With Revamped Hangouts, Google Aims to Unify Messaging

Google’s new take on messaging is finally here.
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Viral Video: Will Qualcomm’s Paul Jacobs Bring Adorkable “Born Mobile” Toddler to CES?

The massive annual tech gathering truly goes mobile in 2013.
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Exclusive: Ross Levinsohn Departs Yahoo

The Hair bows out.
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FaceTagram? InstaBook? Whatever You Call It, All Your Mobile Photo Are Belong to Facebook (for $1 Billion)!

Actually, it’s pretty simple: Photos. Photos. And, oh yes, mobile photos — lots and lots and lots of them.
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How Market Fares After Labor Day Will Determine if Groupon’s IPO Is Delayed — Or Even Pulled (Or Not)

With all the heat on it, questions swirl around the social buying phenom, including about the status of its IPO.
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Ridiculously Transparent

I had a real struggle preparing to be a public company CEO. And it had little to do with having scalable internal systems or making the quarterly numbers: I just couldn’t keep secrets from my employees.

Exclusive: AOL Fires Moviefone Editor Who Offered Fired Freelancers the Chance to Work for, Um, Free

Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to “contribute as part of our non-paid blogger system.” Today, sources said that exec–Moviefone Editor-in-Chief Patricia Chui–was fired by the company, which is in the midst of drastically rejiggering its stable of writers.

In Case You Needed Reminding, Social Enterprise Software Is Going to Be Big

If Monday’s launch of Chatter.com wasn’t enough of a signal that 2011 is going to be a big year for social enterprise software, then maybe this survey data from Jive Software will make it clear.

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Internet Service Disrupted in Egypt Before Planned Protests

In Egypt, many forms of Internet access–as well as other forms of communication, such as text messaging–have reportedly been disrupted in advance of anti-government rallies on Friday. While it’s understandably hard to get details out of a country where citizens are being prevented from organizing and talking to each other online, some tweets and updates through mobile apps are getting out, and Facebook has confirmed a drop in traffic from Egypt. Other sites, such as Twitter, have been blocked in Egypt since earlier this week, when protests broke out calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.

Dell Mobile Boss Bails

Motorola Sues Apple Over…Everything