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Reuters - The United States plans to open a "virtual embassy" for Iran that will give Iranians online information about visas and student exchange programs despite the lack of formal diplomatic ties, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
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U.S. plans "virtual embassy" for Iran: Clinton (Reuters)
FCC set to unveil rules for rural broadband fund (AP)
AP - Federal regulators are set to reveal their plan Thursday for an overhaul of the $8 billion fund that subsidizes phone service in rural areas and for the poor, with the goal of redirecting the money toward broadband expansion.
App downloads dropped in September ahead of iPhone 4S launch (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Fewer apps were downloaded from the iTunes App Store in September 2011 than at any point during the rest of the year. Blame the iPhone 4S.
Analysis: Agreement seen distant at London cyber conference (Reuters)
Reuters - When ministers, officials, tech executives, Internet activists and security experts meet in London next week to discuss the management of cyberspace, they will be taking some of the first steps down a very long road.
Nintendo H1 recurring loss seen at $1.32 billion: report (Reuters)
Reuters - Nintendo Co is expected to post a recurring loss of about 100 billion yen ($1.32 billion) in the first half ending on September 30, much worse than the 55 billion loss the company has forecast, the Nikkei business daily said on Wednesday.
China vows stricter controls on social media (Reuters)
Reuters - China will intensify controls of online social media and instant messaging tools, the ruling Communist Party said in an agenda-setting document that marks the government's highest-level reaction so far to the explosive growth of microblogs.
Cain video ad blows smoke in unorthodox campaign (Reuters)
Reuters - A campaign video showing Republican presidential front-runner Herman Cain's chief of staff blowing smoke from a cigarette at the camera drew heavy play on the Internet on Tuesday.
Google faces more government demands for user info (AP)
AP - Google is dealing with more government demands to turn over information about its users as more people immerse themselves online.
Amazon 3Q net income sinks, missing analyst views (AP)
AP - Amazon's spending on expansion will eventually help its bottom line, but right now it's costing the online retailer on Wall Street.
YouTube Trolls Power Insult-Generating Search Engine (Mashable)
Mashable - YouTube is pretty great, but YouTube commenters? Not so much. For every smart, insightful, useful comment below a YouTube video, there are usually 25 trolls either talking about genitalia, belittling the content or belittling those smart, insightful, useful commenters.
Chicago-based web developer Adrian Holovaty has put all that negativity to (relatively) good use with the YouTube Insult Generator, a website that lets you cull insults from commenters with a simple search.
Can Apple Succeed with a TV in Traditional Market? (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The rumor mill is churning about Apple getting into the television business. And none other than the engineer who built iTunes is on board to help develop the new product, according to Bloomberg.
Social Consumers and the Science of Sharing [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)
Mashable - If you're buying a car, do you check Facebook? Or do you read up on Kelley Blue Book values and scour the company website for every spec, from horsepower to miles per gallon? What about music -- do you check Top 40 radio charts or scope out what your Facebook friends are actually listening to on Spotify?
Social media has infiltrated the purchasing funnel, helping consumers make informed decisions, from what to have for lunch to where to go on vacation. Depending on the decision, sometimes you turn to your social graph, and sometimes you turn to Google. So, as a brand marketer, you want to know what online channels you should be targeting in order to reach the perfect audience for your product.
Target website crashes for second time in six weeks (Reuters)
Reuters - Target Corp's TGT.N> website crashed for the second time in six weeks on Tuesday, interrupting online shopping for the discount chain.
Findings Turns Your Ebook Highlights Into Shared Reading Libraries (Mashable)
Mashable - The act of highlighting a noteworthy passage in an ebook is being socialized by Findings, an online destination where readers can collect, share, discuss and discover such highlights from ebooks and web texts.
Findings' creators, the folks at startup incubator Betaworks, refer to their creation as a "social commonplace book," and "a platform for sharing and discovering what people are reading."
Android Market surpasses iTunes App Store in app sales for the first time (Appolicious)
Appolicious - It had to happen eventually, what with 500,000 Android devices being activated every day around the world. The Android Market has finally surpassed the iTunes App Store in app sales, generating 44 percent of all app downloads for Q2 2011.
Occupy the URL Takes OWS Protests to the Internet (Mashable)
Mashable - The Occupy Wall Street protests have spread to cities across the world. Now they're also spreading to banks' websites.
A program called Occupy the URL, launched Tuesday, will turn any website into a protest, complete with pop-up photos of Occupy Wall Street protesters. Users need only insert the URL they wish to occupy.
Google Blog Manager Flies to Twitter (Mashable)
Mashable - The woman who started and managed Google's blogs will now be shaping Twitter's voice.
For the past nine years, Karen Wickre has been senior media liason at Google, where she built the now more-than-150-strong Google blog platform. Here's how she described her role in the blogs in a 2007 interview with SearchEngineLand:
UN panel sets target to connect poor to broadband (AP)
AP - A United Nations panel has given governments a target of connecting half the world's poor citizens to broadband Internet by 2015.
The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store (AP)
AP - iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending Oct. 24, 2011:
Apple stock to jump 25 percent over next year: Barron's (Reuters)
Reuters - Shares of a handful of large tech companies including Apple Inc, Oracle Corp and eBay Inc are likely to increase by more than 20 percent over the next year, according to Barron's.
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