Daily Archives: June 3, 2011

Google Fights Off Brain Drain With PostRank Buy

June 3, 2011
Google Fights Off Brain Drain With PostRank Buy

Google’s big push to increase its foothold in the social web is well underway. Social analytics technology startup PostRank announced Friday it has been acquired by Google for an undisclosed amount of money. PostRank’s technology scans the web in real-time for “social engagement events” like comments and tweets so that brands and publishers can...

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The Feds Are Nervous About Apple Bidding For Nortel Patents (AAPL)

June 3, 2011
The Feds Are Nervous About Apple Bidding For Nortel Patents (AAPL)

Image: AP See Also: Apple’s iCloud Will Only Work With Music You Bought From iTunes At First Android Share Surges Again, Apple Gains A Bit, RIM Destroyed Apple Hires Famous Jailbreak Developer To Work On iPhone Notifications Bankrupt Canadian telco Nortel is auctioning off a treasure trove of more than 6,000 patents, and...

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GoGrid Says Huge Growth to Blame for New CEO

June 3, 2011
GoGrid Says Huge Growth to Blame for New CEO

Earlier this week, cloud provider GoGrid announced that founder and original CEO John Keagy is leaving that post and transitioning into a new role, a decision Keagy told me this morning is the result of the company growing too quickly. According to Keagy, the company has been experiencing triple-digit growth every year (he didn’t...

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The Guy In Charge Of Facebook’s Secret Phone Project Leaves

June 3, 2011
The Guy In Charge Of Facebook’s Secret Phone Project Leaves

See Also: Facebook’s Secret Phone Is Using Android “For Sure” Mark Zuckerberg Explains Why Facebook Is Working On Phone Software: To Be A Platform, Not Just A Service Here’s The Guy Running Facebook’s Secret Phone Project In A Secret Building What’s going on with Facebook’s secret phone project? Chamath Palihapitiya, the Facebook exec who was...

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GrexIt Saves Information From Dying in the Depths of Your Inbox

June 3, 2011
GrexIt Saves Information From Dying in the Depths of Your Inbox

If you’re like most modern professionals, you conduct a lot of discussions over email. We don’t often realize it as we go about our day-to-day, but the information contained in some of those emails can have some long-term value to the organization. Even with a system of stars and labels such as what Google...

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Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya Forms New Venture Fund, The Social+Capital Partnership

June 3, 2011
Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya Forms New Venture Fund, The Social+Capital Partnership

Facebook vice president Chamath Palihapitiya will leave the company as he launches a large new venture fund called The Social+Capital Partnership, with backing from some of the worlds leading business and technology leaders. The new fund will be up to $400 million in size, he says, and will focus on a wide range of...

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How Facebook Can Put Google Out of Business

June 3, 2011
How Facebook Can Put Google Out of Business

Editor’s note: Guest author Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, an online publisher with an audience of 10 million monthly uniques, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods. He is an angel investor in media and e-commerce companies. I was surprised to...

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RIM’s Woes Worsen: Reported Delays and Slowing Sales

June 3, 2011
RIM’s Woes Worsen: Reported Delays and Slowing Sales

One of the leading smartphone companies faces a decline in market share as it works to transition to a new mobile operating system. Nokia aptly fits that description, but it’s beginning to apply to Research In Motion as well. As the company slowly changes over from the BlackBerry OS to a new platform called...

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Mobile Shopping Trends, Visualized (Infographic)

June 3, 2011
Mobile Shopping Trends, Visualized (Infographic)

Did you know that men aged 30 to 49 do more mobile shopping than their peers? Or that 50% of Groupon’s business over the next two years will come from mobile devices? Or that Starbucks has seen over three million micro-payment transactions? These are the sorts of tidbits of information that a new infographic...

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High-Profile Gmail Users Target of Chinese Phishing Scam

June 3, 2011
High-Profile Gmail Users Target of Chinese Phishing Scam

Google‘s Gmail service was the target of a massive China-based phishing scam, according to the company’s blog. The goal seemed to be the gathering not of money but information. “This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others,...

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