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Facebook CEO In No Rush To ‘Friend’ Wall Street March 5, 2010

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Facebooklogofresh dalsi verze WSJ - Mar 4 - The eventual IPO of Facebook could make its founder the world's richest twenty-something. "We're going to go public eventually, because that's the contract that we have with our investors and our employees," Mr. Zuckerberg said during a recent interview. But, he added, "we are definitely in no rush." Mr

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Microsoft Announces Facebook, MySpace Partnerships For Outlook February 18, 2010

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Microsoft outlook logo EWEEK - Feb 17 - Microsoft announced partnerships with Facebook and MySpace that would see social-networking information from those services ported into Outlook, as well as the release of LinkedIn for Outlook beta. LinkedIn for Outlook will enable users to view their contacts’

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Bill Gates Surpasses 100,000 Twitter Followers In 8 Hours January 21, 2010

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Twitter bill gates account MASHABLE - Jan 20 - Microsoft founder Bill Gates joined Twitter and broke 100,000 Twitter followers in 8 hours. That’s about 12,500 Twitter followers per hour, or ~208 new tweeps per minute. FULL ARTICLE @ MASHABLE

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O2 Rings Up Jajah For $200 Million December 22, 2009

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Jajah logo nove TECH CRUNCH - Dec 20 - Last month, we wrote about Jajah being the target of a bidding war. Today, it appears that war is over, with the winner being O2, and the price being $200M. Microsoft and Cisco were two other companies that were vying to get the company. Back

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Plagiarism Forces Microsoft To Shut Social Network December 17, 2009

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Microsoft logo NZ HERALD - Dec 17 - Microsoft suspended a Twitter-like social-network released by its MSN China unit after discovering the site used code copied from Plurk, a Canadian startup. Microsoft suspended the service indefinitely and apologised to Plurk. FULL ARTICLE @ NZ HERALD

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Using the “linkfromdomain” Operator on Bing To Find Spammy Links on Your Site December 7, 2009

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Bing recently introduced a new and very useful search operator, called “linkfromdomain”. Basically it allows you to find all the web pages that a certain domain is linking to. For example, if you search on Bing for

linkfromdomain:microsoft.com

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Family Guy Actually Ended Up Helping Windows 7 December 6, 2009

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Since Microsoft’s Windows 7 “Family Guy” ads went live on 11/25, views for all other Windows videos (i.e. dry product demos) shot up an astounding 25.2%.

An aside/open question: is the whole point of these ads to be intentionally lame (i.e. “Launch Parties,” “Seinfeld / Gates”), with the ultimate goal being a lot… Continue reading

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Online Video Scores Another Big Month November 27, 2009

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Youtube logo nove CNET NEWS - Nov 25 - According to Comscore, more than 167M U.S.-based Web users watched video online during October. All told, they watched 28 billion videos. Google easily led the pack, servicing 38% of all videos Americans viewed online, with 99% of those videos watched on YouTube

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LinkedIn Opens Up API November 24, 2009

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Linkedin developers network logo TECH CRUNCH - Nov 23 - LinkedIn recently launched two-way integration with Twitter and also rolled out a plug-in to pull in your LinkedIn contacts within Microsoft Outlook. And today, LinkedIn is opening up its API to start letting developers make applications that tap into LinkedIn’s social network. FULL

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Jajah Could Fetch $400 Million In Escalating Bidding War November 11, 2009

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Jajah logo nove TECH CRUNCH – Nov 10 – Jajah, a VoIP startup founded in 2005, is now at the center of a bidding war between Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Telefónica Europe with offers ranging from $200M to $400M. Jajah's numbers are impressive: $28 million in VC funding, 25 million users across 122 countries

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Spellchecker Drives a Stake Through Vampire Words October 10, 2009

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This is a guest post by Mike Marshall. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

Ali Hale’s recent CopyBlogger post spoke about Vampire Words: the conditional words like “usually”, “typically”, “maybe”, or “generally” that can portray a lack of confidence, muddle your… Continue reading

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