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Zynga Delays IPO, WikiLeaks' Dangerous Leak, BBC's Olympic TV Plans, Samsung's iMessage Rival, Apple Again Halts Samsung Sales

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Twitter's Photo Galleries, India's $99 Tablet, Skype Buys GroupMe, Apple Outsells Lenovo In China, Amazon Hints At Tablet

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Struggling Nokia Shutters Stores, Sells Messaging Business To Synchronica

Nokia's recent woes multiplied this week as the beleaguered Finnish firm shuttered online stores in the U.S. and U.K., continuing a recent cost-saving trend. It also sold its Operator-Branded Messaging business, which it acquired only three years ago, to Synchronica for $25 million.READ»

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How Facebook’s Messages System Helps It Win

Unlike Gmail and other free email providers, Facebook is not going to serve up ads against the content of your messages. Here's how it'll make money anyway.READ»

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Facebook Introduces Anti-Email: Social Inbox, Seamless Messaging, Conversation History [Video]

"We don't think that a modern messaging system is going to be email," said Mark Zuckerberg, who was widely expected to introduce an email system at Facebook's press conference today. Instead, the Facebook CEO was clear: "It's not email," he said.READ»

The Persuasion Formula: Take A Lesson From The Pols

When you're trying to persuade people to take action, identify a simple, powerful message and return to it as many times, and as emotionally, as you possibly can.READ»

Threadsy Smooshes Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and More Into a Surprisingly Clean Stream

Using several different social networks can get confusing. Threadsy aggregates a bunch of them in a Web app, and mostly manages to make it compelling. It's basically a one-stop shop for online communication.READ»

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Getting the Message Out to Cable Customers with PerfTech

Here's another in our series of interesting tech companies in San Antonio, Texas. Perftech makes technology that lets cable companies communicate with their customers in a new wayREAD»

Value Messaging is on the upswing.

Is it time to look at your post-recession messaging?READ»

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Facebook Redesign Paves Way for Facebookmail: Google Beware?

Facebook is beginning a roll-out of a redesign to its Web page that places more emphasis on notifications. It'll improve things for users for sure, but it's just the first step of a plan to give Facebook serious Web emailing powers. ...READ»

Fear Public Speaking?

Unfortunately, no matter how many books, courses, DVDs, websites or snake oil salesmen promise to “cure” you of your fear of public speaking, it is never that simple, or that easy.READ»

Unconscious Conditioning Can Make or Break Your Business

We underestimate the extent of unconscious conditioning – the beliefs, habits, and perceptions we collect through experience – plays on our behavior. READ»

Google's Wave Might Find Its Real Home Inside Company Servers

Today it looks like Google's expanding Wave to external servers. If your company has an internal communication problem. If no one else can help. Maybe you can try ... the Wave team. The news has popped up over at TheNextWeb, ...READ»

Mozilla's Raindrop: Chasing Google's Wave, or Damping Digital Noise?

Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox browser, just dropped a preview of an experimental project that will integrate IM, Twitter, Facebook, email, and more into one user experience. It's called Raindrop, and it sounds a heck of a lot ...READ»

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Is 3jam Better Than Google Voice?

You've probably heard a lot about Google Voice since Apple punted it from the iTunes App Store: It's a free telephony service that allows one phone number to ring all your phones. It also lets you receive and send SMS messages on your ...READ»

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How to Communicate with Teenagers, Pt I...

When you figure it out, please tell me. In all seriousness, in order to effectively communicate with someone, you need to have a basic understanding of that person’s frame of reference. Through extensive lecturing at high schools and universities (as well as my niece torturing me by continuously friending and de-friending me on Facebook) it is very clear that the experiences for a teen growing up now is very different than it was for me. How different?READ»

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Taroby :: An Email Dashboard For Entrepreneurs

Taroby is a web 2.0 SaaS based messaging and collaboration suite that enables sharing of email accounts among team members.“Sharing” implies that emails are accessible to all team members working on a particular assignment or ...READ»