Lance Armstrong loses his title winning the Tour de France

Lance Armstrong has gone down in history as one of the most frequent winners of the Tour de France, has won seven times. However, on Thursday announced that it will stop fighting against the charges brought by the Anti-Doping Agency of the United States (USADA) against him. The Agency contends that the cyclist maintained a system of doping from 1999 to 2005. 

For Lance Armstrong "Enough is enough" - This decision has sparked a series of reactions that are easily accessible by social networks, Lance Armstrong right now is Trending Topic on Twitter, with the details of the news and of course the views regarding the announcement of Armstrong. 

The USADA pointed out that Armstrong would be stripped of his Olympic medal, his Tour de France all his titles and awards, and I was going to bike racing be banned for life. Armstrong argues that USADA has no authority to strip him of the titles. No matter who is right, there are opinions, but supporters joined Armstrong on Facebook and Twitter. Most of the reviews seemed to lean against the agency and the director, Travis Tygart. Armstrong was picking ten aid shipments per minute on Facebook, with only a handful that declares it a "cheater" - and that was before he had even published his statement, which collected more than 4,000 Likes in half an hour. 

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Ecuador gives asylum to Julian Assange

A Julian Assange have granted political asylum in Ecuador, Assange is the founder of Wikileaks. His fame is due to meet after giving a volume of secret documents from the U.S., which has to be considered by the United States as a terrorist. Ecuador gives asylum to Julian Assange under several reasons to regard him as a professional communication career as a fighter for freedom of speech, press and human rights, plus there are signs that countries are able to retaliate to the detriment security, integrity and life of Assange, apart from being assured that would not endanger the life of Assange to be extradited to Sweden or the United States, just as he could be sentenced to life imprisonment or the death penalty in a U.S. court plus some other reasons as high priority were released this morning. 

 From the news, is the name of Julian Assange one of the most used in Twitter. Julian Assange, requesting political asylum to Ecuador in Britain on June 29, after their resources and legal authorities were exhausted to prevent move to Sweden where he is accused of sexual offenses. Assange maintains his innocence and sexual assault that women say they suffered was consensual. Since then it has remained in the Ecuadorian embassy of Great Britain. 

For this reason, the approval of political asylum the Organization of American States (OAS) has called a special meeting to discuss the case surrounding the situation of Julian Assange a session takes place at 16:30 local time (20: 30 GMT) the issue of political asylum to the founder of Wikileaks, a situation relevant to Ecuador and the United Kingdom. Under Secretary for Asia, Africa and Oceania of the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry, Rafael Quintero, said Thursday that Ecuador expects the support of the continent to its decision to grant asylum to Assange. 

 While President Barack Obama says the controversy is controversy on diplomatic asylum to the founder of Wikileaks exclusive competence of the United Kingdom and Ecuador. And Wikileaks is an international media published through its website and anonymous reports leaked documents containing sensitive matter of public interest in preserving the anonymity of their sources. The site launch was held in December 2006, activity began in July 2007 and since then its database has grown steadily to accumulate 1.2 million documents.

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Google acquired Wildfire

Google acquired a company that provides software service which makes a connection between various social networks such as Facebook Inc., Twitter, LinkedIn Corp., Pinterest - Wildfire, that causing customers or users can manage their online brand and presence. Google announced the acquisition of the new Wildfire marketing company to grow more strongly in social networks. 

The advertised price was 250 million dollars, as stated in a transaction source close to the worst he has asked not to be named. Wildfire provides software that connects to Facebook Inc., Twitter, LinkedIn Corp., Pinterest and other social networks, other customers are Sony Corp Wildfire and Amazon.com Inc, and more.

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Twitter social networking most used for companies

Each year Burson-Marsteller  presents a study analyzing what kind of mechanisms and networks are used by large companies for external communications, the Global Study Social Media Check-up has been developed by the company Burson-Marsteller, with data from Visible Technologies , which is dedicated to monitoring, analysis and social media services to companies globally. One result that courage is that Twitter is social networking site most used by large companies in the world. After Twitter, the social networking sites commonly used by large companies are YouTube and Facebook. 79% of these companies has its own channel on YouTube, compared to 57% in 2011. For Facebook, the number of companies having at least one page on this platform is 74%, and in the case of the Google Network +, despite its recent introduction, and is used by 48%. 

The media Social Burson-Marsteller Global Check-up 2012, examined the Fortune Global 100 use the popular social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and for the first time, in addition to Google and Pinterest. This year, Visible Technologies provides data on the discussions of social media users online businesses. In 2012, the vast majority of companies (87 percent) are using at least one of the major social platforms to communicate with stakeholders in line with much stronger growth in business use that occurs on YouTube. 

