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| As Facebook grows, millions say, 'no, thanks' Thu, 17 May 2012 07:38:56 GMT NEW YORK (AP) -- Don't try to friend MaLi Arwood on Facebook. You won't find her there.... |
| Activision, EA settle lawsuit over execs' leaving Thu, 17 May 2012 00:14:25 GMT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The legal battle between gaming giants Activision Blizzard Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. is over, with the companies announcing they have settled a case that accused EA of improperly recruiting two executives who oversaw the creation of the smash videogame "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2."... |
| Paralyzed woman uses her mind to control robot arm Wed, 16 May 2012 18:17:55 GMT NEW YORK (AP) -- Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.... |
| Google strives to enlighten with new search tool Wed, 16 May 2012 19:27:16 GMT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google is introducing a new tool, designed to make its search engine smarter.... |
| Zuckerberg's Facebook story is study in contrasts Wed, 16 May 2012 08:17:03 GMT When Hollywood set out to tell the story of how Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, it enjoyed the flexibility of portraying a man who, despite his social network's worldwide reach, was all but unknown to the public.... |
| Companies ask: Does advertising on Facebook pay? Wed, 16 May 2012 21:23:04 GMT NEW YORK (AP) -- Responding to extraordinary demand, Facebook said Wednesday that it would sell more stock in the company's initial public offering. But ahead of the IPO, a debate emerged between two of the nation's largest automakers: Does it pay to advertise on the social network?... |
| Poll: Half of Americans call Facebook a fad Tue, 15 May 2012 16:47:13 GMT Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network's initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network's expected asking price is too high.... |
| Viacom, Time Warner Cable settle dispute over app Wed, 16 May 2012 22:38:31 GMT NEW YORK (AP) -- Viacom Inc., the parent of pay TV networks MTV and Comedy Central, has settled a dispute with Time Warner Cable Inc. over whether its subscribers can watch shows like "Jersey Shore" on mobile devices while at home.... |
| Saverin dumps US citizenship ahead of Facebook IPO Tue, 15 May 2012 06:55:59 GMT SINGAPORE (AP) -- Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his U.S. citizenship, a move expected to save him hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes stemming from the company's impending initial public offering.... |
| Yahoo soap opera features new cast of leaders Mon, 14 May 2012 22:57:34 GMT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo's dysfunctional turnaround efforts have morphed into a Silicon Valley soap opera, one that has taken another strange twist with the Internet company's ousting of CEO Scott Thompson just four months after his arrival.... |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.