HP, Lenovo, Acer Lead Slowing PC Market - as well as my own blog posts synopsis

The world of tech is always moving. Let's take a look at which companies have been making news.

In our first little group, why don't we check out the websites taking about Starbucks and Canada:
- Starbucks For Android Brings Mobile Payments To Canada & U.K., Now Supports PayPal from techcrunch.com
- Now Android Users Can Pay For Their Starbucks With PayPal from www.webpronews.com

Small business has been getting a lot of press as well:
- Small Businesses Increasingly Turn To Small Banks For Loans: Report from www.huffingtonpost.com
- Small Business Optimism Slides in June: NFIB from www.eweek.com

Next on the list are Market share and United States.
- HP, Lenovo, Acer Inc. Lead Slowing PC Market - "Lenovos shipment growth continued to exceed the worldwide average, narrowing the market share gap with HPLenovos worldwide market share now stands at 14.7 percent, a nearly 15 percent increase compared with the second quarter of 2011" - said www.eweek.com
- Google, Bing Hit All-Time Highs In June Search Market Share [comScore] - searchengineland.com

Anything else? Well, DirecTV and MTV were in the media a fair bit:
- Viacom Fires Back at DirecTV With VH1 Style Pop-Up Video - "DirecTV customers lost access to Viacom channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and more on Tuesday at midnight ET after the two media giants couldn't reach a deal on programming fees" - said mashable.com
- DirecTV Spat Results In Takedown Of Full-Length Viacom Shows For Everyone Online - techcrunch.com

From: techcrunch.com

From: www.huffingtonpost.com

From: techcrunch.com

From: techcrunch.com

Sure Pinterest is Hot, but is it the Next Facebook? - also the best of the web

I've been warming up for a thorough examination of the most significant links of the day. I've found some interesting links on Facebook, National Labor Relations Board and Twitter.

Facebook: http://facebook.com

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So, who has been talking about Facebook? It was www.marketingpilgrim.com who wrote an article called Sure Pinterest is Hot, but is it the Next Facebook?.

What did they say about Facebook? Well...:

But is it powerful enough to become the next Facebook?

and went on to say

Pinterest is the internet version of a box of chocolates. Got that

National Labor Relations Board: http://nlrb.gov

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Next up we have a site that's been writing about National Labor Relations Board - Labor Board Member Shared Insider Secrets, Inspector General Says.

They wrote:

Terence Flynn, President Barack Obama's recess appointee to the National Labor Relations Board, violated ethics rules, the board's inspector general said.WASHINGTON -- An inspector general's investigation has found that a recent appointee to the National Labor Relations Board violated the agency's ethical code by sharing sensitive information with outside lawyers, documents released Friday show

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Terence Flynn, now a Republican member of the National Labor Relations Board, passed along "the most confidential of Agency information" while serving as agency counsel last year, the report by the labor board's inspector general said. President Barack Obama named Flynn with a recess appointment in January to the labor board, the agency tasked with enforcing labor law on businesses and unions. Prior to that, he was chief counsel to former Republican board member Brian Hayes.

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com

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Last but not least it's Limbaugh Spokesman Hits Media Matters Over Boycott from www.webpronews.com, focussing on Twitter. They made a few good points, particularly

They distribute target lists of advertiser phone numbers, email addresses, Facebook links and Twitter handles, and then they come out of nowhere, en masse, against selected advertisers in rotation

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These Media Matters mobs bear a simple message: Renounce our enemies or become one of them. . They barrage small business with threats until they cancel their advertising