YouTube is poised to launch a tiered music subscription service that will stream audio and video, increasing the competition in a nascent market dominated by Spotify.
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Unlike a university professor editing Wikipedia articles in their area of expertise, paid editing for promotional purposes, or paid advocacy editing as we call it, is extremely problematic. We consider it a “black hat” practice. Paid advocacy editing violates the core principles that have made Wikipedia so valuable for so many people. What is clear to everyone is that all material on Wikipedia needs to adhere to Wikipedia’s editorial policies, including those on neutrality and verifiability. It is also clear that companies that engage in unethical practices on Wikipedia risk seriously damaging their own reputations. In general, companies engaging in self-promotional activities on Wikipedia have come under heavy criticism from the press and the general public, with their actions widely viewed as inconsistent with Wikipedia’s educational mission
LinkedIn a transformé la façon de recruter les cadres. Mais Facebook va devenir le canal de recrutement numéro un au monde, affirme Stéphane Le Viet, cofondateur de Work4, à San Francisco. Les employés, vendeurs, infirmières, soit la majorité des travailleurs, ne vont pas sur les réseaux professionnels », explique ce polytechnicien passé par Harvard. Depuis 2011, il propose aux entreprises des services Facebook de plus en plus complets pour recruter. « Vingt mille clients, dont Pepsi, L’Oréal ou Gap, affichent déjà sur leurs pages leurs offres et envoient des annonces ciblées telles des publicités », dit-il.
Mi-janvier 2013, Fleur Pellerin, ministre en charge des PME, de l’innovation et de l’économie numérique a évoqué le possible investissement du Fonds stratégique d’investissement (FSI), détenu par la Caisse des dépôts et l’Etat français, dans Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), la filiale de câbles optiques sous-marins d’Alcatel-Lucent. Selon elle, cette activité représente un intérêt “stratégique”, notamment en ce qui concerne “la cybersurveillance” et “la sécurité du territoire”. Pour bien se faire comprendre, la ministre s’est déclarée favorable, sans citer les Etats-Unis, “à une solution qui maintienne l’intégrité d’ASN et son ancrage national”.
The fine in Taiwan came after an inquiry by the Fair Trade Commission alleged that Samsung had hired the services of an advertising firm, OpenTide Taiwan, to help it with online marketing. Sun Lih-Chyun, vice chairperson and spokesman, told the BBC’s Cindy Sui in Taipei that its investigations had indicated that OpenTide had hired students and bloggers to post remarks about Samsung and also criticise rivals’ products. He added that OpenTide gave weekly and monthly reports to Samsung, on online remarks, which indicated that Samsung was fully aware of what was going on.
« On October 26th, the 12th anniversary of the signing of the USA Patriot Act, we’re holding the largest rally yet against NSA surveillance. We’ll be handing more than a half-million petitions to Congress to remind them that they work for us — and we won’t tolerate mass surveillance any longer ». (via A Rally Against Mass Surveillance | Stop Watching Us)
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« To foster scientific discussion and to enhance the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance, Copernicus Publications started in 2001 with an innovative two-stage publication process containing the Public Peer-Review. These interactive journals comprise of the fully peer-reviewed journal itself and an access-reviewed discussion forum ». (via Copernicus Publications – Public Peer-Review)