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AOL and Huffington Post: Media’s possible decline?
Dan Lyons of US-based news and opinion site, The Daily Beast, nails it in his look at the AOL acquisition of The Huffington Post…
Twitter: All talk and no action on social responsibility
The San Francisco Bay Guardian (SFBG), a local newspaper, has published an editorial that recommends the city government not give tax breaks to Twitter….
Did US companies help Egyptian gov’t to crack down on internet?
Free Press, the non-partisan lobbying organisation, reports that US companies are involved in providing technology that helps the Egyptian government monitor protesters on the…
The experts strike back: Trust in social media peers waning
The core philosophy of corporate social media practice is that customers trust their peers and thus if you enable them to tweet or write…
The BBC should be adapting rather than shutting sites down
The BBC is a media organization that inspires tremendous amounts of jealousy within the media industry because of its huge budget collected from all…
Real change at Google, or just shuffling the cards?
The departure of Eric Schmidt as CEO of Google has led to speculation about changes at the company as Larry Page moves back into…
Why startups move to Silicon Valley
I’m constantly meeting companies that have moved part of their operations to San Francisco/Silicon Valley. Usually it is the CEO and/or the marketing and…
Jobs gone, ‘uncensored’ Playboy to hit the iPad
Steve Jobs is known as a big prude, banning applications and other iPad content that feature nude or sexual content on the iPad. No…
Financial Times launches ‘Tilt’, emerging-markets focused site
The Financial Times has launched a subscription based site that deals only with emerging markets called “FT Tilt“. The site describes itself as “a…
Facebook IPO: ‘Suddenly it feels like 1999’
The high valuation of Facebook on secondary share markets might be out of line with its revenues but it does show one thing: A…
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