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Viral Video: What Do You Get When You Mash Up Google Glass, FaceTagram and Gosling?

Kara Swisher in Media on April 11 at 9:24 am PT

You get comedy gold!

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

Kara Swisher in Media on April 9 at 12:20 pm PT

Actually, it’s pretty simple: Photos. Photos. And, oh yes, mobile photos — lots and lots and lots of them.

Retrosift Scans Your Emails for Every (Cringeworthy) Photo You’ve Ever Sent

Lauren Goode in Product News on March 30 at 8:29 am PT

A new app that sifts through old photos. Yes, you really wore that.

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Websense Explores Sale of Company

Anupreeta Das and Dennis K. Berman, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 16, 2011 at 2:38 pm PT

Web security software company Websense Inc. is exploring a sale with the aid of investment bank Qatalyst Partners, people familiar with the matter said. San Diego-based Websense has a market capitalization of $826 million and could fetch around $1 billion in a sale, these people said.

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Google Makes It Easier to Sift Through Recipes

Voices in News on February 24, 2011 at 3:02 pm PT

In the latest of Google’s ongoing efforts to promote Better Living Through Algorithms, the search sovereign is rolling out Recipe View, which strains out extraneous results from a recipe search and lets you filter for specific ingredients, cooking times and calories.

Cooliris Raises $9.6M, Gets Social With Mobile Photo-Sharing App

Liz Gannes in Social on February 14, 2011 at 2:00 am PT

Cooliris, which makes tools to help people consume media on the Web and various devices, is changing focus with a new flagship product that’s about sharing photos rather than browsing.

Facebook Adds More Group Control, Data Export, App Dashboard

John Paczkowski in News on October 6, 2010 at 10:55 am PT

In the end, it wasn’t a revamped Events service that Facebook announced at its invite-only media event today. It wasn’t a “check-in” feature, a new iteration of Facebook Credits, a partnership with Skype or a showing of “The Social Network” with a frame-by-frame refutation by Mark Zuckerberg. In the end, it was a series of service enhancements–three, to be exact.