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Microsoft’s new Outlook: a home-grown hammer in Hotmail’s coffin
Hotmail’s been the wheezing old collie of the email world for a few years now: we all acknowledge that it doesn’t really serve any…
Twitter behind UK journo’s suspension over Olympic complaint [update]
US broadcaster NBC’s coverage of the Olympic Games has been controversial enough to cause a social uproar all of its own. Then UK journalist…
Twitter’s Cashtags: a clone and a broken promise?
If you’re into the stock market and Twitter, then you’re probably stoked about the fact that you can now click on stock market ticker…
Baidu, Sina team up to share mobile and search content
Two of China’s most influential online powers, Baidu and Sina, are teaming up in a partnership that will see them swapping cloud-based and mobile…
Where are you on the map of the internet?
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Mountain Lion hits 3m downloads in 4 days
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Business Day goes ‘digital first’, erects paywall
Business Day, a leading South African newspaper, is set to make the leap from “paper first” to “digital first” before eventually erecting a paywall…
Sina Weibo went crazy for Olympic opening ceremony: 119m messages sent
Turns out users of Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo took to the first ever “social Olympics” with a gusto. During the opening ceremony alone,…
Apple nabs Samsung, LG security provider for $356m
This is interesting. Apple has just forked out US$365-million for security company AuthenTec Inc. In an 8-k filing the company says that it entered…
Facebook’s first earnings report exactly as expected, stock price falls anyway
Well there’s one for the books. The analysts were pretty much dead on the money when it came to Facebook’s first earnings call as…
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