MSNBC.com Acquires Hyperlocal News Site EveryBlock

MSNBC.com just announced that it has acquired EveryBlock, a ‘hyperlocal’ news and information site that has been publishing and aggregating data and news stories for 16 American cities …

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Bing Shopping Grows 169% in June

Bing Shopping , the comparison shopping tool that is part of Microsoft’s new search engine, saw some impressive growth last month. According to Hitwise’s Heather Dougherty, visits to Bing …

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Web Squared: When Web 2.0 Meets Internet of Things

Recently Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle released a white paper entitled Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. It focuses squarely, pardon the pun, on the intersection of …

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Delicious Reborn as Real-Time News Tracker

Yahoo’s social bookmarking service Delicious launched a new home page this morning, combining recent tagging activity and cross-referenced links on Twitter to deliver what it calls the hottest …

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Internet Fridges: State of the Market

The Internet fridge is probably the most oft-quoted example of what the Internet of Things – when everyday objects are connected to the Internet – will enable. Imagine …

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Weekly Wrapup: Why Amazon Bought Zappos, IBM's Internet of Things …

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze why Amazon spent nearly a billion dollars to …

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