The sample size for countries/ regions used for the study of Burson- Marsteller are: USA = 29 companies, 45 companies = Europe, Asia and the Pacific = 23 companies, Latin America = 3 companies. Comparisons were made to the first Global Fortune 100 Burson-Marsteller Study of Social Media, Social Media globally Check-up 2010, published on February 23, 2010, and the second annual Social Media global check-up, published on February 15, 2011. Data were collected by the global research team Burson-Marsteller. And along with some interesting results of this study are some important findings indicate that of the Fortune Global 100 companies have accounts in each platform more than ever, with an average of: 10.1, 10.4 Twitter account Facebook pages, 8.1 channels from YouTube, Google Pages Plus 2.6 and 2.0 Pinterest accounts. Seventy-four percent of companies surveyed have a Facebook page. Ninety-three percent of corporate Facebook pages are updated weekly. Forty-eight percent of companies are now in Google Earth Plus. Twenty-five percent of companies have Pinterest accounts. 

Each corporate Facebook page has an average of 6,101 people talking about it. About the Study The data were collected in February 2012 on the basis of the activity of the Fortune Global 100 companies, social media Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google and Pinterest Plus. The study found that there was an increase of 39 percent in the percentage of companies with a YouTube brand channel. Seventy-nine percent of companies in the study are using YouTube channel brand compared with 57 percent in 2011. These channels each average more than two million views and 1,669 subscribers. However, the study found that Twitter is the most popular platform among both companies and online discussions about these companies. 

On Facebook, 74 percent of companies allow users to "like" your page post on your "walls" and more than half (57 percent) of companies are responding to messages and comments. U.S. companies have clearly how the interaction of Facebook before European companies with 89 percent of U.S. companies that allow messages and 72 percent of U.S. companies responding back.  To access the complete analysis of these results, visit bm.com / social.

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Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Meyer

Yahoo at his pressroom has announced that Marissa Mayer will be the new CEO of Yahoo. Marisa Meyer was a technology executive who has worked at Google since the early days of it. Mayer received his B.S. in symbolic systems and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, specializing in artificial intelligence for both degrees. 

The new was first reported by The New York Times and later became known in the press releases of Yahoo. Yahoo announce his appointment to Marissa Mayer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors will be effective July 17, 2012. Coming off a run of bad times for Yahoo, its last CEO Scott Thompson came in less time than ideal for the appointment of Mayer is expected a new beginning for the long-term company in Silicon Valley. 

The appointment of Ms. Mayer, an executive with leading Internet consumers, says a new focus on product innovation to drive the user experience and advertising revenue from a major consumer Internet brands in the world , whose major properties including Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Mobile, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Search. To which Mayer said:  

"I feel very honored and thrilled to be in Yahoo!, a leading online destinations for over 700 million users. I look forward to working with the dedicated employees of the company to offer innovative, customized content and experiences for users and advertisers around the world."

And she also express her motivation by using her own account of Twitter.

Marissa Mayer was responsible for local maps and location services from Google, the company's suite of local and geographically and Google Maps, Google Earth, Zagat, Street View, local search, desktop and phones. Mayer joined Google in 1999 as its employee no. 20 and led the efforts of many of the most recognized of Google, including the development of its search product and the main insignia emblematic of more than 10 years. Mayer did some of the most successful innovations of Google, launching more than 100 features and products, including the image, the book and search for products, tools, iGoogle, Google News and Gmail - the creation of most of the "look and feel" of user experience at Google.

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Digg was sold in three different parts

Digg sold to LinkedIn, The Washington Post and Betaworks.  The social news site Digg has been speculated to be sold at $ 500 thousand, but that is specific and accurate in its remaining assets to Betaworks. While the number is actually, according to another rumor that was heard in the ballpark, the editors were TechCruch is that the total purchase price of Digg was around $ 16 million, including the price paid for IP, an acquirer previously unreported, LinkedIn. 

This pointed to a nearby spring, the Washington Post that ended up paying $ 12 million for the Digg team. And almost at the same time, the race of the LinkedIn social network paid $ 3.75 million and $4 million for 15 different patents including the patent Digg "click a button to rate a story".  Betaworks collected all remaining assets today, including the domain, code, and all traffic data for between $500,000 and $ 725k.  Borthwick and co. will license patents and LinkedIn need to run when it decides to do with those assets. Before the acquisition, the social news Digg had raised $ 45 million in funding from Greylock Partners, Marc Andreessen, founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman and other notables of the Valley. 

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Betaworks has acquired Digg

Betaworks,  has acquired the social news site Digg.com for an undisclosed amount. Betaworks’ founder John Borthwick will become the new CEO of Digg. So Digg was announced through its official blog. Betaworks founder John Borthwick will become the new CEO of Digg. The site's current general manager Matt Williams will join Andreessen Horowitz as Entrepreneur in Residence after the transition is complete Betaworks. Digg founder Kevin Rose joined Google a few months after the search engine of its most recent acquisition was updated. 


Some technology media as TechCrunch have said that there is a rumor that the price ranges at only U.S. $ 500 thousand, although it is doubtful that amount because that amount generated Digg just for publicity and has been said by the words of CEO Digg that the amount was high.Betaworks promises to take "back to the beginning"to Digg , with low budgets, a small team and rapid update cycles. None of the other employees of Digg, it seems, are moving to Betaworks. Instead, the team will take care of News.me site management. Since Betaworks is the company behind bit.ly, news.me, Chartbeat and a number of other successful products. Betaworks says Digg will soon release a new version of Digg, which will complement iPhone News.me 's, and iPad applications.

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