FT.com to launch rapid response news site
7th March 2012

The FT's mobile strategy sees continued success with its popular HTML5 app winning an award at the recent Mobile World Congress. Also, new to the FT's digital initiative is its "live news desk" providing FT.com users with breaking news in the financial and business worlds.

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Drop in traffic highlights problems at TechCrunch
7th March 2012

TechCrunch now seems a shadow of its former self with traffic having dropped significantly. Management differences have caused problems but it is also questionable as to whether cutting edge blogs can actually survive within large media companies.

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FINIF mini review: Part 2
7th March 2012

In Part 1 of this review, we looked at the basic premise behind FINIF, a financial informatics platform.

FINIF is not only unique in that it is one of a very few in the financial sentiment analysis niche...

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New login features
6th March 2012

Enabling easier access to full-text articles, product reviews and other premium content has been a priority for FreePint. Following development work based on subscriber feedback, we're now able to do so.

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Categories: What's your pleasure?
6th March 2012

Making relevant information visible is essential for any business, and FreePint is no exception. We've recently introduced categories of content, designed to help readers quickly identify and access the FreePint Family articles that are most useful to them.

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FINIF mini review: Part 1
6th March 2012

FINIF bills itself as an informatics platform that specialises in financial sentiment analysis and market chatter. The technology provides the capability to analyse financial data, news and opinion from sources such as Twitter, reputable news providers and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings.

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Privacy - American carrot or European stick?
6th March 2012

The US government prepares to set out its data privacy principles while Europe sees problems in its own more advanced policy. Meanwhile individuals are deciding for themselves about who has access to their own personal online data.

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Social media - normalised, crisis or chaos?
2nd March 2012

While social media platforms are increasingly being used in routine aspects of corporate life, many companies do not understand the legal obligations regarding the status of tweets, posts or blogs. The situation seems as similarly unmanageable as email did 10 years ago.

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Big data; big con?
2nd March 2012

"Big data" is the latest buzzword in IT and "enterprise search" is making a comeback but do these terms actually offer anything other than neat phraseology for what information professionals have been doing for years?

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Where did I see that photo? Try Gale or Factiva
2nd March 2012

Images and pictures are becoming increasingly important in the digital age and companies need to take note. More than 100 years of the National Geographic magazine will be archived in a fully searchable interface, and Factiva is also adding 1.2 million images to its  database.

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