Twitter announces advertising platform

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Social networking website Twitter announced an advertising platform to enable paid tweets to be displayed at the top of search results. This new feature is called Promoted Tweets; Best Buy Co., Sony Pictures, Starbucks Corp. and Virgin America are some of the participants in this. Twitter has not allowed advertising in […]

Olympic highlights: August 21, 2008

Thursday, August 21, 2008 August 21, 2008 is the 12th major day of the 2008 Olympic games. The below article lists some of the highlights. Contents 1 Events 1.1 Women’s 20km walk 1.2 Star class sailing 1.3 Tornado class sailing 1.4 Men’s marathon 10 km swimming 1.5 Women’s beach volleyball 1.6 Men’s 400 meters sprint […]

Trailer released for Lordi horror movie

Thursday, November 8, 2007 A short trailer for the movie Dark Floors, a horror starring Finnish theatrical hard rock band Lordi, has been released. The film, set in a hospital, follows a group of people left trapped by a broken lift as they are attacked by monsters, and focuses heavily on one particular patient, a […]

Expedition 10 completes first spacewalk

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov have just completed their mission’s first space walk aboard the International Space Station. The mission lasted 5 hours, 28 minutes, ending at 1311 UTC.The two astronauts, working in Russian space suits, performed a variety of tasks. Chiao and Sharipov installed a work platform, […]

U.S. 2004 tax rates lower for those earning over $10 million, Tax Policy Center says

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 The Tax Policy Center has published a table that states that taxpayers earning more than $10,000,000 in 2004 paid lower tax rates than taxpayers earning between $1,000,000 and $10,000,000. Among other things, it breaks down the average tax rate by cash income into various income tax categories. According to the Tax […]

Why Tiger Teak Ceilings Is The Future Of Home Design}

Why Tiger Teak Ceilings is the Future of Home Design by Wooderra Makris A name to which Wooderra owns the copyright, tiger teak is a mixture of white teak (commercially known as teak sapwood) and teak heartwood. The distinctive teak heartwood carries itself in a golden brown hue, which turns into a dark mocha with […]

Exclusive report on New Zealand’s digital TV service

Friday, August 17, 2007 Wikinews has compiled the views from various politicians on New Zealand’s latest digital television service, Freeview. Those interviewed were Sue Kedgley, Jonathan Coleman, and Steve Maharey, the broadcasting spokespeople for their respective parties; the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, the New Zealand National Party, and the New Zealand Labour Party. […]

19 Winning Ways To Market Your Next Webinar}

Read An Opinion On: Retail Industry Trends Brand Strategies Submitted by: Sydni Craig-Hart One of the most challenging aspects of webinar marketing is getting people to attend your webinar (not to mention getting people to buy once they’re there!). But there’s a reason webinars are one of the most effective content marketing strategies out there […]

Woman killed on amusement park ride in New York

Sunday, July 1, 2007 A young woman was killed Friday night after an accident occurred on a gyrating ride at the Playland amusement park in Rye, New York in the United States. The woman, Gabriela Garin, was a worker at the amusement park, and had worked there for the past seven years. The accident occurred […]

Wikinews interviews Jim Hedges, U.S. Prohibition Party presidential candidate

Saturday, January 29, 2011 U.S. Prohibition Party presidential candidate Jim Hedges of Thompson Township, Pennsylvania took some time to answer a few questions about the Prohibition Party and his 2012 presidential campaign. The Prohibition Party is the third oldest existing political party in the United States, having been established in 1869. It reached its height […]