seemingly never-ending flow of proposed legislation, statutes and bills queued up, ready to bust down doors and storm living rooms. One of the latest involves the forced transition from analog to digital cable -- something I wrote about back in 2008. If the FCC caves to massive lobbying from the cable companies, the days of unencrypted cable stations in the US will be numbered. Cable subscrib...

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Here's a puzzler. Back in September 2011, less than 6 months ago, Jesta Digital loudly committed $15 million to establish Jesta Labs, a New York-based mobile services startup incubator. Fast forward to today, and the incubator has vanished from the face of the planet. Their website has been taken down, and we hear pretty much everyone who had anything to do with Jesta Labs has moved on.

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Vladimir Putin on Wednesday provided a window into the logic behind Russia’s vote to block UN sanctions against Syria, warning that the world faced a growing “cult of violence” stoked by western interference and raising the spectre of the Arab

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By Conan Nolan and Frava Burgess, NBCLosAngeles.com LOS ANGELES -- The abuse scandal in the Los Angeles Unified School District has angered many parents and left students heartbroken. And now there’s another issue brewing: pension payments for teachers accused of misconduct. A California public school teacher convicted of a felony can lose their health benefits, but they can still collect their taxpayer-supported pension. "They need to be fired, they need to not receive retirement," one parent ...  show all text

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Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.

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Over the past 15 years starting a new business has become easier than ever before. The daily dread of horrible bosses, annoying red tape and ringing alarm clocks that force you out of bed before God gets up is forever behind you as you make that long-awaited jump to start your own online business. Your [...] Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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Citigroup is now allowed to issue credit cards in China, we learn from Bloomberg. The move is seen as a sign that the Chinese government is caving in to U.S. pressure to ease its restrictions on the ability of foreign banks to operate on its territory. The announcement came as the World Trade Organization (WTO), [...]

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Learn how to choose the best people to follow for your company's social media networks, and which tools can make your decision easier.

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Simple PPC split testing can provide market insights that allow you to connect deeply and powerfully with your prospects. All that’s required is a willingness to think, wonder, and ask. Here are two questions to jump-start your own deep curiosity.

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In what may be the first test of Twitter‘s new international censorship strategy, Brazil is suing the company over tweets that warn drivers of police roadblocks and speed traps. The suit, filed in a federal court in Goias by the attorney general’s office, is also going after users who compose the tweets. Brazil’s government is levying fines of $290,000 until Twitter changes course. The government charges that such tweets break the law and directly endanger “life, safety and property,” CNN repor...  show all text

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Paul McCartney will offer a free live stream of his performance from Capitol Studios in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 9 on iTunes.

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“It’s like Pinterest, but…” Welcome to my inbox for the last several months. Just as the world now has a Groupon and a Birchbox for everything, so too is Pinterest creating a wake of copy-cat sites. We’re not talking about sites that merely incorporate Pinterest’s design elements. There are sites that have copied Pinterest’s style, functionality and even portions of its name. Pinterest hasn’t released user numbers, but one study found it drives more traffic to websites than Google+, YouTube and...  show all text

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