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Twitter buys social TV analytics company Bluefin Labs

Twitter is really taking this social television business quite seriously. Last year it partnered with research house Nielsen to launch “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating”….

A farewell to clones? China’s first Dropbox copycat closes

China’s first major Dropbox clone was created by Chinese web company Shanda back in 2010. Shanda was previously best known for its e-book store…

Chrome and Firefox talk to each other

Here is one for the developers. It’s always nice when tech companies play nice together, especially when both companies are in direct competition. Google…

Dell’s road to buyout almost at an end

It’s getting to crunch time for computer maker Dell. According to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, the company is…

Another blog for the family: AOL buying gdgt?

According to TechCrunch, AOL is looking to add another tech-centric property to the family. The word on the web is that AOL is making…

Netflix plays its $100-million ‘House of Cards’

Streaming site Netflix has set its sights on producing original content to contend with the likes of HBO. House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey,…

Emerging markets help push Wikipedia past 3bn monthly mobile users

Wikipedia has passed three-billion monthly mobile page views for the first time in its history, driven largely by growth in emerging market countries. The…

WSJ launches a possible WikiLeaks rival with SafeHouse

The Wall Street Journal has launched SafeHouse – “Securely share information with The Wall Street Journal.” It asks: “If you have newsworthy contracts, correspondence,…

Facebook could add video calls with possible Skype acquisition

Boasting a slogan that it “helps you connect and share with the people in your life”, social networking giant has lacked VoIP capability to…

Anonymous denies stealing data from Sony’s servers

According to Sony, a file under the of hacktivist group Anonymous was left its online entertainment network servers. The company hasn’t directly accused the…

Renren’s Wall Street debut off to a soaring start

China’s biggest social network, Renren, made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The company’s shares soared raising $743.4 million through…

Angry Birds creates a flap at this year’s Webbys

The winners of the 15th annual Webby Awards were announced on Tuesday. Famous for identifying the break-out stars of the year, and awarding deserving…

Internet freedom: South Africa doing poorly

As the internet grows and users become more aware of its uses and better ways to use it, so does the concept of its…

Bin Laden’s raid live-tweeter now famous

The Pakistani IT consultant who hoped for a quiet life in a summer resort town in Pakistan has become an internet sensation as the…

‘Operation Iran’ — Anonymous does not ‘forgive’

Anonymous, the free-form leaderless internet hacker group has moved in the last year from its history of being “prankster” group with actions such as…

Europe’s newspaper industry unease about paywalls

There is a growing unease rising in Europe’s newspaper industry. The troubled industry is keeping a close eye on the outcome of experiments by…

Russian search engine reveals details about anti-corruption crusader

Russia’s top internet portal Yandex said Monday it has been forced to divulge financial details about the country’s top anti-corruption crusader to the powerful…

Yahoo breathes sigh of relief: Delicious bought

After trying to unload the ailing social bookmarking service, Del.icio.us, Yahoo must have breathed a sigh of relief when on Wednesday it was able…

Become a BlackBerry App Master and win a trip to San Francisco!

Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the BlackBerry® solution and the highly anticipated BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet is offering an all-expenses-paid trip to San…

One year after the ‘Like’ button, Facebook launches ‘Send’ button

Facebook on Monday began letting members of cozy cliques formed at the social networking service share website links or photo albums without all their…

Sony’s Playstation Network still offline following security breach

Almost three weeks after an attack by the hacktivist group, Anonymous, Sony’s PlayStation Network remains offline as the Japanese electronics giant works to rebuild…

Zuckerberg, Huffington and Bieber — The online influencers

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Larry Page and Wikileaks’ infamous editor Julian Assange are among the online personalties to grace this year’s Time magazine’s list…

Nokia partners with Microsoft to retake mobile market?

Any list of the handsets that created the mobile phone industry will undoubtedly be filled with mobiles from Finnish mobile phone company, Nokia. However,…

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