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When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was named Time’s Person of the Year, the magazine was in fact reviving a decades-long theme it appropriately recognised…
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Russia’s DST backs Groupon’s rejection of Google
Alexander Tamas, partner at Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a major investor in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and Groupon, defended Groupon’s rejection of Google’s acquisition bid,…
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Google’s Groupon deal makes no sense
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Salesforce.com in major expansion drive
Salesforce.com has been on a tear this year with financial results exceeding Wall Street estimates; a massive expansion of its headquarters in San Francisco;…
ComScore: Microsoft’s Bing growing faster than Google
The latest US search engine rankings from comScore show that only Google and Microsoft grew their market share in October while Yahoo!, Ask and…
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