12/12/12
Marketplace Tech Report for Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Episode Teaser Image:
Episode Description:
Call it a sign of the end of the world, or a sign of new beginnings...the Pope will likely be trending on Twitter today. Benedict the 16th will be tweeting official answers to followers' questions in 8 different languages. And Facebook maybe a community but it's no longer a democracy. Members were given the chance to vote on changes to the company privacy policy, and though the overwhelming majority did reject the changes--it wasn't big enough.
To view this content, Javascript must be enabled and Adobe Flash Player must be installed.
1
The Pope tweets, and Facebook users fail to get out the vote
Pope Benedict XVI prepares to send out his first tweets after officially joining Twitter, and Facebook users fail to vote on their own privacy settings in a large enough numbers for change.
Browse the show calendar
Buzzworthy
Recent comments on our stories..
Race on your resume: An invitation for discrimination?
You didn't mention the elephant in the room: age discrimination. Online applications are used to filter applicants for most openings. While...
pegordon | Apr 8, 2013 Moleskine notebooks seek growth in digital age
Listening to this segment on Marketplace put me in mind of a blog post I had posted in June, 2009. I feel compelled to post it here. It was...
sherril987 | Apr 2, 2013 Mind Games & Money: A guide to exploring your emotions in personal finance
I sign up today to let you know this article was great! It looked like a lot of work went in to building this one. In the past year this program...
rsnelso | Apr 1, 2013 The nurse practitioner will see you now
In my 33 years as a family physician I have taught nurse practitioners (NP’s) and have worked alongside of NP’s almost the entire time. It is...
jmessmer | Mar 25, 2013
Connect
Submit your Personal Finance Questions to the Getting Personal blog.
BECOME A MARKETPLACE SOURCE!
Join the Public Insight Network and help us
tell the story.
Sign Up Now or browse recent questions from
the Network below.
