Twitter has been hailed as an incredibly useful marketing tool for businesses and brands, both big and small, to disseminate information and engage with consumers on a massive scale. But what about non-profits? The ability to use social media to...
Topics: twestival, Twitter, twollars

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Only a couple of days after George Hotz became the first hacker to release a jailbreak app for the iPhone 3GS on Windows, there's a Mac-compatible version out too. This time, Hotz got some help from two fellow coders to be able to please the Mac...
Topics: Apple, iPhone

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The term "e-commerce" still lacks a universally valid definition, but even if you just bundle B2B and B2C transactions under it, it's a multi-trillion dollar business globally. Last year, Nielsen found [PDF] 86% of the global web population.
Topics: Amazon, rakuten

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6,000 or so people have congregated at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas for this year's World Series of Poker to fight for $50 million or so that will be split among the last 10% of players left standing. Among them are a number of tech startup...

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The new browser wars on on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week , Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 , which has now been downloaded nearly...
Topics: Apple, Firefox, ie8, Microsoft, Mozilla, safari

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