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Open Text profit rises 39 percent on strong cloud services business

January 27, 2015 publisher 53-5-million, cents-per, easing-the-way, its-rapidly, officer-john, percent-rise, speaker-john, threefold-jump, waterloo

(Reuters) – Canadian business-software maker Open Text Corp reported a 39 percent rise in quarterly profit, helped by a more than threefold jump in revenue in its rapidly growing cloud services business. Net income attributable to the company rose to $74.3 million, or 60 cents per share in the second quarter ended Dec

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Social media flurry around blizzard: gripes, jokes and romance

January 27, 2015 creative although-some, included-mashup, internet, kelso2utd-wrote, laila-kearney, mayor-bill, motto, northeast, percent-rise, social-media, statue, threefold-jump

By Laila Kearney and Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fear, disappointment and even romantic thoughts about the Northeast’s blizzard of 2015 powered a social media storm that raged on the Internet on Tuesday. The avalanche picking up speed on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook included mashup photos that replaced the Statue of Liberty’s torch with a snow shovel and outfitted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a king’s fur cape and sword with the motto “Winter is Coming” from the “Game of Thrones” television show. Two of the most popular Twitter hashtags were #Snowmageddon2015 and #Snowpocalypse, although some felt #Blizzfizz was more appropriate.