Tag archive: President Obama

Detailed by reports from both the campaigns of President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, Square's mobile payments hardware is being rolled out to collect campaign donations. Fundraisers are being outfitted with the small, plastic credit card reader which can be used with the iPhone, 3G iPad or Android smartphone to collect money while campaigning within neighborhoods or other commercial locations. Assuming that this… Read More

With the annual State of the Union address a matter of hours away and an election looming later this year, the White House has signed up to social networking newcomer Google+ in a bid to connect with even more voters. The move to get the White House on Google+ was announced on the White House's offical blog in a post on Friday. “On day one, President Obama made clear that this Administration is committed to public engagement and… Read More

Michelle Obama joined Twitter on Thursday and in a matter of hours has already gathered more than 200,000 followers. The first two tweets, however, weren’t from Michelle herself but from “campaign staff,” indicating that the new account will form part of her husband’s election strategy to help keep him in the White House when Americans go to the polls later this year. “We're excited today to launch @michelleobama as a new way for you to… Read More

Photo-sharing social network Instagram received an endorsement Tuesday evening that comes straight from the top — President Barack Obama is now a member. In a post to the official Barack Obama Tumblr blog, which is one of many social media elements of the president's 2012 re-election campaign, the country's “first official Instagram photo” was posted. The slightly stylized image (Valencia filter, maybe?) shows a… Read More

President Obama has signed an Executive Order to cut how much government agencies spend on technology devices, printing, swag, and vehicles by 20 percent. This new Order builds on the “Campaign to Cut Waste” that the President stated back in June. According to a White House press release, this campaign has already saved about $3.5 billion in real estate costs and $5 billion on “no bid contract” spending. Obama's… Read More

If you weren't already following President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign on Facebook or Twitter, you can now get more updates on the president's newly-launched Tumblr blog, barackobama.tumblr.com. Launched today, the blog started with a letter to fellow Tumblr bloggers, which reads: It’s nice to meet you. There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly… Read More

With the Presidential election just about a year away that means one thing, a barrage of political ads invading every inch of our lives. After Obama used social media in his 2008 election it was only a matter of time before political ads would hit Twitter. Starting today Twitter will be displaying promoted tweets for a select few Presidential candidates and national party committees. Once Twitter is able to build up its political sales team it… Read More

The White House has officially joined Foursquare. The adoption of the location-sharing social network is the latest move by the nation's highest office to connect with the American people (i.e. win over voters) in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election. Signing up for Foursquare comes at the kickoff of the president's “economic bus tour,” a three-day campaign sweep that started Monday in Cannon Falls, Minnesota,… Read More

President Barack Obama wrote and published his own tweet today on the @BarackObama Twitter account, asking the American public to “Call. Email. Tweet.” their representatives in Congress to “#compromise” on the solution raising the debt ceiling. “The time for putting party first is over. If you want to see a bipartisan #compromise, let Congress know. Call. Email. Tweet. —BO,” the tweet reads. Earlier this… Read More

Facebook’s been good to him, so why not? President Obama will make an appearance at Facebook headquarters on April 20 for a live streamed town hall meeting to “connect with Americans across the country.” Check out the Facebook event for yourself. Just yesterday, the President’s administration launched its re-election efforts on the social networking site with a designated page, and BarackObama.com has introduced additional features for logged in… Read More

Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs may soon be headed to Facebook as a senior communications official for the social network giant, reports The New York Times' Dealbook blog. The rumored high-profile hiring comes via “people briefed on the negotiations,” and has been confirmed by neither Facebook nor Gibbs. The alleged conversations between Gibbs' camp and Facebook come prior to a public offering by Facebook… Read More

In the wake of rumors that Steve Jobs has six weeks to live, additional speculation about the Apple CEO’s health has surfaced. The now infamous photos of Obama greeting the titans of Silicon Valley are missing one very familiar face: Jobs’. Now it’s sounding like that omission was intentional. According to British tabloid The Daily Mail, the White House decided not to release a photo of Steve Jobs and President Obama due to Jobs’ sickly… Read More

Talk about an exclusive get-together. According to ABC News' Jake Tapper, President Barack Obama is reportedly meeting in San Francisco today with some of the technology world's biggest players: Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Google's Eric Schmidt, GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Details of the meeting were delivered by an anonymous source, who did not say what would be covered in the meeting,… Read More

Though one might point to Bill Gates as an example of the American dream, President Obama gave a different answer during a press conference yesterday, pointing to Apple CEO Steve Jobs as a symbol of an American we'd expect to be rich, reports CNET. The statement came as Obama was answering questions about the rich and accusations that he wants to “spread the wealth.” First he spoke broadly: “What is a fact is that people… Read More

The Obama administration said Sunday it intends to nearly double the available amount of wireless communications spectrum over the next 10 years in an effort to keep up with the ever-growing demand for high-speed video and data transmission to cell phones, laptops and other mobile devices. The White House said President Barack Obama will sign a presidential memorandum Monday committing the federal government to auctioning off 500 megahertz of… Read More