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Twitter is Blocked in The White House
ReadWriteWeb: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mentioned casually to CNN today that Twitter is blocked on official White House computers. Gibbs clearly doesn’t appreciate the value that can be derived from the innovative social network; he jokes about it … Continue reading
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Tagged CNN, Press Secretary, ReadWriteWeb, social network, Twitter, White House
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GeoChirp is a Cool Local Twitter Tool
Mashable: GeoChirp, is a Twitter and Google Maps mashups, doesn’t even require to register. It helps you search tweets for keywords in a certain geographic area which means you can easily see who is tweeting around you.
Nokia Buys Social Addressbook Startup Cellity
TechCrunch: German mobile startup Cellity is getting acquired by Nokia. The sale price was not disclosed, but it is not likely to be more than $10 million to $20 million. The deal was all cash…
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Tagged Business Deal, Cellity, German, mobile, Nokia, Startup, TechCrunch
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Oracle Acquires GoldenGate Software
ReadWriteWeb: Oracle has acquired GoldenGate Software Today. GoldenGate is a vendor of real-time data integration software, designed to do fast, log-based transactions of data in the enterprise…
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Tagged Business Deal, GoldenGate, Oracle, ReadWriteWeb, software
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Amazon Buys Online Shoe Retailer Zappos For $800+ Million
TechCrunch: Amazon.com has purchased hot ecommerce up-and-comer Zappos for 10 million Amazon shares or $880 million. (The Amazon release said it was $807 million, but that was based on a trailing 45-day estimate of its share price. Closing price today … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Business Deal, Retailer, Shoe, TechCrunch, Zappos
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Yahoo Acquired Email Startup Xoopit
TechCrunch: Yahoo ha acquired e-mail startup Xoopit for a reported $20 million. Xoopit essentially offers an easy way to organize and manage e-mail, having invented an indexing architecture similar to web search engines that helps users retrieve content from their … Continue reading
Microsoft To Shut Down SoapBox
TechCrunch: Microsoft’s YouTube clone Soapbox is officially shutting its doors, according to reports today. Soapbox, which was launched in 2006 as a hub for downloading and sharing user-generated videos, was never able to be a viable competitor to YouTube…
TwitCam: Tweet Live Video on Twitter
CNet: The folks at the video broadcasting service Livestream have a new tool out for Twitter users called Twitcam that lets anyone with a Twitter account start streaming their own show, complete with live chat…
Candy.com is Open After $3 Million Domain Name Sale
TechCrunch: Candy.com is now a shiny new, online store for all sorts of sweets after the domain name was sold for a whopping $3 million back in June. The fairly old-school website offers a range of lollipops, jelly beans, gum, candy bars … Continue reading
The Wearable Phone that Display Content on any Surface
ReadWriteWeb: ‘Earlier this year at the TED conference, Pattie Maes from the MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group showcased a wearable computing system that allows users to display and interact with the Web on any surface – including the human body. The video … Continue reading
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