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  Breaking: Microsoft Kills Kin What’s @questlove gonna do now? Microsoft decided to halt work on its Kin phone and focus on developing and launching its Windows Phone 7, which is scheduled to be released for Holiday 2010. The company has stopped all plans to ship the Kin over to Europe. And this past weekend, Verizon slashed the prices of its two [...]

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  The Fast and the Lucrative: Tesla Motors Goes Public All eyes have been on Tesla Motors this week as they made the monumental step of becoming the first automotive company to go public in 54 years. The last company to jump into the public pool was Ford, way back in 1956. As Tesla made its debut on Wall Street, financial analysts projected that opening [...]

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  The iPhone is Coming to Verizon in January According to Bloomberg, the phone that has so many customers buzzing will finally be available on a carrier other than AT&T. Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, will start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone next year, ending AT&T Inc.’s exclusive hold on the smartphone in the U.S., two people familiar with the plans said. The largest carrier [...]

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  Preview the Latest Facebook Profile Feature: Interesting Stuff Isn’t that just like Facebook? Just when you get comfortable with one set of features, it rolls out another. While perusing Facebook, our executive editor, Robin Caldwell noticed that when you hover your mouse over your name or someone else’s a nifty new badge pops up displaying a photo, and the pics of common friends [...]

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  Trend with Truth: Kat Stacks’ Digital Beatdown Apparently, getting beat up twice in one month, warrants your name becoming a Twitter trending topic. News broke this morning that Kat Stacks had once again been the victim of a physical altercation and just like the previous incident, there was video for all to see.  And so the web started buzzing, particularly Twitter. As the #Katstacks [...]

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  Mint Makes Tracking Financial Goals Easier Mint.com just added a feature that may make your life that much easier and help you reach those financial goals you’ve been dreaming about. There are many tools out there for tracking your finances and setting up budgets. These range from desktop applications to web apps like Mint, Buxfer, and Xpensr. Most will tie into [...]

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  Foursquare Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding As Foursquare board member Bryce Roberts puts it, the “wire transfer heard ‘round the world” was authorized yesterday. The amount was a cool $20 million and it concludes a long and drawn out battle regarding Foursquare’s future. Early on, CEO Dennis Crowley toyed with the idea of actually selling the company. Yahoo and Facebook were [...]

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  See How Much Your ‘Friendship’ is Worth: Facebook Valued at $23 Billion Reuters is reporting that Facebook the world’s largest social netwstockork is worth $23 billion. That’s roughly $50 per “friend” who rents “free” profile space on the site. Private equity firm Elevation Partners purchased $120 million in Facebook stock from private shareholders, valuing the company at $23 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. The stock [...]

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  Hulu Goes Premium: Are You Willing to Pay? Hulu’s basic service remains as of today, but they are taking early orders for those of you who want Hulu the enhanced experienced or better, HuluPlus.  The premium subscription service will cost $9.99 per month and at this time access is only by preview and invitation only. (You can request a preview invite here.) I’ve already [...]

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  Windows 8 Strategy Leaked Looks like another employee has accidentally leaked company secrets. Well, not secrets about his own company. It seems one Derek Goode, in possession of slides on Windows 8, posted them online in a public place. Probably by accident, but you never know. An Italian blog then got their hands on the slides and the web [...]

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  Meet Rodney Witcher, Creator of Pluckshot If you have been following Black Web 2.0 for the past few months, you are aware we had the first annual NewMe Conference which included a segment called The Pitch. Out of hundreds of contestants, the fourth place winner this year was Rodney Witcher and his creation known as Pluckshot. Let's take a closer look at what makes Pluckshot a service to keep a close eye on. Read more details inside.

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