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Social analytics company Topsy now lets you search every tweet ever
This is kind of cool. Social analytics company Topsy now offers the entire history of public tweets on Twitter, meaning that anyone can now…
George Bush Snr accidentally emails Mandela death statement
The office of former US president George HW Bush has been left red-faced after it accidentally posted that South African statesman Nelson Mandela had…
Latest Snowden dump reveals NSA pays tech companies for access to networks
The US’ National Security Agency (NSA) pays big tech companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year for access to their networks. That’s according…
China’s Tencent goes all in, gives users 10TB free cloud storage
Boom. Chinese internet giant Tencent just gave its competitors a serious wake up call. You see, while the likes Baidu and Qihoo 360 have…