NEW YORK (TIP): Facebook is buying mobile messaging service WhatsApp for up to $19 billion in cash and stock, by far the company’s largest acquisition. The world’s biggest social networking company said on Wednesday that […]
MINEOLA, NY (TIP): Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced February 18, that the Long Beach International Film Festival (LBIFF) will begin on July 31st 2014, and will extend into a four day long festival. […]
SAN JOSE (TIP): US Congressional election in Silicon Valley this year was being seen as a two-person race between incumbent Congressman Mike Honda (Democrat) and his main challenger Rohit “Ro” Khanna (Democrat) until recently. It […]
SAN ANTONIO, TX (TIP): Two same-sex couples, including one from Plano, asked a federal judge Wednesday, February 12 to stay Texas’ constitutional ban on gay marriage so one can wed and the other can have […]
HOUSTON (TIP): After spending nearly two years criss-crossing the world, Leanne Hecht Bearden’s adventures — and life — ended abruptly in woods near a home in central Texas. Authorities announced Thursday, February 13 that a […]
NEW YORK: A group of Indian students at Columbia University here has launched a website focused exclusively on India’s upcoming general elections, promising to provide a comprehensive and “no high-brow and jargon-led” reportage of the […]
For some young professionals in East Dallas, networking is not just about the people they can meet, it’s about the people they help. Over the past couple of years, the area has seen several new […]
BENGALURU (TIP): After Facebook’s acquisition of Bangalore-based Little Eye Labs earlier this month, it’s Google that has now bought a three-year-old startup that had two Indians — Vish Ramarao and Naveen Jamal — as co-founders […]
VATICAN (TIP): It may sometimes be a breeding ground for pornographers, bullies and hateful extremists, but the Internet received an official blessing Thursday, January 23 from Pope Francis, who called it a “gift from God.” […]
MENLO PARK, CA (TIP): Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it monitors users’ private messages. The lawsuit claims that when users share a link to another website via a private message, […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Conceding that both India and the US were leading targets of transnational terror groups, Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday sought enhanced cooperation between the two countries to “secure our cities […]
BOSTON (TIP): Security experts have uncovered a trove of some 2 million stolen passwords to websites including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo from internet users across the globe. Researchers with Trustwave’s SpiderLabs said they discovered […]
LAHORE (TIP): A young man in Pakistan’s Punjab Province has been arrested for sharing blasphemous content on Facebook, as the government launched a crackdown on the spread of such content on social media. Authorities arrested […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): An American news satire website’s play of words and comment on the security of women in India, and particularly in Assam, has evoked sharp criticism from netizens. Social media is abuzz with […]
CLEVELAND (TIP): People Educating Society (PES) in Karnataka, an educational conglomerate with universities, colleges and high schools has chosen USA Cleveland-based Club VA Social Enterprise Platform to implement outcome-based learning methodology and also to link […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): Indian American actor Vivek Shah, who sent extortion threats to several high-profile people including Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. The 26-year-old actor, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The mother of the gunman who shot dead 12 people at a US navy base this week said september 19, she doesn’t know why Aaron Alexis opened fire, but she is glad he […]
NEW YORK, NY (TIP): The iconic and history-making ‘Diwali at Times Square’ on Sunday, September 22, 2013 will witness participation of some of the biggest stars of Bollywood, the organizers, Event Guru and ASB communications, […]
BEIRUT: BEIRUT (TIP): A powerful car bomb tore through a bustling south Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of Hezbollah on August 15, killing at least 18 and trapping dozens of others in an inferno […]
AARP, Hispanic Federation, Asian American Federation NAACP, & NALEO Join Forces to bring Voting Powerhouses’ Issues to Center Stage In partnership with WXTV Univision 41, WABC, Amsterdam News, and SinoTV/1380 AM, Town Hall will focus […]
CAMDEN, N.J. (TIP): GB Check Cashing LLC, a check cashing company licensed in New Jersey, pleaded guilty Thursday, July 11, and was ordered to forfeit more than $1 million for failing to file currency transaction […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US state department’s heavy hitter for India will be an Indian origin bureaucrat, Nisha Desai Biswal, a first for both the community and the administration. President Barack Obama on Thursday, July 18, sent […]
MoneyGram Iftar Food Trucks hit New York, New Jersey and Chicago and serve free Iftar to the community NEW YORK (TIP): During the last two weekends in Ramadan, MoneyGram branded food trucks will give out […]
CAIRO (TIP): Mohammed Morsi, in office only a year as the first democratically elected leader of Egypt, was rousted from power by the military July 3 as a euphoric crowd in Tahrir Square cheered his […]
While the Social media has undoubtedly revolutionized our communication and brought the world together, there are also multiple fallouts. Social media, especially the Facebook, Twitter and their multiple avatars, undoubtedly is a great revolution today. […]
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