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The world's second largest social media website, Twitter has on Monday released the Twitter Translation Center to crowdsource translations from its users. It taps into the language skills of the more than 190 million users in order to add Russian, Turkish, Portuguese and Indonesian to its expanding repertoire of translation...

The US State Department has begun sending Twitter messages to Iranians in Farsi to reach out to Internet-savvy Iranians. Its first tweet reads: "US State Dept recognizes historic role of social media among Iranians. We want to join in your conversations." It's not clear, however, that Iranians return the sentiment,...

American Airlines Inc has launched Facebook and Twitter account with wide range of opportunities to earn AAdvantage miles. American Airlines is the first U.S. airline to launch dedicated social media channels focused on earning miles. AAdvantage Facebook and Twitter account Followers can see a variety of posts detailing ways to...

British seller, Chris Wilson of Bradford in Yorkshire was advertising a decommissioned Harrier jump jet aircraft for £69,999 went missing in action from the site leaving him and 8,000 potential bidders stunned. The outer shell of the rare two-seater T2 Harrier, a former museum exhibit, was restored by Bradford company...

PRSyndication.com launches cost-effective affordable, high-quality press release distribution and professional writing services. PR Syndication has been garnering widespread attention from entrepreneurs and small to midsize businesses seeking to outsource cost-effective PR strategy services. PR Syndication offers affordable and highly effective press release distribution that is ideal for organizations of all...

San Francisco-based social-gaming company, Zynga is seeking to raise about $250 million in new funding. Zynga has already raised $360 million from a range of venture capital and other investment firms. The company is in talks with at least one bank about raising financing as well as mutual funds and...

The California-based, music streaming and recommendation service, Pandora Media is seeking to raise about $100 million in an IPO (initial public offering). Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, William Blair and Stifel Nicolaus Weisel will handle the IPO. In the first nine months of 2010, Pandora generated $90.1m (£56m) in revenues but...

Loop Mobile With over 3 million GSM subscribers in Mumbai circle, formerly known as BPL Mobile, has announced the launch of a free Email to SMS service, and also video content priced at Rs. 0.10 per video. The push based email to SMS service, interestingly, tries to tie their subscribers...

The EESC calls on the European Commission and the other EU decision makers to introduce a simplified, results-oriented, future cohesion policy for the period 2013-2020. Genuine, flexible partnership with local authorities, social partners and other civil society organisations can only engage citizens and make cohesion policy more efficient and geared...

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