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Helmut Haller Dies at 73, German World Cup Footballer

Helmut Haller Dies at 73, German World Cup Footballer

By Chad Sweely October 12, 2012

For those who are into classic football history, or have been watching the World Cup since the 1960s, I am sure you are aware of who Helmut Haller was. Haller was a well-known German footballer who unfortunately passed away this …

Spammers Exploiting World Cup to Target Attacks
By · June 22, 2010

Symantec has released its June 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, which looks at the recent increase in scams containing FIFA World Cup-related messages. The World Cup is being used to target unsuspecting users, and that is expected to increase as the event goes on.

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Lakers Win Over Celtics Gets Twitter Record Tweets Per Second
By · June 18, 2010 · 4 Comments

Twitter announced today that it achieved a record 3,085 tweets per second last night as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics in the NBA Championship.

Social Media
Google Shares New Discoveries Related to World Cup Search Activity
By · June 18, 2010 · 1 Comment

Last week, as the world got ready for the World Cup, Google looked at search activity around the event. The company broke out its Insights for Search tool, along with some other internal sources to provide the data it shared.

Business
Symantec Urges World Cup Fans to Use Caution on Facebook and Twitter
By · June 14, 2010

Security firm Symantec has announced that during the World Cup it expects social media activity to spike dramatically, and predicts a concurrent rise in fraudulent activity on the web in general, and social networks in particular.

Business
Facebook’s Guide to the World Cup
By · June 14, 2010 · 1 Comment

Facebook has posted the Facebook Guide to the World Cup, which shows soccer/football fans how to get the most out of the World Cup experience on the social network. "Facebook is helping football fans make the World Cup a more social experience, a Facebook representative tells WebProNews. "Fans around the world can take part in the World Cup action by joining the more than 2.5 million Facebook users who have liked and supported their favorite teams on the Goal! Leaderboard."

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Google Looks at World Cup Search Activity
By · June 13, 2010

Google broke out its Insights for Search tool (as well as some other internal sources) to paint a picture of search activity related to the 2010 World Cup.

The World Cup’s 30 days of soccer began on Friday, and there will no doubt be plenty more related searching in the coming weeks. Google Consumer Operations Strategist Jaime Forman-Lau says:

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MySpace Offers Interactive World Cup Content Site
By · June 11, 2010

MySpace has an interactive, media and feature rich World Cup profile it’s showing off, as the event kicked off today.

"We’ve built this community for our users to act as an aggregate of the flurry of World Cup activity not only across MySpace but across the entire web including videos, live status updates and tweets via Kosmix, World Cup content from Fox Sports and Univision and much more," MySpace Manager of Corporate Communications Jessica Bass tells WebProNews.

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England Loses, Online Punters Lose Interest
By · July 6, 2006

England exiting the 2006 FIFA World Cup tournament is bad news for online bookies. Nielsen//NetRatings reports that upon England’s departure from the World Cup, page views at sports and gambling websites dropped by 20 million.

Technology
In The Newsletter
World Cup In High Demand Online
By · June 30, 2006

The BBC has handled more than 1.7 million requests to view live World Cup matches on its site, while the official site hosted by Yahoo surpasses Major League Baseball in viewership for the week ending June 24th.

Firefox Debuts In World Cup
By · June 15, 2006

As Juan, a soccer fan, plugs away at his desk job, he isn’t as distraught as he might be for having to miss his home country’s appearance in the World Cup. Juan’s Firefox browser is decked out in his national colors and fills him in each time his team scores a GOOOOOOAAALLL!

World Cup Shines On The Web
By · June 9, 2006

Yahoo dominates the global soccer showcase as the host of the official website for the World Cup, and other sites offer Cup-related services. Even though the talking heads on ESPNRadio and local sports radio shows have nothing but disdain for soccer and its occasional 1-0 scores…

Yahoo To Kickoff Mobile World Cup App
By · April 4, 2006

A deal between major World Cup sponsor Yahoo and mobile application developer Everypoint will provide real-time information about the competition this summer.

Nike And Google Kickoff Joga
By · March 20, 2006

A soccer-focused community website based on Google’s invite-only Orkut service recently launched in advance of this year’s Wolrd Cup.

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