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The US Presidential race has candidates chasing dollars like hounds after a fox, and one of their favorite destinations in rich Silicon…
Last week Google made its move against eBay owned Skype, an online person-to-person internet telephony company, with the purchase of startup company, GrandCentral Communications.
Vizu’s polls carry the tagline, “See What the World Thinks,” and some traditional bar graphs have been enough to back up that claim. But thanks to a new development that involves Google Maps, users can now view votes according to their geographic location.
When I worked in the pharmaceutical industry, I learned that the U.S. Food and Drug Admnistration would send the equivalent of undercover agents to industry trade shows. These spies would hang around company booths listening for any sales or marketing rep to make a claim or statement that violated FDA guidelines. The FDA would promptly turn around and fine the offending company.
How would you feel about your ISP digging into the stuff you send out to check for pirated content? Sounds kind of Big-Brotherish, doesn't? A sort of TSA for your data packets. Enter Ma Bell and the Copyright Police.
Earlier this week, Ning collected $44 million in funding - that’s easily the main story here. But to add an important update to this event, Ning has also now reached the point where it has over 75,000 social networks.
