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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn launches platform — a better business social network — LinkedIn has just launched its own developer platform and a new design that promises to make it more useful to its millions of business users. — Earlier this year, many have wondered if social network Facebook …
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Mario Sundar / The LinkedIn Blog:
Announcing LinkedIn News, Redesigned Homepage & more — The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your profile.
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Anne Zelenka / GigaOM:
LinkedIn Needs to ReachOut — Professional networking service LinkedIn wants to emulate Facebook's success by drawing users and applications through the use of a similar portal strategy. But LinkedIn's best chance at success lies in doing just the opposite: reaching out to other web sites and applications.
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Lucian Beebe / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform — Several months ago, we announced we are working on APIs and a platform strategy for software developers to integrate with LinkedIn and display their application within LinkedIn. With the OpenSocial announcements, you can now see a lot …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:LinkedIn API and New Homepage Drawing Near
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Azadeh Ensha / New York Times:
Yahoo to Start Internet Program for Technology Investors — Yahoo, which already owns one of the most successful financial sites on the Web, is putting the final touches on a new online program for technology investors that is scheduled to begin next month.
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Search Engine Journal, Silicon Alley Insider, Search Engine Land, Mashable! and BloggingStocks
Electronista:
Toshiba enters solid-state with 128GB drive — Toshiba started its week with the introduction of its first solid-state disks in its 1.8-inch HDD range. Designed to replace conventional rotating storage, the drives are said to offer the storage of a multi-level cell flash device with the speed …
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Toshiba Launches High Performance Solid State Drives with MLC Devices — TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced its entry into the emerging market for NAND-flash-based solid state drive (SSD) with a series of products featuring multilevel-cell NAND flash memories.
Randall C. Kennedy / InfoWorld:
Microsoft Office Live Workspaces misses the mark — San Francisco - After an excruciatingly drawn-out development process, Microsoft???s Office Live Workspaces — the company???s attempt to marry Microsoft Office to the emerging Web services ???cloud??? — is finally upon us.
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Christopher Helman / Forbes:
The Second Coming — Michael Dell is back in charge of the troubled computer company he founded 23 years ago. He's already shaken things up. But can he bring back the magic? — His first official day back as chief executive, after stepping away for two and a half years, was Feb. 2.
Oliver / StarrTrek:
In Memoriam: Marc Orchant — I received the news around 3PM today that my closest friend, business associate, co-conspirator, sometime mentor, sometime — protege and full time confidante had passed away a week after suffering a massive heart attack at his home in New Mexico. He was 50 years old.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Nokia Pushes to Regain U.S. Sales in Spite of Apple and Google — ESPOO, Finland — When Google announced plans in October to revolutionize the software of cellular phones, few were more eager to hear the details than the industry veterans at Nokia. They still are.
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Subdomains and subdirectories — Towards the tail end of PubCon, I noticed a spate of articles talking about subdomains and subdirectories in Google, and I wanted to talk more about this subject in case I was unclear. — Historically, it's been kind of a wash about when to use subdomains vs. subdirectories.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
T-Mo launches Samsung Katalyst with HotSpot @Home — Seriously. Do anyone's friends actually look like this? — What does $79.99 and a two-year contract get you these days? The Samsung Katalyst (SGH-t739), a slim slider from T-Mobile that supports My Faves and HotSpot @Home.
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NTT DoCoMo Global Site:
NTT DoCoMo to Launch Child-Friendly F801i Handset — NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that the FOMA™ F801i, a new child-friendly 3G mobile phone loaded with special features for the safety and convenience of children, will go on sale December 20.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Bankrate Unveils Two Acquisitions; Citi Upgrades — Bankrate (RATE) shares are soaring today following the announcement of a pair of acquisitions and an upgrade by Citigroup. — This morning the company announced a pair of acquisitions: Bankrate is buying Nationwide Card Services …
Clint Boulton / eWEEK.com:
Online Ad World Gets Wider with Widgets — Clearspring plans to offer widgets with online ads, an area where Google is already playing. — Google is getting a new competitor. — Widget maker Clearspring Technologies on Dec. 10 said it plans to launch an ad network to help …
