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Facebook and Twitter making news social

by Ronny Kerr, March 1, 2010 | Comments

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News is now even more a continuous stream, not a discretely defined daily event

The Web is now one of the essential mediums by which Americans access their news.Though local and national TV broadcasts still serve as the top places to receive their news, 61% of Americans get at least some of their news online, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. "In the digital era, news has become ...

Awarepoint raises $10 million

by Chris Caceres, March 1, 2010 | Comments

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JAFCO Ventures leads round to accelerate develpment of new technology

Awarepoint, a developer of real-time location systems for U.S. hospitals, has raised $10 million. JAFCO Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Cardinal Partners and Venrock. This brings the company's total funding to $19 million. The San Diego-based startup offers location, status, condition and movement visibility of both equipment and people, allowing for real-time remote monitoring of ...

The Patzer solution

by Matt Bowman, March 1, 2010 | Comments

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When internet entrepreneurs want to sell earlier than VCs, maybe it's time to break up.

This weekend Brightroll CEO Tod Sacerdoti wrote that his fundraising efforts revealed VCs are afraid of entrepreneurs “Pulling a Patzer”—that is, selling the company too early for investor tastes, as many think Mint.com CEO Aaron Patzer did when he dished the company of to Intuit for $170 million to Intuit. That exit was a life-changing event for Patzer, but the ...

ChatRoulette, from my perspective

by Danah Boyd, March 1, 2010 | Comments

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Simultaneously amused and depressed by the service

I’ve been following ChatRoulette for a while now. But I haven’t been comfortable talking about it publicly. For one, it’s a hugely controversial site, one that is prompting yet-another moral panic about youth engagement online. And I hate having the role of respondent to public uproar. (I know, I know…) More importantly though, I find it difficult to respond to ...

New York Times coming to coffee shop screens

by Ronny Kerr, March 1, 2010 | Comments

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850 coffee shops, casual eateries, and airport newsstands to display NYT content via RMG partnership

About 850 video screens in the main business districts of San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston will start showing New York Times content, as part of a new deal between the newspaper company and RMG Networks, which operates tens of thousands of these out-of-home screens.Running on 14-minute loops, the presentation will consist of an article on the ...

Google now searches 'Nearby' your location

by Ronny Kerr, February 26, 2010 | Comments

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Local search gets an added feature that lets users find places and events around them

Google announced on Friday morning a new 'Nearby' search filter that will let users search for specific places in their immediate area.Using this new tool will allow users to make local-centric searches (like "things to do on st. patrick's day," "food blogs," "farmers market," or "dmv"), which will return information, events, and businesses actually relevant (because nearby) to the user ...

Pentagon: Tweet at will, soldiers!

by Matt Bowman, February 26, 2010 | Comments

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After seven-month review, Defense Department opts to let soldiers use social networking tools.

In a move that promises to transform one of the final frontiers of new media journalism, the Pentagon has decided to allow everyone from foot soldiers to generals to use Twitter, Facebook, blogs and other social networking tools on the military’s non-classified network. The decision comes six months after the Marines banned Twitter, a move that caused a bit of ...

Pandora fuels music sales

by Matt Bowman, February 26, 2010 | Comments

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Users buying $10 million worth of songs per year directly through the site.

According to Apple store downloads, your favorite music app is probably Pandora. Ironically, that’s also a darling of the music labels. Apparently the War-that-Napster-Started between consumers and the industry over a decade ago is nearing a truce. Yesterday, CNET’s Greg Sandoval noted that Pandora’s model is doing more than any-song-on-demand services like Spotify to drive sales: Russ Crupnick, an analyst ...

gWallet's new "Brand Bar"

by Chris Caceres, February 26, 2010 | Comments

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New product brings virtual offers and currency to front page of social gaming

It's nice to see a company experimenting in the social gaming space. That's what gWallet seems to be all about. The startup led by Gurbaksh Chahal has been working on creating ways to get social gamers to complete offers in exchange for virtual currency. It even launched its own venture fund to invest in social gaming companies. This week, it ...

More social music! MOG raises $9.5 million

by Ronny Kerr, February 26, 2010 | Comments

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Another Last.fm, Pandora, or Spotify seeks to seamlessly wed playback with social discovery

MOG, a young music service in the vein of Last.fm, MySpace Music, Pandora, and Spotify, has just raised a new $9.5 million round of funding. Led by Menlo Ventures, the latest round was also joined by new investor Balderton Capital.The Berkeley, CA-based startup has now raised $21.5 million to date.Seeking to offer the best online music listening experience, MOG lets ...

Apple to open 25 stores in China in 2 years

by Matt Bowman, February 25, 2010 | Comments

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Elusive goal of penetrating the country's booming market is in reach, shareholders report

Apple plans to open up to 25 retails stores in China in 2 years., according to multiple reports coming out of the company’s board meeting, from which communication devices are banned. Fortune, which gathered notes from unnamed shareholders willing to sneak in some text messages, published the rumor at about 1:43 ET this afternoon.To date, Apple has just one retail ...

Match.com acquires Singlesnet

by Chris Caceres, February 25, 2010 | Comments (2)

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Match.com looking to reverse declining traffic and overall user experience of Singlesnet

Match.com announced on Thursday it's signed an agreement to acquire Singlesnet. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.It's an interesting purchase for Match.com. In one way, the acquisition makes sense - acquire a competitor company. But in this case, Singlesnet's traffic has been in decline. Greg Blatt, CEO of Match.com admitted in a statement, "While Singlesnet's traffic is currently in ...

Facebook teen gets 15 years for sex extortion

by Ronny Kerr, February 25, 2010 | Comments

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19-year-old Anthony Stancl pleaded no contest to two felonies, using Facebook profile for sex scheme

A New Berlin, Wisconsin 19-year-old, Anthony Stancl, who pleaded no contest in December to two felonies, including repeated sexual assault of a child, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison along with 13 years of extended supervision.In 2008, Stancl, who had originally been facing up to 30 years, reportedly posed as a girl on a fake Facebook profile, which ...

Admob bites Google, jumps on Apple's lap

by Matt Bowman, February 25, 2010 | Comments

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Admob finds that iPhone users are happier, purchase more apps than Android users.

In the Apple-Google Wars, Cupertino is much better at sucking cash out of consumer pockets. While Google has the online ad market all but cornered, getting Joe Six Pack to shell out money directly has not been the Search Giant’s strong point. A study published today by Google-owned mobile ad company AdMob shows that iPhone users are willing to spend ...

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