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How Twitter Helped Resurrect Kanye West

Kanye West's triumphant, Twitter-fueled return from exile

Private equity players bet big on Florida banks

By Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer Friday, September 3, 2010 Dan Healy and his old friend John Kanas have covered a lot of common ground since their North Fork Bank in Long Island, N.Y., became part of Capital One a few years ago. Both jumped into Florida banking by matching private equity dollars with fizzling banks. Kanas' group bought the failed BankUnited last year and recapitalized what ...

AnchorFree thrives when nations censor sites

David Gorodyansky started AnchorFree Inc. in 2005 to offer free, private Web surfing in coffee shops, airports and other places with wireless hot spots. The chief executive officer never predicted that five years later the Mountain View-based company's... Chief executive officer - World Wide Web - Coffeehouse - Business - Mountain View California

Robert Gibbs Dukes It Out On Twitter With Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs certainly isn’t shy when it comes to calling out his critics in the press — and now he’s using Twitter to do so too. Most White House Twitter accounts usually stick pretty closely to White House talking points and rarely engage with critics, but Gibbs today engaged in an [...]

Water scare probed

Twitter, cable TV messages and even the use of a town siren -- all are options to be explored as part of an investigation into last month's boil water advisory. Tuesday, representatives from St. Thomas, Central Elgin, Southwold township and Elgin-St.[...]