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Every email you write is an opportunity to strengthen a relationship.If, in the grind of daily business, you’re wasting that opportunity, you’re making a huge mistake.Email has become a primary means of communication inside c (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of the study, gender and age data was examined a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
(Editor’s note: John Ovram founder and CEO of Exit and Answers, a social community for entrepreneurs looking to sell their company. The story originally appeared on his blog.)Entrepreneurs tend to look for one of two types of (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
A rash of reports from the US suggests that, after 'social', 'local' may be the web's next buzzwordSeveral reports from the US make the point: local is the new buzzword in the land of web entrepreneurship. No wonder. As more (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
• News: Share savings communities make, minister urged• Gallery: 15 years of Lottery funding• Comment: Who will help the volunteers?Welcome to the daily news round-up from SocietyGuardian.co.uk****************Today's top stor (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
Microsoft Office 2010 is continuing and completing the transition that started with Office 2007, and should be an attractive upgrade for companies finally moving on from Windows XP and Office XP or 2003. And with the free bet (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Salesforce.com announced a new product today called Chatter, which it describes as Facebook and Twitter for enterprises. But during a press and analyst session at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, chief executive Ma (Read More)
The Guardian:
Filtering is keeping more unwanted messages from our inboxes – but provoking more sophisticated scams on social networks and elsewhereWhen Luis von Ahn gives talks on his work fighting spam, he likes to start by asking the au (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Salesforce.com announced today that it’s going to join the hordes of companies offering a social networking for your business. With a new product called Salesforce Chatter, companies get their own secure, private social netwo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even al (Read More)
The Guardian:
German magazine publisher Burda makes strategic investment in social networking site Xing.com German mag publisher Burda Media is buying a 25.1 percent stake in the business-focused social networking site Xing.com for a total (Read More)
paidContent.org:
German mag publisher Burda Media is buying a 25.1 percent stake in the business-focused social networking site Xing.com for a total of €48.29 million (£42.7 million, $71.9 milli (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Watch out Lexis-Nexis and WestLaw! Google’s coming: You can now read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts with Google Scholar. Expect an oligopoly (as in the legal resear (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The latest game company to raise a round of funding reflects the global reach of the industry. Chile’s Atakama Labs has raised $4 million from two Chilean venture capital funds, Austral Capital and COPEC-UC.The company hasn’t (Read More)
The Guardian:
Speakers at the London conference discuss how to use Twitter, from a tweeting Tower Bridge to brands and, well, onionsThe 140 Characters conference is presenting more than 50 speakers in 35 sessions. The speeches are therefor (Read More)
The Guardian:
Writer, broadcaster and high-profile Twitter user Stephen Fry pays tribute to campaigning users of micro-blogging serviceStephen Fry has today paid tribute to the campaigning "Twitter millions" who create stories such as the (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Bigfoot Networks has raised $8 million in an effort to expand its business of making network cards that speed broadband performance for online gamers.Bigfoot makes network cards that help gamers deal with the problem of lag. (Read More)
The Guardian:
The millions of Twitter users who make stories - I only point them in a direction, says Stephen Fry in speech to conferenceStephen Fry, speaking at the 140 Characters Conference in London, said:"There is a power of Twitter. W (Read More)
The Guardian:
Orange, which runs TV services in France, Spain and Poland, to offer tweet-as-you-watch service and integrated mobile featuresTwitter users will soon be able to tweet to each other via their TV sets while watching entertainme (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Social networking app firm RockYou has raised $50 million in a fourth round of funding led by Softbank, TechCrunch reports (No official confirmation yet from the company, althou (Read More)