The Twitter account for The Associated Press was hacked on Tuesday and erroneously sent out a tweet saying there had been explosions at the White House, injuring President Obama.
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The deal with Starcom MediaVest Group, one of the largest agencies in the world, will offer advertisers tighter coordination of online and television marketing.
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Comedy Central will use Twitter to host a comedy festival. The partnership between the two companies represents the evolving relationship between television and social media.
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A missing Brown University philosophy student was mistakenly thought to be one of the men sought in the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Twitter’s idea is to recommend songs based on personal contacts as well as on what is popular among the 200 million Twitter audience.
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Following accusations that the case was being ignored by the national news media, reporters descended Monday on Philadelphia, where Dr. Kermit Gosnell was on trial.
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The service’s music feature is still hidden from the public, but it appears to be a way to learn what music is becoming popular.
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The popular social blogging site said that it would shut the multimedia news blog that it had created to report on its own community and dismiss a skeletal staff of three.
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The company hopes to weave itself seamlessly into the mobile world.
Marketers are being drawn to digital realms like social media, in which agencies in New York — home to Silicon Alley as well as Madison Avenue — are increasingly proficient.
Amazon’s purchase of Goodreads, a social media site built around sharing books, would give the online bookseller more power in determining which authors get exposure.
A division of McCann Erickson New York that specializes in social media will grow to 30 employees, and will stress interactions with consumers.
Nick D’Aloisio, a programming whiz who wasn’t even born when Yahoo was founded in 1994, sold his news-reading app, Summly, to Yahoo.
The new starring role of social media in ads signals that agencies and advertisers believe they are prevalent enough to refer to without the risk of being misunderstood.
Timothy Noah, an editor at the magazine, tweeted out that he had been fired.
The Web site, called NuevoWorld, was created by Luis Balaguer, Ms. Vergara’s business partner and the co-founder of Latin World Entertainment.
The indictment of Matthew Keys, 26, in relation to a 2010 incident of online vandalism has led to an outcry over sentencing in computer crimes.
Fanticipation, from Fandango, the online seller of movie tickets, will rank upcoming releases based on a formula that includes social media data and advance ticket sales
With Generation Listen, NPR, like other old-media companies, is working to build connections to a younger audience.
The Unicef Tap Project intensifies its use of social media to promote fund-raising for clean drinking water for children worldwide.
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