May 21, 2012
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Facebook may be Wall Street's new favorite water cooler topic since its historic IPO last Friday, but Google still ranks as the most talked-about IPO in Internet history, according to HighBeam Research. The research firm calculated the number of media mentions garnered by the Internet companies with the largest IPOs. From largest to smallest in dollar amounts, that list looks like this: Facebook, Google, Zynga, Groupon, LinkedIn....
In business, size does matter, especially if that size is small. Independent businesses with fewer than 500 employees represent 99.7% of all employer firms, according to the SBA’s Office of Advocacy. They...
Everyme attracted nearly half a million users in their first month of operation. Here's why they jumped to the web and Android so quickly--and why Facebook's success is good news for other social networking services.
Everyme, a heavily funded social networking service, made it big last week when they unveiled web and Android versions of their...
Long before the Arab Spring, Oscar Morales was among the first people to use Facebook to mount a successful large-scale political activism effort.
When Oscar Morales graduated college at 21 he became a civil engineer working mostly in construction in his native Colombia. Around that time he became one of the early adopters of the Internet in Colombia...
19-year-old Egyptian physics student Aisha Mustafa is someone we may see again in the media in the future because though young she's patented a new type of propulsion system for spacecraft that makes use of an obscure...
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Via Techdows: Microsoft launched its own under-the-radar social network over the weekend. So.cl, pronounced "social," [Ed note: Nuh-uh!] is a topics-based social network from Microsoft's FUSE research group, originally designed to be an academic resource for students and now open to everyone through either a Facebook or Windows Live account....
Several years ago I was in the Thomson Building in Toronto. I went down the hall to the small kitchen to get myself a cup of coffee. Ken Thomson was there, making himself some instant soup. At the time, he was the ninth-richest man in the...The clackety-clack of weaving looms has long given way to automotive and turbine manufacturing in Greenville, SC, but the little urbane city in the foothills of the Blue Ridge is also home to a growing tech community that's about to bust out.
...Does long-form journalism have an audience even at BuzzFeed, the place where 33 animals are extremely disappointed in you? The site's editor, Ben Smith, has found that it does. Now, how about that BuzzFeed book?
When Ben Smith, one of our freshly minted Most Creative...
Ubisoft's "Ghost Recon Commander," a Facebook version of the megapopular gaming franchise is one of the most ambitious games ever created for Facebook. Will other game firms follow in its heavily armed footsteps?
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is one of the most popular gaming franchises ever. Now Ubisoft and Loot Drop (John Romero and Brenda Braithwaite...
