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Big tech companies team up to combat email scams

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Windows Phone an overlooked worthy alternative to Android, iPhone

There are many smartphone users who are not giving Microsoft's Windows Phone the look it deserves. Together Android and iOS hog more than 80 percent of the U.S. market share. Android's large chunk of the market is split among ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (21) | comments 23

Online game maker Zynga prices IPO at $10 a share

Zynga is poised to harvest some cold hard cash in its initial public offering. Who knew that selling virtual cows and digital corn on Facebook would create a $7 billion company?

Technology / Business

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Facebook value gets tougher look

(PhysOrg.com) -- For most technorati ineligibles, it seemed like Wacky Math in the way that dollar signs were being placed on the value of startups in the heyday of the first dot.com bubble. When the bubble ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Investors pour $85 million into Tumblr

Tumblr on Monday announced a fresh round of funding that poured $85 million into the fast-growing online service for sharing pictures, videos, written musings and other digital snippets.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

LinkedIn's stock up 90 percent in market debut

LinkedIn's stock nearly doubled in its market debut Thursday because of huge investor demand for the first major U.S. social networking company to go public.

Technology / Business

created May 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

LinkedIn raises IPO ante amid high investor demand

Investors are clamoring to connect with the online networking service LinkedIn Corp. in the latest sign of the fervor for Internet companies that specialize in bringing together people with common interests.

Technology / Business

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

LinkedIn looking for $32 to $35 per share in IPO

(AP) -- Professional networking website LinkedIn Corp. hopes to sell its stock for $32 to $35 per share in an upcoming initial public offering. Its IPO may encourage other growing Internet services to make ...

Technology / Business

created May 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Real-time search market worth more than $30 million a day

All of those Twitter tweets and Facebook friends may have value after all, according to Penn State researchers.

Technology / Business

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

LinkedIn looks to link up with investors with IPO

LinkedIn Corp., the company behind the largest website for professional networking, plans to raise at least $175 million in an initial public offering of stock that could open the IPO floodgates for other ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AOL cracks open door to new Project Phoenix e-mail

You've still got mail - but AOL is redesigning it from the ground up to be faster and easier to use.

Technology / Software

created Nov 14, 2010 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Microsoft adds Facebook to Outlook

Microsoft added Facebook to Outlook on Tuesday, giving users of its popular email program the ability to view status updates, pictures and wall posts from their friends on the social network.

Technology / Software

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (8) | comments 2

When tweets can make you a jailbird

(AP) -- Maxi Sopo was having so much fun "living in paradise" in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook so all his friends could follow his adventures. Others were watching, too: A federal prosecutor ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 12

Microsoft to pull Facebook, MySpace into Outlook

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is taking another step toward turning Outlook, its desktop e-mail program, into a hub for information from popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

Technology / Software

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Americans spending more time on social networks: study

The number of minutes Americans spent on social networking sites nearly doubled in the past year with Facebook and Twitter enjoying explosive growth, according to a new study.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

LinkedIn

LinkedIn (pronounced /ˈlɪŋkt.ˈɪn/) is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of May 2009[update], it had more than 40 million registered users, spanning 170 industries.

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