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Google takes steps to remove malware in Android Market

Marti Trewe — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:15:00 +0000

Android security In the last year, Google has taken heat for their Android Market being vulnerable to viruses and malware as their open attitude towards app developers sharply contrasts the closed door, approval-required Apple app environment. According to Google, device activations rose 250 percent year over year and the total number of app downloads from the Android Market surpassed 11 [...]

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Glassdoor’s new Facebook feature boosts professional networking

Charlene Jimenez — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:36:40 +0000

Difficult to obtain connections Pursuing career goals means something different to each person. For some, it may mean that they just need to move up a few positions with their current company. For you, it can mean that you have to start the job search all over again, as your professional goals may involve another company or industry entirely. If [...]

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15 gorgeous upholstered headboards – interior design trends

Lani Rosales — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:14:19 +0000

Beauty in the bedroom Whether upgrading your home, staging a home for sale, or simply looking for design inspiration, upholstered headboards are one of 2012′s hottest design trends, but we’re not talking your average headboard, we’re talking creative fabrics, textures, and sizes. We’re talking headboards that take up the entire wall or are so soft, you can’t help but to [...]

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Discover your most valuable Twitter follower

Charlene Jimenez — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:32:01 +0000

Why you might care who your MVF is Sometimes determining your Twitter influence isn’t solely about the number of followers you have. To be a tad brutally honest, not all Twitter followers are created equal. There are countless spammers and those who haven’t actively used the site for quite a while. And we all know how fickle some Twitter users [...]

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Sharing listing data is irrelevant if Realtors let others shape the future

Matt Fuller — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:15:59 +0000

Looking outside of real estate “As a company, we are culturally pioneers, and we like to disrupt even our own business.” Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, in a November 2011 interview with Wired Magazine. I’ve been in a real estate for a decade, and I can’t imagine a statement even close to that coming from any “leader” of the real estate [...]

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Home prices fall for fifth consecutive month

Tara Steele — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:28:25 +0000

Home prices decline in 2011 With the release of the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI®) report for December, a full-year picture is now available for all price changes in 2011. According to the CoreLogic, the HPI report reveals that including distressed sales, home prices in the U.S. decreased 4.7 percent in 2011 compared with December 2010. With distressed sales excluded, [...]

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Whiteboard eraser scans board while erasing

Marti Trewe — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:22:32 +0000

Write, scan, save Rather than developing a whiteboard that remembers what you write on it, a more sensible tech concept has been released, called the “Erascan,” which is a simple whiteboard eraser that through a memory chip inside of the eraser, scans and remembers everything being erased from the board. Keeping a digital copy of all notes is extremely useful [...]

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Why Facebook filed for IPO in the first quarter

Marti Trewe — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:06:19 +0000

Facebook’s $5 billion IPO Yesterday, Facebook filed all of the necessary paperwork to become a publicly traded company which means the company had to be very public about their inner workings ranging from their revenue (which is almost exclusively advertising dollars) to current and future salaries, as well as their growth patterns and major threats such as innovations from Microsoft, [...]

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Forecast app makes impromptu offline meetings more likely

Charlene Jimenez — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:51 +0000

Combining social networking and real life contact Social networking sites have created a way to establish and maintain relationships without ever actually having to see each other in person. But this has also created a generational belief that the best way to keep in contact with a friend is through virtual methods. Facebook is a way of sharing what you’ve [...]

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Mortgage application volume dips, lending remains tight

Tara Steele — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:28:53 +0000

Applications decrease According to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey, the volume of mortgage applications dropped 2.9 percent from the week prior, on a seasonally adjusted basis and is 4.3 percent lower than the same week in 2011. The share of mortgages that are refinances has been relatively level, coming in at 80 percent this week, down [...]

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