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Groupon raising 950 million dollars, dominating its category

Dec 29, 2010
Maybe Groupon wasn't quite so dumb to turn down that 6 billion dollar offer from Google a while back. The increasingly popular group coupon site...

Apple and app developers sued for tracking people

Dec 28, 2010
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on apps tracking smartphone users - apps had access to people's unique device identifiers - it's like a...

How Flickr missed the boat that Instagram caught

Dec 27, 2010
Instagram is one of the hottest new social media platforms out there. It's all about photo sharing, super easy to use your iPhone to take pictures,...

Zuckerberg goes to China

Dec 20, 2010
Facebook is blocked in China but Zuckerberg was there to meet with the top brass at Baidu, the search engine of choice/availability for Chinese...

Facebook as retailer

Dec 20, 2010
Business Week says Facebook is about to make a major push into retail, partnering up with small companies and big companies to sell stuff on the...

"We Sing Your Tweets" (they sing your tweets)

Dec 17, 2010
Boy, I have watched way more of these than I really needed to but alas, research. Kevyn Smith and Jeremy Johnson create original very short songs...

Facebook goes down

Dec 17, 2010
Big Face (new nickname, like it?) was down for about half an hour yesterday, shutting out all users and silencing 30 minutes of valuable poking...

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YouTube to get into the content creation biz?

Dec 16, 2010
Interesting article in the New York Times cites anonymous sources that YouTube may be acquiring a company called Next New Networks (catchy and...

FacialRecognitionBook

Dec 16, 2010
In a move that should frighten nobody in the world because it's completely harmless and you should all just calm down, Facebook will start rolling...

Tons of new things on Bing

Dec 15, 2010
I'm going to punt over to Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land to give you the full rundown of new Bing features. There's a lot of them. More...