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Andreessen Horowitz-backed Burbn bets location is more than a check-in

March 9th, 2010

Can the world handle yet another location-based social network?

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The ‘Mario of Facebook’ is yet to come

March 9th, 2010

Gareth Davis, the platform manager in charge of Games at Facebook, delivered his keynote today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Davis focused his talk on the changes in social gaming and told the audience that, despite FarmVille , the killer social game is still “out there”. “Early cinema evolved into a specific language for that media, bringing about cuts and edits and certain types of shots,” Davis said

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Facebook to launch one of its many geolocation projects next month

March 9th, 2010

Facebook will finally make itself heard in the rapidly developing world of location-based services, according to The New York Times. The company will unveil a location-based feature at its f8 conference in late April. Nick Bilton reports: The new location feature will have two aspects, according to the people familiar with Facebook’s plans

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Imeem founder raising funds for a new, stealthy startup

March 9th, 2010

Updated Dalton Caldwell , co-founder and former chief executive of music startup Imeem , appears to be working on a new company called Mixed Media Labs. And he has raised $370,000 of a targeted $600,000 in debt financing to get started, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Despite getting off to a promising start, Imeem struggled to make its business work, and was acquired and shut down by MySpace last year.

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Bump Technologies closes in on 10 million downloads

March 9th, 2010

Sequoia-backed Bump Technologies Inc . is closing in on 10 million downloads for its nifty contact and data-sharing app. With iPhone and iPod Touch sales estimated to be around 80 million , co-founder  Jake Mintz says this means the company’s apps are on more than 10 percent of Apple’s phones.

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Eighty percent of corporate bloggers stop after 5 posts max

March 8th, 2010

“IBM research shows that about 80 percent of those who begin a corporate blog never post more than five entries,” journalist and heavy-duty blogger Mathew Ingram wrote on GigaOm on Friday.

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Milo.com finds local sales

March 8th, 2010

Local shopping search tool Milo.com has expanded its coverage of 50,000 retailers to allow customers to watch for local sales. Milo already offers what the company says is “real-time availability and pricing information.” Why use Milo

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Apple’s iPad launches April 3 in US

March 5th, 2010

Apple today announced that the official iPad launch is scheduled for April 3 in the U.S. The “Wi-Fi” model will be the first available and then followed by the “Wi-Fi + 3G” model in late April of this year. Starting March 12, consumers will be able to pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s online store or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on Saturday, April 3, at an Apple retail store, according to the company’s announcement

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