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Start afresh to enable social-media programs

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Raising $90 million without VCs

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A big company’s use of social technologies

Chris Curtin, VP of Digital Strategy at HP, discusses how the company is developing a digital strategy that integrates social Read More

Super Bowl Twitter chatter on NYTimes

This is a very cool mashup application using time lapsed "tweets" created by the New York Times to track what Read More

The Twitter-focused SF Mobile Meetup

Ever heard of the SF Mobile 2.0 Meetup event?   Probably not, because it’s an extremely exclusive invite-only event for Read More

WidgetBucks expands to 26,000 publishers

This week, at the AlwaysOn OnMedia conference in New York, I couldn't help but bump into some entrepreneur attempting to Read More

Three fremium strategies

I'm excited to see so much attention being paid to freemium businesses lately. These are companies that generate revenue by Read More

Google’s Latitude

Google added a new feature to its Google Maps software for mobile phones this week. The feature is called Latitude Read More

The upside of fear, uncertainty and doubt

I recently caught up with Steven Elefant, a partner at Soaring Venture and an angel investor, at the Keiretsu holiday Read More

Gamefly buys Shacknews

Gamefly.com, a popular subscription based video game rental service, recently announced it had acquired Shacknews, a video game information site.  Read More

Zag’s alternative route to buying cars wins

Zag.com, a provider of online auto sales, has raised $37.4 million in venture funding today, as reported by peHUB.  In Read More

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