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President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children, a move he called a first step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to provide insurance for all Americans. It was a victory for Obama a day after his nominee to shepherd his broad health care agenda stepped aside amid tax problems.

When Microsoft bought a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook back in October 2007, it paid 240 million dollars for the preferred stock, which meant that the company was valued at roughly 15 billion dollars.

:: Looking for detailed online reputation management services? Contact Andy or buy his new book: Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online ::. Every single day, someone, somewhere is discussing something important to your business; your brand, your executives, your competitors, your industry. Are they hyping-up your company, building buzz for your products? Or, are they criticizing your service, complaining to others about your new product launch? A great brand can take months, if not years, and millions of dollars to build. It should be the thing you hold most precious. It can be destroyed in hours by a blogger upset with your company. A new product launch could take hundreds of TV commercials, dozens of newspaper ads, and an expensive ad agency. It can also spread like a virus with the praise of just one customer, at one message board.

The Yankees Friday finalized a one-year, $5.5 million deal with first baseman-DH cleft Johnson, effectively extinction Johnny Damon's route in pinstripes.

The Cardinals affirm offered free point left fielder Matt Holliday an eight-year contract use get to $130 million, according to a published report.

Facebook, the popular networking site, has 350 million members worldwide who, collectively, spend 10 billion observation ace every day, checking fame hole up friends, writing on people's electronic walls, clicking through photos and recurrently keeping pace mask the drift of

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These days million of people come online and search for the information. Social networks are a big part of online life. Now online fund raising campaigns are running across social networks like twitter and facebook.

"One million of you "Like" us on Facebook. Thank you. This is humbling and awesome to say the least. We "Like" you too," wrote Times of India.

WordPress.com search engine launched before a year, after the launch of the search engine the searches made on Wordpress search engine is innumber millions. Recently Wordpress announced an a significant update: instant findability. This feature allows searcher to view all latest related post with the feature "most recent results" available on the search page.

Twitter.com is a top 50 site that reaches over 28 million U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a young adult, slightly more female than male audience.The typical visitor reads Perez Hilton, subscribes to Entertainment Weekly, and visits freeweblayouts.com.

Last week we reported that Twitter has plans to press for funds at a $1 Billion valuation. This is now no longer a rumor with WSJ confirming the case. It was reported that "investors are valuing Twitter, which has yet to generate revenue or finalize its plans for making money, at about $1 billion. A person familiar with the deal said investors are applying a similar value to Twitter as that applied to Facebook…"

With 300 million active users, it is definitely an advertising channel worth considering; but advertisers need more confidence. Nielsen, a leading market research company will bring Facebook another step closer to perfecting its advertising platform.

Jajah, an Internet communications provider, which has more than 20 million users to date, announced a third party service called Jajah@Call today. This service will enable Twitter users to make free calls to other Jajah@Call users on Twitter. But here's the catch, the call will only last for a maximum of 2 minutes.

Facebook is the best medium to connect million of people in one platform. In terms of social networking there is no doubt it is one of the easiest and safest way to connect with your loved ones. People are nowadays use Facebook as a biggest marketing tool for their business. They are creating page of their brand and post on face book. A person sees the page and if they find that page is relevant or useful for them so they like that page.

Social media marketing helps you to increase your band awareness. And it is important for companies to reach consumers, and when done correctly, tells those consumers that their brand is active and focused on communication. when we talk about social media, it is not just Facebook, Google Plus and LinkedIn that play vital, there are many other specialized social networking platforms that are dubbed as digital marketing havens and Instagram marketing is currently one of the most popular social media platforms comprised of over 800 million users to date, 60% which are between the ages of 18 and 29.

Social media users are still not very aware of the confidentiality of their personal information. More than five million Facebook users personal information was misused by London-based research firm Cambridge Analytica and influence voters in the presidential election.