Value Of Tech M&A D...

M&A activity in the technology sector continues to grow in terms of value. According to an Ernst & Young report released today, big acquisitions drove the aggregate value of global technology M&A to $56.5 billion in the third quarter of 2011, up 22 percent from a year ago,...
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Twitter Names Mass Rele...

Twitter today announced formal partnerships with Mass Relevance and Crimson Hexagon to allow the two companies to re-syndicate tweets for use on websites, television shows, jumbotrons and more. Mass Relevance helps clients curate the Twitter firehose so they can display the highest...
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How Google+ Could One-U...

Google today  launched the first iteration of its brand Pages product for Google+. The company has some big choices to make about how it will flesh out this skeleton to challenge the Pages product Facebook has had years to work on. Still, comparing the two visions of brand presences now...
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Animal Issues Get More ...

Non-profits targeting wide-reaching issues have embraced social media, but they have not all found equal success. This infographic, created by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark’s non-profit craigconnects, examines the impact of Facebook and Twitter activity across seven types of...
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Google Direct Connect H...

Google has rolled out a new feature called Direct Connect, which makes it dead simple for users to find and follow brands on Google+ via Google Search. Whenever a user wants to find a brand on Google+ , all they have to do is type “+” in Google Search, followed by the brand...
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What Will the Next 40 Y...

This post is supported by Intel , Sponsors of Tomorrow™ and the world leader in silicon innovation, in celebration of the world’s first microprocessor: the Intel 4004 . In the past 40 years, technology has drastically changed our daily lives. Back then, the Internet was barely in...
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Twitter Nabs Former Ora...

Twitter has just announced a key engineering hire today. Adam Messinger will be joining the company as Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering. Messinger was previously Vice President Development at Oracle, where he was responsible for managing the Oracle Coherence, Oracle JRockit,...
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Your Favorite Video Gam...

Dum dum dum dummmmm. Do do do dee dee dooot! The London Philharmonic Orchestra has just released “The Greatest Video Game Music” featuring full orchestrations of all of your favorite themes including Super Mario Brothers, the Legend of Zelda, and Halo. That’s right:...
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Unthink’s “Anti-Fac...

Unthink , the social networking platform whose marketing campaign involves a lot of Facebook bashing , has reached 100,000 registered users, the company is now reporting. As you may recall, the site quickly crashed after TechCrunch sent its usual heavy stream of traffic to the network,...
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More Mind-Blowing Real-...

Have you had your share of augmented reality this month? Between CMU’s OmniTouch , Microsoft’s HoloDesk , and Metaio’s updated AR app , you could be forgiven. But trust me, you’ll want to watch this video of Microsoft Research prototypes using pico projectors and...
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