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94% Twitter staff tweets via Twitter-owned channels

There are countless ways by which we can tweet today, thanks to all manner of desktop, Web-based, mobile and third party apps that make it easy to stay in touch…

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Why is Pinterest Spamming Your Facebook Friends?

There’s no doubt that what interest-aggregation site Pinterest has managed over the past few months is spectacular. Recently reaching the milestone of 10 million users, the site has gained traction…

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Apple Rushes to Finalize App Demos for iPad 3

Now that the beans have been, mostly, spilled with regards to the early March announcement of the iPad 3, more information is coming forward about Apple’s preparations for the event. Sources with…

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Apple To Air Two New Siri Ads

In the tradition of themed ads from Apple, such as the ones for FaceTime that featured grandparents seeing their grandkids for the first time, the company has been whipping up…

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Capcom's Video Game Restaurant

Continuing the gamer geek theme from my post about the Nintendo belt buckle, it seems that Capcom has raised the bar. The Japanese video game company has launched the Capcom…

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Google Bar Gets Updated to Included YouTube and Calendar

Google has been tinkering with the black bar that shows up at the top of any Google property that you’re on. It’s a powerful way to let its users seamlessly…

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5 New Ways to Monetize Your Content in 2012

This week’s Pinterest content monetization ‘scandal’ has taught us a lot about the naivety of the modern-day web user. Yes, platforms like Pinterest (and Pocket-Lint and WIWT) use a tool called Skimlinks to generate revenue from subtle referral links. As…

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NY's BigApps Competition Opens For Voting

The NYC BigApps competition is in its third year running, and this time the stakes are higher than ever with nearly 100 teams fighting for a piece of the hefty $50,000…

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Check This NES Controller Belt Buckle

For the gamer geek in all of us, we have our ways of showing our pride. This belt buckle from nesbuckle isn’t the first time we’ve seen a piece of…

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US Will Approve Google's Purchase of Motorola Mobility

The “will they or won’t they” argument is apparently over when it comes to Google’s monster $12.5B acquisition of Motorola Mobility. According to a report by Reuters, the Department of…

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Twitter Takes to Satellites for SMS Access

Twitter announced today that it has partnered with two satellite providers to provide its SMS service to an even larger global audience. This is a pretty big deal when you…

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NY Tech Meetup & NASDAQ Partner Up

NY Tech Meetup, a monthly tech startup event with over 20,000 members, and NASDAQ OMX, the world’s largest exchange company, have officially announced a partnership today in support of New York’s growing tech…

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Elevation Dock Crosses $1M on Kickstarter, But Not Alone Long

Updated: The Double Fine Kickstarter project has now officially crossed $1M! Celebratory image below. Earlier this month we alerted you to what we felt was one of the best docks…

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Tumblr to Get Portuguese Version

The microblogging platform Tumblr will soon be translated into Portuguese, its latest Brazilian hire Gina Gotthilf confirmed in an interview with the Brazilian blog Link Estadão, following her participation in the gigantic…

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Eyeconit Scans Icons to Help With App Discovery

If you’ve ever hung out with a bunch of friends who have iPhones you know that the conversation at some point will turn to “what apps do you have?”. I’ve…