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VEVO embarks on Brazilian adventure
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Tencent looks to grow in other emerging markets as China gets saturated
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While everyone was talking Twitter, Sina Weibo took gold in the social Olympics
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New emails from Wikileaks suggest Google, Salesforce were offered ‘TrapWire’ spy tool
Time was, a story about governments and big corporations using scary spy technology would’ve been easy to write off as the rantings of a…
WordPress claims ‘biggest update ever’ with new iOS version
Expect to see people blogging a lot more from their iDevices in the near future. WordPress today rolled out a new version of its…
Could a sunflower be key to the Apple, Samsung patent trial?
It’s an incredibly simple, but evocative image. It’s a yellow sunflower with green leaves and it’s the icon for Apple’s Photos App. The image…
China’s Sohu: losing the microblog battle, but planning a comeback
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Amazon’s social game studio has Zynga in its crosshairs
Things could be about to get a lot hairier for Zynga. The game studio is about to face competition from Amazon, after the web…
Baidu sacks employees who deleted forum posts for cash: 3 arrested
Three now former employees of Chinese search giant Baidu have been arrested for accepting bribes to delete posts from the company’s TieBa forum service….
SA airline wants you to ‘fly social’, offers free Facebook and Twitter
This is interesting. South African budget airline Mango is set to give passengers on its planes free access to Facebook and Twitter in-flight for…
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