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Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely

Friday, July 11th, 2008

News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch said it was “very unlikely” his company would be involved in any Yahoo transaction and said Yahoo and Microsoft would not end up with any deal. SUN VALLEY, IDAHO–News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch said it was “very unlikely” his company would be involved in any Yahoo…
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Facebook overtakes MySpace globally

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

The latest comScore figures show Mark Zuckerberg’s social network has overtaken its News Corp rival for worldwide unique visitors. New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new front-runner: Facebook appears to have surpassed long-time rival MySpace…
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Police Blotter: E911 rules aid police in tracking cell phones

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Court order lets Homeland Security obtain precise location data from T-Mobile about customer’s movements in real time. Police Blotter is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Minnesota man charged with alien smuggling says data from a location tap of…
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MySpace launches developer platform, appoints COO

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The social network plans to launch its program to court outside software developers in February in a bid to widen the gap against rival Facebook. MySpace, the world’s largest online social network, plans to launch its program to court outside software developers in February in a bid…
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Waiting for the OpenSocial hammer to drop

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Veteran developer Marc Canter warns industry politics could stymie push to give social-network users more control over data. When Google announced OpenSocial a few months ago, it was welcomed as an effort to standardize the world around the notion of open social networking. But the announcement also was…
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The house that social networking built

Friday, January 25th, 2008

The Open Architecture Network’s Cameron Sinclair talks about harnessing next-generation Web technologies to proliferate affordable housing around the globe.Open-source housing for needy Forget about showy “starchitecture” from the likes of Frank Gehry. Architect Cameron Sinclair sees the future of his field in the slums, where the United Nations…
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Business execs snub Facebook

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Social networking Web site Facebook is being snubbed by a jury of CIOs because of the increasing number of “silly applications” and lack of business use. Just one of the 12 IT executives in silicon.com’s weekly CIO Jury IT user poll said they use Facebook for networking or business-related…
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