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Grougle? Googlepon? Rumors Anyone?
Well, this will be a nice way to tidy up the week by adding to the rumor mill that has Google actively looking to purchase Groupon. Yup, that’s right. There is some rumor mill fodder to consider but...
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Today’s Deal: Google Buys Groupon for $2.5B?
I think someone at Google might have had a little too much spiked apple cider over Thanksgiving, because rumors are heating up that the search giant just acquired online coupon service Groupon for $2.5...
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AOL & Yahoo Plan Merger? Building an “Exclusive” on…Well, Nothing Actually
Sometimes, merger and acquisition rumors are juicy, thrilling, with a sense of mystery. Other times, they’re a lame duck and you wonder why anyone–let alone Reuters–would waste the time writing the...
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Rumors Say Linkedin May Be First to IPO
Facebook may get more than its share of buzz, but Linkedin, the social media network with an eye toward business relationships, has been quietly sneaking up on the world. According to the LA Times and...
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Boom or Bubble? Twitter Valued at 100x Revenue!
Hands-up if you’d like to sell your company for 100 times your projected earnings for 2011? Sorry, it will…take a little…longer to…type this sentence…with just one hand. On the back of a recent $200...
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Conde Nast to Sell Share in Social Site? You Reddit Here First Second
It’s been almost 5 years since social news aggregator Reddit was acquired by Conde Nast. Since then, the publisher has done its best to let Reddit go the way of a Digg Dodo, but thanks to some...
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AOL Shifts from Freelance to Full-Time
Freelancers have been turning out copy for magazines, TV and online sites for many, many years. Some of the copy isn’t the best, but there are plenty of great freelancers out there who know how to...
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YouTube Adds Channels as Part of Major Overhaul
NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CW and YouTube? The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a major YouTube overhaul that will have the site acting more like a TV network than a repository for random, user-generated...
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As Twitter Slips, Potential Competitors Close In
It’s no secret that Twitter has more registered users than actual users. There are stats that say that almost half of the accounts are no longer active. Stats that show how 90% of the Tweets come from...
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Why Google’s Music Cloud Service Will Be Dead on Arrival
Depending on how you look at this, I’m either stating the obvious or going out on a limb, when I say that Google’s rumored new Google Music cloud service will be a dead man walking. Why? Here’s the...
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Facebook Caught Running a Covert Smear Campaign Against Google
Grab some popcorn and pull up a chair because there’s nothing quite like a conspiracy story that involves Facebook hiring a high-profile PR firm to spread a smear campaign about Google to the...
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Will Facebook Need to Start Its Network from Scratch?
It appears Facebook is built on a house of cards. Cards that rely on more than 4,000 MySQL “shards” or should that be sharts? According to GigaOm: …Facebook has split its MySQL database into 4,000...
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4 Twitter Product Managers Have Left the Building
Twitter is in the news for two different, but possibly related stories. First, sources are reporting that the network is close to “completing an $800 million funding deal that will include a second...
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Aol and Yahoo: Please Merge Today!
Let me preface this post by saying that I have not done any (as in zero) research as to what the financial implications of a merger between Aol and Yahoo would be. I don’t own any stock in either...
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iPad 2: How Low Will Apple Go?
There are lots of rumors flying this morning about a potential, hefty price drop in iPad 2 when the iPad 3 comes to market. On the surface, this doesn’t seem like news at all. It makes sense to...
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Uh Oh! It’s Question Whether Mark Zuckerberg Should Be Facebook’s CEO Time
It looks like we have reached the point in the continuing Facebook saga that it’s OK to questions whether Mark Zuckerberg should continue on as the CEO of the social network. For the record, I really...
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Roommate Wanted: Apply Via Facebook
The Daily is passing around a rumor that Facebook is going to get into the classified ad biz and I’m going with it because it sounds like something they would do. Though you can still place an ad in a...
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Is Facebook Getting Ready to Launch News Feed Video Ads? AdAge Says it’s So
AdAge has the scoop on a secret Facebook plan to put video ads in your news feed. And not just any ads – but autoplay ads that will begin as soon as you hit them. AdAge asked an advertising exec for...
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You Know Internet Industry News Is Slow When New iPhone Rumors Start
I am ashamed. I am about to aid and abet in one of the most heinous crimes that the online industry perpetrates on the poor unsuspecting masses for what seems to be 365 days a year now. I am going to...
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Now For Something Completely Different: Facebook Teases a Big Announcement
Gossip Girl ain’t got nothing on Facebook. The company recently sent out an invitation to the press with the promise of a big reveal on January 15 and now everyone is talking! Many tech sites think...
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