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Yahoo's Three-Year Plan to "Bring Cool Back"

Yahoo's new set of goals hit all the company's beats: A revamped Yahoo Mail, an iPad app, connected TV, better search, and more social networking. READ»

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Google Instant Redefines Your ABCs

A is for AOL. B is for Bank of America. C is for Craigslist. Say what? Presenting the default search results of New Google -- in rhyming couplets.READ»

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Google Priority Inbox Soothes Email-Overload Stress

Too. much. email. And it's not always the kind of flat-out junk that can be zipped to a spam folder, either. Gmail's new Priority Inbox senses what email is important to you, and sequesters it for quick viewing.READ»

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Apple Manager Fired, Indicted for Million-Dollar Kickback Scheme

An Apple employee has been both indicted by a federal grand jury and hit with a civil suit from Apple itself for a scheme in which he accepted more than $1 million for passing confidential information to other companies.READ»

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Hackers Hijack Gmail in China [Updated]

In the U.S., we've been complaining about Gmail. In China, they're complaining too, but for a very different reason.READ»

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Ronald Reagan's Son Launches @Reagan Email Alternative to Lefty Gmail, AOL, Hotmail

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Ronald Reagan's famous challenge to the Russian leader became a rallying-cry to end the Cold War. Now, decades later, Reagan's son is taking up the torch, albeit for a more important cause: ...READ»

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Pakistan Dials Its Islamic Net Censorship Up to 11, Shutters Yahoo and Bing

Pakistan's just made a move that's not going to qualify it for any "friendly world citizen" awards: Its government's said it'll be filtering scores more Web sites for anti-Islamic content. Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia were just ...READ»

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Microsoft's and Apple's Product Lines Compared: This Is Why Apple Wins

Microsoft has, for the first time, been beaten in market cap by Apple. At the close of the market today, Apple sat at $222.12 billion, a gain of 1.8%, while Microsoft went down 1% to $219.18 billion. That makes Apple, according to ...READ»

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How to Invest In... India

Based in Bangalore, Sachin Maheshwari is a principal with Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). Founded in 1985, DFJ has backed such companies as Skype, Feedburner, Hotmail, and Baidu. DFJ India's investments have been in early and ...READ»

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Windows Live Hotmail: Completely Re-Invented (Read: It Actually Looks Good Now)

Microsoft announced their new version of Hotmail today, and it's the biggest change for the service I can remember. It takes lots of cues from Gmail, and in a few ways manages to one-up it--it's classic New Microsoft. In other words, it's legit.READ»

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Today in Most Innovative Companies

Daily news of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Microsoft, Google, Ngmoco, and BYD.READ»

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How Microsoft is Going to Compete with Google

Brian Hall, General Manager of Windows Live, which includes Hotmail, Live Spaces, Live Messenger, tells me how Microsoft will compete with Google, Yahoo, and Facebook. These services have hundreds of millions of users and therefore is ...READ»

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Microsoft's Global Criminal Compliance Handbook Leaked

Microsoft has acted swiftly after the Web site Cryptome leaked its "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook." The guide does exactly what it says: outlines the surveillance services the software company will perform for law enforcement ...READ»

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Tech Trend: Cloud Computing

All internet users should be familiar with cloud computing. Anyone that uses a web-based e-mail service (think Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo!), or manages a social networking profile (such as Facebook or Twitter) should be...READ»

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Executive Search Consultant in NY Reveals Secrets To Avoid Age Discrimination

NY Executive Search Consultant explains how senior executives can avoid age discrimination during executive employment searches. David Werner specializes in marketing senior executives.READ»

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How Gary Vee Crushed His Way to a Bestseller

How can you assure yourself a bestseller? Become a celebrity. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 3]READ»

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Forget Everything You've Heard About Book Publishing

Most people have a vision of publishing that ceased to exist years ago: writers of yore traipsing bookstore to bookstore across America to offer readings and scrawl inscriptions to the handful of strangers who bothered to show up. It sounds so quaint. Alas, today's publishers have little patience for such low-yield marketing efforts. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 1]READ»

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Spreadable Media: A Cure for Viral Marketing

If a viral marketing campaign drops in a press release, is it really viral?READ»

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Auto-Played Out: MySpace Music Streaming Drops 20%

In mid-August, MySpace switched off the "auto-play" feature on its musicians' embedded audio players. The move was supposed to save MySpace money; every time one of those songs queued up, the company had to shell out royalty fees--as ...READ»

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Is This a Microsoft Renaissance?

New data suggests Microsoft's Bing search engine is continuing to grow well, weeks after its launch. It's great news for the team at Redmond...but it started us wondering: Are we in the middle of a Microsoft Rennaissance? Microsoft's ...READ»

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Microsoft Brings Bing Feature to Hotmail, Urges 350 Million Users to Forget Google

Just as Google levels its sights on Microsoft's OS dominance, Microsoft is quietly adding some Bing to email provider Hotmail, nudging hundreds of millions of users toward Microsoft's Bing decision engine. The primary change to ...READ»

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Chi.mp Site Launches to Simplify Your Online Identity and Socializing

An interesting new site on the interwebs aims to simplify and centralize your online life by giving you more control over your online identity. Fresh out of private beta, Chi.mp is now open to the public and will enable users to ...READ»

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Paperless Ticketing from SocialTix to Make Life Easier for Attendees

TMCnet Contributor ByAnita B. Life might get a little more convenient for season ticket holders, theater patrons, subscribers and concert goers with the announcement of the social ticketing Web site, SocialTix by Event ...READ»

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Social Ticketing Platform Announced: Social Networking meets Paperless Ticketing

The dynamics of ticketing has begun to evolve. However, much of the evolution simply focuses on the format of the bearer instrument with terms such as print-at-home, virtual ticketing, electronic ticketing and paperless ticketing. ...READ»

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Paperless Ticketing meets Social Networking

Event Innovation announces development of the World's first Social TicketingTM site for season ticket holders, theater patrons and subscribers, and concert goers. Washington, DC (PRWEB) December 1, 2008 -- Today Stephen Gilfus, ...READ»