Showing posts with label finds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finds. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Twitter Finds Itself Between A Facebook And A Google

In a post deceptively titled "Twitter as a Tech Bubble Barometer" the WSJ drops a lot of of information about the micro-messaging service, namely that Twitter is talking to both Facebook and Google about a possible acquisition according to those pesky people familiar with the matter who can't seem to keep their mouths shut. So what did the people familiar with the matter blab about this time?  Even though it made $45 million in revenue (Promoted Trends has been selling out!), Twitter lost money this year, due to hiring and buying datacenters.

Twitter Finds Itself Between A Facebook And A Google


Backlink: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Z0EcGBDknD0/

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Software Finds Plagiarism In Research

shmG writes "Researchers from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute have created a seek-and-destroy program — for plagiarism. Called ET Blast, it's designed to find plagiarism in scientific papers, It does a full-text analysis, and then looks for similar publications in several databases. "We have better literature," Garner said. "There are abstracts and full papers, and a database called Crisp, where you compare stuff to every grant the NIH gets. It's compared to any research that's been funded.""