Copenda Planning New Features for its Social Search [Israel Media Tour] (3)
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Company Name: Copenda Founded in: 2007 Location: Tel Aviv I had the chance to interview Gadi Reichman and Tal Cohen from Copenda, the Israeli startup that offers an online social people search that allows users to find new friends and dating partners across social networks and dating sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Match, Plentyoffish, and more. Gadi and Tal founded the company with David Kariv nearly a year ago when the trio noticed a trend ...
Microsoft's online gamble could be smart bet (2)
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Analysts grumble that Microsoft is pouring a lot of its Windows and Office profits into its online efforts. CNET News' Ina Fried argues that's not such a bad thing.
Sony Ericsson sees net profits fall 97%, looks to cut 2,000 jobs (3)
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Filed under: Cellphones Sony Ericsson warned the world just over a fortnight ago that things wouldn't be too rosy when it came time to announce Q2 results, and rosy things are not. Even though the handset maker was hoping and praying to break even at the end of the quarter, net profits ended up falling through the floor to the tune of 97%. As predicted, weak sales of mid-to-high-end mobiles were blamed for the bulk ...
Mom continues to chase Prince on Free Use issue (3)
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Prince accused Stephanie Lenz of violating his copyright in a YouTube video of her child. His label has backed down, and now it's Lenz suing the artist for violating her rights.
Twitter Plays Nice: XMPP Firehose Data Feed To Gnip (30)
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Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at Foo Camp last weekend, Gnip founder Erick Marcoullier was hitting him up to give Gnip, and therefore everyone, Twitter’s XMPP “firehose.” Williams was obviously in a good mood, because I got my interview and, as I just found ...
Google acquires Russian ad company ZAO Begun (2)
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It looks like Google is preparing to make a push for serious growth in Russia — the search giant announced today that it’s acquiring ZAO Begun, a Russian contextual advertising service, for $140 million. Begun is currently owned by Rambler Media, one of the largest Internet portals in Russia. The deal gives Google a real foothold in the Russian market, connecting it to a larger network of both advertisers and publishers. Google’s press release points ...
Public Slogan-Writing Promo: What Could Go Wrong? [Marketing] (2)
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New York Life has a foolproof plan for its new online promotion: they let any member of the internet riff-raff go on their website and submit three-word slogans, which are displayed in the company's trademark blue box. Looks just like the real thing. I can see why they want some new ideas, considering what they have now. Jeez. [via Afreak]
What Will Facebook Announce at Its F8 Developer Conference Next Week? Let the Speculation Begin. (7)
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Next Wednesday is Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and speculation is swirling about what Facebok might announce at the event. Last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the Facebook Platform for Web app developers, which is now its own mini-industry. So what will Facebook announce this year? We’ve suggested that Facebook might take the opportunity to expand its open source offering, new profile product, or launch Facebook Connect. My vote is for a payments system (confirmed ...
