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LinkedIn Buys Smart Email Startup Rapportive
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Rapportive, a startup that makes a Gmail add-on that displays social media info about contacts as you email them, confirmed on Wednesday that it had been purchased by LinkedIn.
Rahul Vohra, CEO of Rapportive, confirmed the acquisition on the company’s blog. “In business, partnership is dating — and we went on a lot of dates with LinkedIn. Slowly, but surely, we fell in love,” Vohra wrote. Vohra wrote that despite the new o...
Zipcar Wants to Make Your Car Part of its Fleet
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Zipcar’s 673,000 subscribers currently share its fleet of 8,900 vehicles. But what if they could also rent yours? The company announced on Wednesday that it’s taking a first step toward finding out.
Zipcar has led a $13.7 million round of funding in a peer-to-peer car rental startup called Wheelz.
Like similar startups Getaround and RelayRides, Wheelz runs an online marketplace (there’s also an iPhone app) on which neighbors can...
The Pope Takes to Twitter to Save Lent
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Pope Benedict XVI is bringing a segment of his daily papal message to Twitter, beginning Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, according to a Vatican Radio blog post.
The reason? In its post, the Vatican says that while some Catholics view Lent as a time to volunteer, give something up or study the Bible, others have abandoned the season:
“In our increasingly secular societies, many young people no longer keep the Lenten season in any special way – t...
Will Texting Become Extinct Thanks to Free Social Messaging Apps?
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Phone companies missed out on $13.9 billion last year as more people opted to send free texts through SMS (short message service) applications like Blackberry Messenger and Facebook Mobile Messenger, according to a report. This follows a $8.6 billion loss in phone company provided text revenues in 2010.
SMS revenues are down as people communicate through chat boards and within other applications like Words with Friends. Mobile communication is...
Apple’s Foxconn Operations Exposed in ABC Report [VIDEO]
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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In case you missed last night’s report on ABC’s Nightline, the video above provides a rare glimpse into Foxconn plants in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, that create various Apple products, including the iPad.
As Nightline anchor Bill Weir told Mashable on Tuesday, the full 17-minute report (the above is a teaser from Good Morning America) is short on outright horror stories, but...
Google’s Safari Tracking: Here Come the Lawsuits
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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On the list of things guaranteed to happen from Google getting caught circumventing privacy settings on the iPhone‘s web browser, you can check off “lawsuit.” At least two people are separately suing Google, accusing the search giant of violating federal laws.
First reported by Bloomberg, Illinois resident Matthew Soble filed suit in Delaware against Google, saying the search giant violated his privacy and the privacy of others...
The Citizens Agenda: What Would You Ask the Republican Candidates?
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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The microphone is in your hand, and it’s your chance to ask the 2012 Republican presidential candidates any question. What would you ask?
This is the core philosophy behind “The Citizens Agenda,” a collaboration between the Guardian US and New York University’s Studio 20 graduate journalism program.
The project analyzes questions being asked of the presidential hopefuls and seeks to determine whether or not they reflect...
Eventbrite Issues Its 50 Millionth Ticket
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Six-year-old online ticketing platform Eventbrite issued its 50 millionth ticket on Tuesday night.
More than 40 percent of those tickets were sold in 2011, when the company nearly doubled both the number of tickets it sold and more than doubled the number of events listed the year before.
Eventbrite similarly expanded across other metrics last year. It added more than 100 employees and $50 million of funding, opened a London office and made plans...
Highest Court in Europe Asked to Decide on ACTA
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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The highest court in the European Union has been asked to determine if the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, is legal. The move comes as country after country has stopped ratification of the controversial anti-piracy treaty.
ACTA has been labeled by some as a “global SOPA,” an international version of the U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act which flamed out after the Internet community rallied in opposition to the bill.
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Twitter Is Testing Auto-Translate Feature
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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As more Twitter users flock to the site worldwide, it’s only natural that the social network roll out an option that allows you to read tweets beyond your native language.
Twitter is experimenting with a new feature that automatically translates tweets into various languages with the help of Bing Translator.
A Twitter spokesperson told Mashable that it started to roll out the feature to a handful of users last week to help members better...
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