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Category: Business

  • I like to think of Friendbook not Facefeed

    Surprise news last night was Facebook’s acquisition of Friendfeed. Facebook – a giant among social networks – has grabbed the comparatively-tiny Friendfeed content-sharing service (which has just 12 employees) as the means to accelerate Facebook’s product development plans, according to…

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  • How bad can it get for SpinVox?

    When I think about SpinVox and the huge public kerfuffle that broke out last month stemming from allegations made in a BBC investigation over SpinVox’s audio-to-text transcription service, Billy Flynn and razzle-dazzle from the musical Chicago is mostly what springs…

  • The bikini barista comes to town

    Is Bikini Espresso Cafe a clever niche-marketing idea, or just stereotypical exploitation of women, masquerading as a smart business move? Brand Republic reports: A US firm is planning to launch a chain of coffee shops staffed entirely by bikini-clad women…

  • FT launches online clippings service

    The Financial Times launched a new service today: online clippings, designed to enable you to capture content from anywhere on the FT website and save it to your clippings account page at FT.com. If you’re a paying subscriber to the…

  • Old media promotes Google new media

    The battlelines between Google and Microsoft seem to be getting clear. Search: Yahoo sells out search to Microsoft Operating Systems: Google plans a rival computer operating system Next-Generation Productivity Apps: Microsoft intends to launch Office into The Cloud I make…