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If you would like to know who all have not responded to your friend request on Facebook yet, go to Accounts –> Edit Friends and select “Friends” unders Lists. The status — Friend Request Pending — against any Facebook member in this list indicates that he or she is yet to approve (or ignore) your [...]
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Consumer Watchdog issued a press release saying that Google spent $1.34 million trying to influence federal lawmakers and regulators in the second quarter of 2010, a 41% increase over $950,000 in the same period a year ago. The group says Google has spent a total of $2.72 million lobbying during the first half of the [...]
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Consumer Watchdog: Google Spent $1.34 Million Lobbying in Q2
Facebook isn’t the only one announcing impressive milestones today. Pandora announced at the New Music Seminar that it has 60 million registered users. That’s not exactly Facebook’s 500 million, but pretty impressive nonetheless. It wasn’t that long ago that Pandora’s obituary was all but written, but things are looking bright for the company now. Pandora’s [...]
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Facebook of course announced today that it surpassed 500 million users, but the company has shared a few more stats today as well. Facebook gets 100 billion hits per day. It has 50 billion photos. It has 2 trillion objects cached, with hundreds of millions of requests per second and has 130TB of logs every [...]
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Talk of free 30-day trials may not "wow" a lot of folks. Some people, for example, will wonder whether a company won’t find an excuse not to take a product back, and other individuals realize just returning a product with a receipt can accomplish the same thing. But local business owners should definitely take advantage [...]
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A new report from Econsultancy suggests that email still beats social networks when it comes to e-commerce success. The report says that over a third (37%) of consumers don’t use a social networking site, and that those who have become a "fan" or "friend" of a company or brand online are still in the minority. [...]
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This is part of our summer series of new Search Stories. Look for the label Search Stories and subscribe to the series. -Ed. My sister is my best friend in the world. But that wasn’t always the case. When we were young, my sister and I always had our sibling rivalries. Quarrels over who got [...]
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Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sent a letter today on behalf of 38 states to Google asking it if it had tested its Street View software before using it. At issue is Google’s unauthorized collection of Wi-Fi data which possibly included emails, passwords, web browsing and other private information. Google has admitted to collecting the [...]
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You may recall Facebook’s Gross National Happiness project, in which status updates throughout the social network are monitored for positive words to give an idea of how happy people are in general. New Scientist reports that a computer scientist named Alan Mislove at Northeastern University in Boston (along with some colleagues) has been analyzing a [...]
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Facebook was expected to announce that it reached 500 million users this week, and sure enough, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced it today. Facebook has also launched a new app called Facebook Stories. This lets users share and read hundreds of stories about how they’ve used Facebook, categorized by themes and locations around the world. Zuckerberg [...]
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Borders has launched a new "Textbook Marketplace" that allows users to buy and sell new and used textbooks. The Marketplace features more than 1.4 million titles including a selection of used textbooks at a savings of up to 90 percent. Users can also earn cash via the site’s used textbook buyback option. "College students spend [...]
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Google has launched some improvements to its borders for over 60 countries and regions in Google Maps (coming to Google Earth soon). "Making Google’s mapping tools as accurate as possible is a complex process, especially when a map’s accuracy has both quantitative and qualitative aspects," says Google Geo Policy Analyst Charlie Hale. "We receive spatial [...]
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It’s very rare that a major website launches any kind of redesign without any complaints from users. Google is no stranger to this itself, and it should come as no surprise that this week’s launch of the new Google Image Search has come with its own share of complaints (although I’d be surprised if the [...]
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Google Ventures has invested in a paid search marketing firm called Trada. Google Ventues has invested $5.75 million in Trada, along with Foundry Group, which previously invested $2.2 million in the company. According to Trada’s description of itself, it allows advertisers to create a new paid search campaign in Trada, then PPC experts are alerted [...]
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MySpace and MTV.com are partnering to bring live streaming coverage of celebrities at Comic-Con. Starting Thursday, July 22, daily live shows will be hosted by MTV Movies Editor Josh Horowitz and will stream on MySpace and MTV’s homepage. Users will be able to post comments and questions in real-time for a chance to have celebrities [...]
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