We first wrote about the engineers getting hired by WaPo on Monday, when rumors began to swirl that the newspaper group had bought Digg. Now the news has been made official with a post on Digg’s blog by CEO Matt Williams.

The Washington Post notes that in all, 15 engineers are joining the team. Among them, Alan Lippman, Digg’s VP of advertising products, becomes the chief scientist at SocialCode. Software developer Will Larson will become director of engineering.

SocialCode, which launched in January 2011, has offices in San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC, and Digg’s engineers will “augment” that team, which Williams says “shares our same values & culture.”

“At Digg, we have been studying social media since its inception. From Digg Social Reader to Digg Ads, we established a new paradigm for content and advertising on the web. Joining SocialCode felt like a natural next step,” Williams writes.

Products that the new team will likely work on include Trove, SocialCode’s social news platform, which powers Washington Post’s own Social Reader and Personal Post. The addition of new talent may also see SocialCode extending its reach in developing products for third parties beyond the Washington Post’s walls, although this isn’t made clear in the blog post.

(Update: A WaPo spokesperson says that SocialCode engineers will only be working on SocialCode itself — it’s a social advertising agency that works across social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, not the Washington Post itself. Trove, Social Reader and Personal Post are products of WaPo Labs, another subsidiary of the Washington Post Company.)

The Digg technical staff will be integrated with and augment SocialCode’s existing engineering team with development offices in San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C.

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Source: It’s Official: 15 Digg Engineers Are Joining Washington Post’s SocialCode

Android enthusiast blog Android Central noticed the gaffe by Big Red, and plenty of sites followed suit, posting images of the device along with the phone’s key specs. In a nutshell, if this latest leak is legit then the hot handset will boast a 1.2GH dual-core processor, 4-inch qHD Super LCD screen, Android 4.0 ICS, and HTC Sense 4.

Likely the best update, though, is the Incredible 4G’s LTE connection, which its predecessor, the HTC Droid Incredible 2, noticeably lacked. The leaked price of $299 seems very steep to me and frankly the HTC One S (T-Mobile) with its all-metal chassis and AMOLED screen looks like a better buy at $199.

In any case, the first Droid Incredible broke ground by squeezing swift Android performance into a very compact package that sported a wildly ridged back battery plate. Let’s hope this possible new Incredible lives up to its potential.

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Source: Mythical HTC Droid Incredible 4G appears, disappears

At least three analysts raised their ratings on the company’s stock.

EBay  rose $4.75 a share to close up to $40.62, the first time the stock ended above $40 a share since October 2007. The impetus for the gains was the company’s fiscal first-quarter earnings and its full-year forecast, which eBay reported late Wednesday.

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EBay reported a profit of $570 million, or 44 cents a share, on $3.3 billion in revenue. During the same period a year ago, the company earned $476 million, or 36 cents a share, on sales of $2.55 billion. Excluding one-time items, the company would have earned $725 million, or 55 cents a share.

Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research had forecast eBay to earn 52 cents a share on $3.15 billion in revenue.

Macquarie Capital analyst Ben Schachter raised his rating on eBay’s stock to outperform from neutral, saying the results show better business execution at the company.

“We believe that product improvements, solid business management and strong [industry] tailwinds from mobile are driving [increases] to estimates,” Schachter wrote in a research note. He also set a $45 price target on eBay’s stock.

During its first quarter, eBay said sales from its PayPal online-payments business rose 32% from the year-ago period to $1.31 billion, and its Marketplaces retail sales totaled $1.73 billion, up 11% from last year’s first quarter.

Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray highlighted eBay’s PayPal gains, saying that the business “gives it a leg up” in the company’s efforts to expand more into mobile-payment services.

“Given PayPal is already an adopted platform, the incremental effort needed for a consumer to use the mobile aspect of PayPal is less,” the analyst wrote in a research note. Munster also raised his rating on eBay to outperform from neutral, and raised his price target on the stock to $50 a share from $36.

Benchmark Capital’s Daniel Kurnos raised his rating on eBay to buy from hold and also raised his price target on the stock to $45 a share from $37. In addition to growth in eBay’s payments business, Kurnos highlighted the performance of the Marketplaces retail business and believes the gains there are sustainable through the rest of the year.

For its fiscal second quarter, eBay forecast earnings of 49 cents to 51 cents a share, or 53 cents to 55 cents a share excluding one-time items, on revenue in a range of $3.25 billion to $3.35 billion. Analysts had forecast earnings excluding one-time items of 55 cents a share on $33.6 billion in sales.

EBay’s full-year outlook was seen as upbeat. The company forecast earnings excluding one-time items of $2.30 to $2.35 a share on revenue between $13.8 billion and $14.1 billion. Wall Street analysts had earlier estimated eBay would earn $2.30 a share on $13.85 billion in revenue for the entire year.

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The tasks of social work include the identification of major factors that have the most significant impact on human health, his social adaptation and family tree, possibly affecting the health of children.

However, the prevention activities carried out by medical personnel are often not effective because it does not affect the whole complex of social problems and solves them in part. At the same time not studied the effect of individual social factors and their combinations on human health, almost no studies of society and the economic condition of families, in particular provision of the necessities for human life: housing, employment, transportation, food, no studies are demographic indicators:

• incidence,
• fertility,
• mortality,
• reproduction,
• population, etc.;

not take into account local economic conditions of residence and its effect on human health.

All this testifies to the increasing role of the health system of a new type of professional activity – social work. The formation of this type of activity is due to the deteriorating health of the population that required addressing health and social issues to a new level – at the level of socio-medical work.

If you’ve been holding out for news regarding HTC’s flagship superphone, the HTC One X, today is your lucky day. AT&T just confirmed it will begin shipping the Android Ice Cream Sandwich device on May 6 for $199.

We knew the One X was slated to hit AT&T’s lineup soon but until now the details were all just smoke, mirrors, and speculation. Of course this version of the HTC One X will not feature a fire-breathing quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU like its European sibling. Still, HTC has said the 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 CPU and supporting chipset provide better battery life without sacrificing performance.

Also, just like the HTC One S, which T-Mobile will bring to the U.S. Market along with the upcoming HTC Evo 4G LTE for Sprint, the One X will boast a powerful camera and HTC’s new Sense 4.0 user interface.

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Source: AT&T confirms HTC One X coming May 6 for $199

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- Environmental legislation of the Russian Federation;
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- Methods of environmental monitoring;
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- The basis of economy, labor, production and management;
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