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The Top 10 Domains on Sharing with Twitter: UberTwitter Is More Popular than Facebook
SALabs has a data tap into Twitter data and have been looking at the data around content sharing. When I look at the data here is what I’m seeing for Twitter usage and platform popularity. Here is the list of the most popular domain platforms for sharing on Twitter 1. Web Obviously, the web based ...
HP 3Com Exclusive: HP’s Marius Haas to Cisco: “We’ll Bring It.”
With HP’s announcement of the acquisition of 3Com for $2.7 billion it will be known as the day the HP Cisco “cold war” escalated to full on war. November 11, 2009 was the day the opening shot of the Cisco HP Networking and Server War was fired. I sat down yesterday evening with HP’s Senior ...
Blackberry Developer Conference – They Want to Friend Everyone
Update from event: The points below are NOT quotes. They are paraphrased and/or my own personal liberal interpretations. I cannot emphasize this point enough; nobody from RIM actually said these words. 1. We are the carrier’s friend. Bandwidth is extremely constrained, and upgrading networks costs tens or hundreds of billions of dollars. All-you-can-eat data plans ...
Blekko and The Google Killer Jinx
The worst thing that any startup can do is say that they are a Google killer. It is natural for Rich Skrenta the founder of Blekko – a search engine – messaging the opposite. Rich writes: “…there is no such thing as a Google killer. No company is going to play David to their Goliath ...