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Tech journalists aren’t the only ones with early access to Google’s latest social product, Google+. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also apparently snagged an invite to check out the social network designed to overtake his own. As Forbes notes, he doesn’t look particularly happy ...Read More

If one online retailer could ever challenge big-box retailer Walmart, it would be Amazon.com. Amazon already surpasses Walmart in areas such as customer service ranking, acquisitions, online presence and — believe it or not — prices. The biggest area where Walmart is still ahead ...Read More

On Twitter, Facebook, and dozens of other social sites, normal consumers often choose to keep tabs on the brands they love. In fact, many brands have highly optimized their marketing and PR strategies to accommodate that behavior, even going to far as to do ...Read More

Startup Formspring has just hit a huge milestone. The Q&A app now has 25 million users, and they’re asking questions and posting responses at breakneck rates. In a chat at the startup’s San Francisco headquarters, we discussed a few items on Formspring’s roadmap. As ...Read More

Consumers are spending more time on mobile apps than on the web for the first time, a new report claims. Flurry compared its mobile data to stats from comScore and Alexa, and found that in June, consumers spent 81 minutes per day using mobile ...Read More

There’s a batch of rumors surrounding Apple’s MacBook Air, and most of the predictions say the same thing: The new MacBook Air will sport Intel’s low-power Sandy Bridge CPUs as well as the ultra-fast data transfer port Thunderbolt. Contrary to earlier reports that said ...Read More

The Data Liberation Front – a team of engineers at Google tasked with making it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products – has announced their first service, Google Takeout. Despite the weird team name, this is just ...Read More