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Twitter report: gov’t info requests continue to rise

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Banckle Chat Version 3.0 is Released With Improved UI

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Yelp kills it in Q2, shares jump 7%

So Yelp killed it last quarter. Killed it. Shares jumped 7.3% in after-hours trading to $44.85 after the company announced Read More

Yahoo makes 20th acquisition with commerce app Lexity

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Apigee raises $35M in funding from BlackRock

Apigee, a provider of an API platform for companies, announced Wednesday that it has raised $35 million in new funding. The Read More

How to boost desire using the psychology of scarcity

Interested in boosting customer desire? A classic study reveals an interesting quirk of human behavior that may hold a clue. Read More

Starbucks to swap out AT&T WiFi for Google

Back in my angry Starbucks barista days, there was this one guy who came in every morning right at opening Read More

Chirpify raises another $4M in Series A funding

(Updated to reflect comment from Chirpify) Chirpify, a platform for in-stream commerce on social media, has raised an additional $4 Read More

Hadi Partovi’s Code.org ramps up with 3.5M students

Having chronicled the evolution of the Internet for almost two decades, it would be nice to see one of my Read More

Facebook all set to debut 15-second video ads

Remember how, at the end of last year, reports started coming out that Facebook was going to start putting video Read More

Twitter responds to U.K. abuse reporting petition

It doesn't seem to happen that often, but sometimes if enough people shout loud enough, they actually can make a Read More

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