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TechCrunch:
Last week, it was reported that AOL – amid restructuring efforts in the lead-up to the imminent Time Warner spin-off and IPO – was putting its instant messaging service unit ICQ on the block and had hired bankers Allen & Co. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from “What Are You Doing?” to “What’s Happening?” But if you want to know what’s really happening now, check out Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime Cr (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
Twitter’s been making a lot of changes lately. They’ve introduced new technologies like lists — which is kind of like a friend filter on Facebook — and a new way to share user’s Tweets. Usage on the company’s website has tak (Read More)
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paidContent.org:
AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong did a hurried Q&A session at the Paley Center this afternoon and then had to rush off to being the IPO roadshow, which starts tonight here in M (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- American Express Co. said on Wednesday that it has agree to buy Internet payment firm Revolution Money for about $300 million in a deal expected to close in early 2010. Revolution Money, launched b (Read More)
Netflash:
Email could die-out in the next ten years in favour of instant messaging, says TalkTalk. (Read More)
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TechCrunch:
Social Networking continues to be the killer app for mobile and Twitter is no exception. Loved by both handset makers and mobile networks alike the microblogging service is seen a potential driver in selling more expensive ha (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Back when I was a teenager my parents had a simple rule – I had to be home by midnight. There was a doozie of an exception, though. If I was drinking they didn’t want me to drive, so all I had to do was call home, tell them I (Read More)
New York Times:
Despite all those wild pricing plans, American cellphone users spend about 5 cents a minute on talk time and a penny a text message — lower than anywhere else in the developed world.
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TechCrunch:
Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall. What can we e (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Doctor did not take pleas for help seriously from parents of five-month-old and continued playing game, say health officialsA five-month-old baby died in a hospital amid pleas for help from his parents while his doctor played (Read More)
Financial Times:
Google plugs a key gap in its growing portfolio of communication services with the acquisition of Gizmo5, a Californian start-up that handles internet-based voice calls and instant messaging. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
IVR and VoIP provider Voxeo has raised $9 million in funding from North Atlantic Capital and the Florida Growth Fund. Voxeo develops technologies in unlocked communications, including VoIP platforms, Interactive Voice Respons (Read More)
Financial Times:
Google plugged a key gap in its growing portfolio of communication services with the acquisition of Gizmo5, a start-up in Southern California that handles internet-based voice calls and instant messaging. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Football stars will address HIV-related issues in Comic Relief-funded ads shown in run-up to World Cup in South AfricaAdvertising breaks in TV coverage of the English Premier League matches broadcast across Africa will be use (Read More)
New York Times:
DALLAS (AP) -- The NBA has released its All-Star ballot and is allowing fans to vote by text messaging for the first time. (Read More)
New York Times:
The number of text messages transmitted in the United States grew by more than 80 percent over the 12 months ended in June.
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The Guardian:
Government plan to stop sex offenders using social networking sites would breach human rights lawGovernment plans to block paedophiles from using social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been shelved because (Read More)
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