Daily Archives: September 14, 2011

Dribbble launches job listing section as a part of its Backboard

September 14, 2011
Dribbble launches job listing section as a part of its Backboard

Popular design community and sharing site Dribbble is adding a new Jobs section to its promotional section called Backboard today, where companies looking to hire designers can post jobs that are available. Dribbble describes its unique approach to a job board: True to our minimalist style, job ads represent the simplest thing that (we...

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FCC set to trial first database for Super Wi-Fi

September 14, 2011

Call it what you want, but Super Wi-Fi, or white spaces broadband, just got a big win today when the Federal Communications Commission approved the first trial using the radio and database needed to deliver white spaces broadband. The FCC said on Wednesday that it would publicly test the database operated by Spectrum Bridge...

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Microsoft Can Only Keep Growing The Hard Way: By Clawing For Market Share (MSFT)

September 14, 2011
Microsoft Can Only Keep Growing The Hard Way: By Clawing For Market Share (MSFT)

Image: AP See Also: Ballmer Lays Out The 7 Most Important Products For Microsoft Steve Ballmer Just Gave A Shout-Out To Zune Microsoft Still Loves Yahoo, Even Without Bartz Steve Ballmer and other Microsoft execs just finished talking to financial analysts for three hours, and while they tried to paint an optimistic picture —...

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Groupon Getaways aren’t the deal they seem to be

September 14, 2011
Groupon Getaways aren’t the deal they seem to be

Groupon has made its business off selling deals that sound too good to be true: restaurant meals for half off, dirt-cheap massages and manicures, even trips to the dentist for 75 percent off the regular price. This has been a boon to consumers, especially during these difficult economic times. With its recently launched Groupon...

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Ballmer Spot-Checks Financial Analysts, Finds That 20% Are Using Paper (MSFT)

September 14, 2011
Ballmer Spot-Checks Financial Analysts, Finds That 20% Are Using Paper (MSFT)

Image: Microsoft See Also: Microsoft Takes The Wraps Off Windows 8 Even The Blue Screen Of Death Looks Sexy In Windows 8 Microsoft Shares More Info Than Apple — Why Is This Bad? When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer walks into a room to give a speech, he does a quick spot check to see...

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Marissa Mayer Teaches Us How To Pronounce “Zagat”

September 14, 2011
Marissa Mayer Teaches Us How To Pronounce “Zagat”

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the closing talk was between Michael Arrington and Google’s Marissa Mayer. As Mike noted, the two of them have been on stage together more than any other interview duo at TechCrunch events, so it’s fitting that Mike’s final interview as a TechCrunch employee is with Mayer. He focused on one...

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Twitter now in 5 new languages including Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Hindi, Filipino and Malay

September 14, 2011
Twitter now in 5 new languages including Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Hindi, Filipino and Malay

Twitter is now available in five new languages including both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Filipino and Malay. These new choices join the 12 other languages that Twitter had already supported. Twitter uses a crowd-sourced translation that uses 290,000 volunteers to translate Twitter.com as well as support pages and Twitter apps. Twitter says that...

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PayPal To Unveil New Payments Platform For Merchants, Will Include Location-Based Offers And More

September 14, 2011
PayPal To Unveil New Payments Platform For Merchants, Will Include Location-Based Offers And More

PayPal held an event today in Los Angeles for merchants to get a early look into the eBay owned payments giant’s new technologies. As CEO Scott Thompson says in a blog post, PayPal is re-imagining money and making it work better for merchants and consumers – whatever device you’re on, wherever you are in...

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Microsoft Still Loves Yahoo, Even Without Bartz (MSFT, YHOO)

September 14, 2011
Microsoft Still Loves Yahoo, Even Without Bartz (MSFT, YHOO)

See Also: Microsoft Shares More Info Than Apple — Why Is This Bad? Ballmer Lays Out The 7 Most Important Products For Microsoft Steve Ballmer Just Gave A Shout-Out To Zune At a meeting with financial analysts this afternoon, an audience member asked Microsoft executives if the changes at Yahoo would affect the two...

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Why Google Bought Zagat

September 14, 2011
Why Google Bought Zagat

Image: Wikimedia Commons See Also: Google Is Down, Bing And Yahoo Are Up, In The Latest comScore Search Data Release The Top 20 Most Popular Android Apps In The U.S. Google Has Already Begun “One On Ones” With Zagat Employees, But Don’t Call Them Interviews Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of maps and local, was the...

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