BusinessThe Real Cost Of Social Media DisastersSocial media costs businesses up to $4 million a year. After an earlier report about the UK Ministry of defence creating a series of videos aimed to educating forces staff on the dangers of updating to Facebook and Tweeting information that could be intercepted by “the enemy” and general nasty folk.  Some key dates in the history of IBMKey dates in the history of IBM: -1911: The company that would later become IBM is formed as the Computing Tabulating Recording Co. -1914: Thomas Watson Sr., a former executive at National Cash Register Co., joins the company. Watson becomes the company’s guiding force over the next four decades. Online ad revenues hit record high in 2010PricewaterhouseCoopers partner David Silverman says more time spent online, boosted by the popularity of digital videos and social media, has helped fuel the ongoing advertising growth. Microsoft sold over 8 million Kinects in 60 daysMicrosoft Corp sold more than 8 million of its Xbox Kinect motion-sensing game system in its first 60 days since launch, outpacing its target of 5 million and outshining Sony Corp’s competing Move. Activists target Dutch website after boy arrestedCyber activists attacking organizations seen as foes of WikiLeaks briefly blocked a Dutch prosecution website on Friday after a 16-year-old suspected of involvement in the campaign was arrested in the Netherlands. PayPal says it stopped Wikileaks payments on US letterPayPal has said that its decision to stop people from using its service to make donations to Wikileaks was made after a letter from the US government. PayPal suspended payments to Wikileaks last week, and has been followed by Visa Europe and Mastercard. Google Gives Searchers ‘Instant Previews’ of Result PagesGoogle searchers can now quickly see a preview of webpages returned as a result of a query, without having to click through to see if the page is likely to give them the answer they are seeking. Do Firefox Users Pay More For Car Loans?Devin says Capital One’s online car loan rates differ depending on which browser you use to go loan-hunting. Apparently the bank’s loan-offering robot doesn’t think much of Firefox users. Discounts offered in Facebook check-in ‘Deals’If you use Facebook to “check in” to your favorite restaurants or shops, you can now expect to see rewards and discounts from companies looking to drum up business and lure in loyal customers. Cloud-based IT failure halts Virgin flightsA catastrophic systems failure at cloud-based software provider, Navitaire, a business process outsourcing (BPO) unit of Accenture, disrupted travel for 50,000 customers of Virgin Blue airlines in Australia.
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