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unfortunately for Santa, 5,000 friends is all anyone gets on Facebook. To add anyone new, the man who says his real legal name is Santa Claus must remove someone on his list.

That upsets the man who runs the Santa Claus Foundation, which he descr read more »
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A couple of days after launching on September 2, 6.23% of visitors to TechCrunch were using Chrome. Today usage is up to 8.12% over the period since launch.

And a bonus chart - I hadn’t noticed that iPhone users made up over 1% of total TechCrun read more »
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Most business owners and website publisher still look at social media with short term goals. They are willing to invest the time and energy but are still looking for direct sales. As a result the editorial tone of the piece takes a different angle, read more »
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For example, what colors do you associate with a spooky night? Most likely, you’ll choose black, shades of gray and maybe a little silver or even orange. Haunted evenings generally don’t come in vivid blues and fresh greens, after all.

Did blue p read more »
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"How do we bridge this gap? The question isn't how you meet us, it is how do we meet you? In a world operated by handshakes and meetings in private rooms where everyone has an agent, it's next to impossible for a startup without Nike cred to meet a read more »
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What is check-in like? "Mr. Johnson, welcome back to the hotel! Congratulations on your recent transition to a new job! I’m also glad to see your female companion today is more attractive than your last en-suite partner! You may be pleased to know t read more »
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While both services figure to improve in short time, they work well together for the moment. Given the way software is developing these days, it’s not unreasonable to think that oneSearch will adopt some of Tellme’s location services, while Tellme m read more »
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According to Google: "While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers" Kinda Funny when google chooses the ads to be sold.

Google has also killed several anti Sc read more »
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Google set up an empty frame as an advertisement for Google Video in Germany read more »
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New York has become the first (so far as I know) state to try to close the “Amazon Loophole” in its sales tax collections. With the passage of a new state budget, they’re requiring out-of-state interstate retailers who do $10,000 or more of business read more »
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According to Australian Securities and Investments Commission documents, Tucker maintains six different versions of himself, complete with varying birthdate, for his various corporate investments: read more »
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But really we aren't competing with microsoft office, really. Pay no attention to the fact we're duplicating every product in the suite. read more »
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A top Republican in the House of Representatives is demanding that Google answer a barrage of questions about privacy, some of which are related to the company's proposed purchase of the DoubleClick advertising firm. read more »
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Google aquires mobile service Zingku here's a idea of what they do

Our service is designed from the mobile phone, outward, allowing you to create and exchange things of interest ranging from invitations to “mobile flyers” with friends in a truste read more »
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The MotleyFool is running a story with the rumor of Google buying sirius radio read more »
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Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access are being abandoned or scaled back by US cities as the economics of the deals turn out to be more challenging than expected. read more »
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Digg announced they were using microsoft to serve ads back in July

http://sphinn.com/story/1428

However this weekend I started noticing "ads by Google", so anybody got an inside scoop? read more »
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In an age of social media and user generated content, sending in the lawyers first isn't always the smartest thing to do, in fact sometimes it blows up in your face, bringing more attention to a bad situation. read more »
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Shoemoney asks a good question, what would happen if firefox partnered with Yahoo instead of Google read more »
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I'd like to see how a discussion differs from a submitted story, and what better subject than me me me read more »
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Numa numa who doesn't love it? I really wanted to see what happens when I submit a story. read more »
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