April 2010 News

Opera Acquires Email Service Provider FastMail
Opera announced today it has acquired web-based email provider FastMail.fm. Opera's offered its own email client since 2000, and now it will...
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Google Expands Tag Advertising for Local Businesses
Last week Google changed the Local Business Center to Google Places, and along with that change came some new features for local businesses. We looked at those...
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Google Gets Favorable Ruling In Rosetta Stone Case
A lawsuit filed by language software firm Rosetta Stone against Google for copyright infringement has been dismissed by a federal judge. In its lawsuit, filed in...
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Carol Bartz’s Compensation Package Tops $47.2 Million
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz may have a tough job, but this morning, it's a rare person who's arguing that she isn't well paid for it.  A regulatory filing has revealed that Bartz...
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Apple iPad Wi-Fi+3G Makes its Debut Today
If you've been waiting for it, you probably already had your calendar marked, but today the iPad with Wi-Fi +3G is here. In case anyone forgot, Apple sent emails out today remin...
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Facebook Becoming Too Big For Anyone To Question
I’ve seen a lot of angst over the past week about Facebook’s moves to open up your data to other applications. To really understand how huge these changes a...
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Facebook Enters Stickers-For-Businesses Game
The storefront windows of tech-savvy businesses may be getting rather crowded before long.  Perhaps following the example set by "People love us on Yelp" stickers...
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Study Finds Twitter Matches Facebook In Awareness
Twitter isn't some strange new thing anymore, according to a fresh report.  In fact, if you reference "Twitter" in front of someone, the odds of you getting a str...
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Watchdog Group Calls For Stronger Online Child Privacy Law
The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing today about issues surrounding the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and if it should be updated to address online da...
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Google Improves Picasa Sharing Options
Google's photo-sharing site got a fair degree more social this afternoon.  Now, users should find the process of sharing their pictures to be simpler, although Google's cho...
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Hulu Users Watched 1 Billion Videos In March
More than 180 million U.S. Internet users watched online video in March, according to the latest research from comScore. YouTube delivered video to more than 135...
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Conduit: Google’s Labpixies Acquisition Validates App Marketing Opportunities
Apps are big business. From big brands to small ones, businesses are finding creative and interesting ways to harness apps to get customers engaged, to market their products, to...
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Half Of People On Social Networks Use Their Real Name
Just over half (51%) of the people on social networks use their real name, according to a new survey by Opinion Research and sponsored by Chubb Insurance. The sur...
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LinkedIn Gets Major Upgrade in Usefulness
LinkedIn has introduced a new "Follow Company" feature as a way to (you guessed it) follow companies on LinkedIn. Now LinkedIn users can simply follow organizations to...
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Addressing The Problem Of Bullying On Facebook
Yesterday, Tony Orsini, my son's middle school principal sent a blunt letter to all parents telling us that we should ban social networks for our middle school children. I was...
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