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President Obama Meets with Technology’s Major Players

Following President Obama’s statement that he wants to encourage American businesses to invest more money in innovation, venture capitalist John Doerr hosted a meeting in California Thursday with technology’s major players, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, Apple’s chief executive Steve Jobs, despite media reports that his health had taken a

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Is Bing Better Search Engine Than Google?

According to Hitwise, Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, now has close to 30 percent of the search engine market and is gaining on Google. In January alone, Bing’s share increased by 6 percent. To what can this increase be attributed? Is Bing the better search engine? According to Hitwise Google’s “success rate” ? the percentage of

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AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million

In recent days, AOL paid $315 million for the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites. Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington will assume the role of president and editor in chief of the Huffington Post Media Group within AOL. She, along with investor and well known communications executive Kenneth Lerer,

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Bing’s Yusuf Mehdi Sounds Off About Google’s Accusations

In recent days, Google accused Bing of copying its search results, which has set off yet another Microsoft versus Google debate. Bing executive Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, blogged about the accusation, remarking that, “We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop.” In the same

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Android is the Top Smartphone Platform Worldwide

Android is currently the top smartphone platform worldwide, according to new data from Canalys analysts. Android has taken the top spot from Nokia. In the fourth quarter of 2010, there were nearly 33 million shipments of Android-based smartphones, versus 31 million shipments of phones running Nokia’s Symbian platform. However, these rankings are based on handset

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How to add Facebook Like Button to WordPress Blog Posts

There are some plugins for WordPress that add Facebook Like button, however we can add this functionality manually by editing single.php file. To do so, go to single.php file and find a place marked as . Then insert this code, for example just bellow. < ?php the_content(' '); ?> < iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=< ?php the_permalink() ?>&layout=standard&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=80″

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Royal Deer Design goes live with site for clothing design industry, smartstyleshops.com

Royal Deer Design, a web design company based in New York City, recently unveiled its latest techno- savvy website, www.smartstyleshops.com. The team at Royal Deer Design created the site for the highly successful media and fashion industry executive, Rahel Cete. The site, which has a custom design and functionality, features a custom CMS control panel

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Verizon offering unlimited data plan for limited time

Verizon will now offer those who purchase an iPhone a $30 unlimited data plan. Verizon COO Lowell McAdam explained that not offering an unlimited plan would prevent customers who might otherwise switch from AT&T from doing so. Anticipation that Verizon would soon offer the iPhone kept sales down in the fourth quarter of 2010, he

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Google War on Spam

Google has, and continues, to take a proactive approach toward spam. According to a post on Google’s official blog on Friday by Matt Cutts, Google’s search quality is presently “better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness.” Cutts also reminded users of the following principles which apply to Google search

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Google’s Larry Page will become CEO

A net revenue of $6.4 billion and $8.75 a share were recently reported by Google. There are also some major leadership changes slated to take place. Effective April 4th, Google Co-Founder Larry Page will assume responsibility for Google’s day-to-day operations as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin will turn his attention to strategic

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