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If You've Got the Money, KaChing's Got the Investors
kaChing, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and Open Table CEO Jeff Jordan, launched a web site today that aims to be a marketplace where anyone can access...
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Data-rich Internet Needs Context, New Modes of Consumption & Serendipity
Jeff Veen & Doug Bowman (L to R) Our bandwidth and the speeds at which we access the web will grow fivefold over the next few years thanks to advances in wired and wireless technology. Not only are...
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Social Network Use in the Office Could Spur Better Enterprise Technology
Social networking has generally been discouraged in the workplace, with many corporate IT departments blocking access to sites like Facebook and MySpace due to privacy concerns. But these efforts are...
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Twitter's Evan Williams Tight-Lipped About Rev Model, Notes U.S. Traffic Has...
Twitter’s U.S. traffic to its main site has slowed, CEO Evan Williams said during a talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon, but said that the company was launching new things that...
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Microsoft Inks Twitter, Facebook Data Mining Deal
Updated with detail from the Web 2.0 conference: Microsoft is set to announced this morning during the Web 2.0 Summit separate nonexclusive deals with Twitter and Facebook, deals that were first...
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Facebook Users Spend 8 Billion Minutes/Day on the Site
Facebook’s 300 million users collectively spend more than 8 billion minutes on the site each day, according to the social network’s VP of engineering, Mike Schroepfer. He offered up the number onstage...
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Google Strikes Deal With Twitter to Include Tweets in Search
Google will include Twitter’s real-time status updates into its search results, Google VP Marissa Mayer said in a blog post released this afternoon. This comes hot off the heels of Microsoft’s...
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Will the Bing/Google Twitter Deals Squeeze Out Real-Time Search Upstarts?
After Microsoft and Google announced search deals with Twitter yesterday, several startups that focus on real-time search — OneRiot, Wowd and Collecta (see disclosure at the bottom) — put on a positive...
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When and Where to Find 4G in Q4
[qi:gigaom_icon_4G] Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint today provided a timeframe of when during the fourth quarter of this year they plan to launch 4G wireless broadband service in 11 U.S. markets. Comcast...
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Facebook News Feed No Longer Just in Real Time
Facebook has just rolled out an updated version of its news feed that lets users switch between viewing a live version and an older one, where they can see what’s happened since they last logged in....
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