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Rumor: Apple Vying to Acquire Sony
Sony shares took an upswing as rumors began to swirl that Apple was vying to acquire the company. Reuters reported, from a...
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Google’s Q3 Lobbying Costs: $1.2 Million
Anyone interested in keeping track of Google's lobbying habits can now put a new data point on their graphs.  Consumer Watchdog reported today that the company spent $1.2 m...
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Congressmen Write Zuckerberg Over Privacy Flap
Any hope that Mark Zuckerberg had of the latest Facebook privacy flap blowing over must be fading fast.  Late yesterday, two members of the House of Representatives wrote a...
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Social Media: Power to the People?
The keynote at BlogWorld this morning was an interesting one, looking at how new media has changed the landscape of politics. Mark Penn, former Chief Messaging Architect fo...
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Google Partners With POLITICO On Technology And Politics
Google and YouTube are partnering with POLITICO to host an event on Monday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. to talk about technology's role in democracy and the political proc...
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More Voters Expect Political Candidates To Use Twitter
Three out-of-five Americans who consider themselves somewhat politically active are members of a social network, and 70 percent indicated they expect to vote in November, accord...
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Nintendo DSi XL Receives New Colors
The Nintendo DSi XL handheld gaming console, is set to have a technicolour makeover this autumn, as three bright new colours – yellow, green & blue make their way to...
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Yahoo Launches Political Site For November Elections
Yahoo News has launched “Ask America,” a new interactive and social website focused on the November 2010 elections. The site asks Americans to share t...
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SocialDeck Announces Acquisition by Google
Google continues its pattern of social gaming-related acquisitions with the acquisition of SocialDeck. Inside Social Games has...
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Zynga Buys Social Game Company Conduit Labs
Zynga, makers of popular social games Farmville and Mafia Wars, announced that it has acquired Conduit L...
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Microsoft Looks to Xbox to Help Drive Windows Phone 7 Success
Microsoft announced its first wave of games for Windows Phone 7. These will be available at launch or shortly after, the company said. Microsoft revealed the firs...
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Google Buys Game Company Slide
Update: Right on schedule, Google has now formally announced its acquisition of Slide. On the company's oficial blog, David Glazer...
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Group Accused of Politically Gaming Digg
Digg is looking into accusations that a conservative group has been gaming the site to bury content it deems too liberal. oleoleolson at AlterNet...
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Lawmakers Question Yahoo, AOL And MySpace Over Online Tracking
U.S. representatives Ed Markey (D-Mass) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) sent a letter today to 15 companies identified in a recent Wall Street Journal investigation as installing consu...
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Americans Spending More Time On Facebook And Twitter
Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and blogs, up 15.8 percent from a year ago (43% increase) according...
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