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How Many People Are Still Using LinkedIn?
LinkedIn touted tens of millions of registered accounts in 2010 — but how many were actually active? On dormant users and network effects.
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Google Makes Another Attempt at Social Networking — Hotpot
Google's Hotpot brought friends' recommendations to local business ratings in November 2010. Another genuinely good Google social product that couldn't beat
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Bye Bye Gmail? Facebook Introduces Its Messaging System
Project Titan revealed: Facebook Messages — unified inbox, no subject lines, @facebook.com addresses. Zuckerberg said it was 'not an email killer.'
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Business News
Beating Google — One Face at a Time
In 2011 Google acquired a face-recognition startup — and then refused to ship the technology. The story of the one product Google held back.
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Google Makes Inflight Wi-Fi Free This Holiday Season
Google's Chrome team is footing the bill for free Gogo Wi-Fi on AirTran, Delta, and Virgin America flights from November 20 to January 2 — about 15 million
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Can Infosys move out of Murthy's shadow?
N.R. Narayana Murthy built Infosys into an idea as much as a company. Can India's most famous IT firm ever step out of its founder's shadow? An editorial.
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Lost in India — Dial 62 for Any Local City Information
Before smartphones, finding a local business in an Indian city meant phone directory services — one call and a patient operator did what Google Maps does now.
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Driverless Vans go from Italy to China
In 2010 two driverless vans drove 13,000 km from Italy to China. Nobody paid much attention then. The future of the automobile was already on the road.
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