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Twitter tries to spur growth with shopping and political donations

September 16, 2015 creative accept-online, build-profit, chicago, close-ties, file, massachusetts, ranked-second, world

Twitter Inc's plans to let users buy goods and make political donations through tweets offer a path to reach new customers and build profit at a time the company has struggled to increase its audience. On Tuesday, Twitter announced it has partnered with mobile payment company Square Inc to accept online donations for U.S. political campaigns

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Guyana-Venezuela border spat takes to Google Maps

September 16, 2015 publisher accept-online, build-profit, close-ties, file, girish-gupta, google-maps, heart, known-locally, massachusetts, names-on-google, oil-discovery, region-claimed, south-america, sparsely, the-former

By Girish Gupta CARACAS (Reuters) – A centuries-old territorial dispute in South America has taken a technological turn as anglophone Guyana decries Google Maps’ Spanish-language labeling of street names in a region claimed by neighboring Venezuela.

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With ‘$Cashtags,’ Twitter plays greater campaign finance role

September 15, 2015 publisher almost-no-one, build-profit, facebook, google-maps, hillary-clinton, known-locally, names-on-google, sanders, south-america, the-former, twitter

By Alana Wise and Ginger Gibson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential election campaign took over earlier this year the Twitter and Facebook accounts he had used in his Senate election races, there was almost no-one following him. Now, Sanders' campaign has 1.4 million Facebook likes – more than his rival for the Democratic nomination Hillary Clinton, who is much better known