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Reuters – Verizon Communications Inc on Friday asked a federal appeals court to block the Federal Communications Commission from imposing new rules on how Internet service providers manage their networks.

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Mashable – Ronald Brown is a successful startup CEO with an extensive background in technology and consumer marketing. His new book, Anticipate. The Architecture of Small Team Innovation and Product Success is available via iTunes, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo.
Creativity is the main prerequisite for innovation. However, our culture emphasizes critical thinking to the near exclusion of creative thinking (although it was the key to success in the Information Age). Today’s business is dominated by global complexity and commoditization. On the other hand, experts believe that creativity will be the driving force behind business success in the coming decades.

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Mashable – Google may still be the world’s most visited website with users spending nearly 2 hours on the site in a given month. But the average U.S. Internet user spends nearly 4 times the amount of those hours on Facebook, according to a new study.
Nielsen says 176.2 million people in the U.S. visited Google in August. That’s more than Facebook (163.2 million), Yahoo (149.0 million), Microsoft (134.4 million) and YouTube (128.0 million).

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Appolicious – It turns out the iTunes App Store might be a little more like the Android Market than previously believed, at least in terms of the fact that many game developers struggle with exposure, while a small group rakes in a lot of revenue.

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Reuters – Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week.

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Appolicious – Question-and-answer community website Quora has finally come to the iTunes App Store with an app that taps you in to experts, community members and anyone else who can dish out information when you need a question answered. Read about it below, and then get some more specific answers from Chefs Feed, an app that gets restaurant recommendations from actual chefs, rather than just other users. …

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Mashable – A chiropracter in Ottawa gave an unusual invitation to the World Wide Web this week.

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Reuters – With online business increasingly driving economic growth, developing nations’ top priority should be the infrastructure their citizens need to get connected, delegates at an Internet conference in Nairobi said this week.

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Reuters – Online poker site, Full Tilt Poker, which U.S. federal prosecutors have accused of running a Ponzi scheme, had its gambling license revoked by Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC), the gambling regulator said on Thursday.

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Mashable – Jim Wulforst is president of E*TRADE Financial Corporate Services, which provides employee stock plan administration solutions to both private and public companies, including 22% of the S&P 500.
Perhaps you’ve heard about the Google millionaires: 1,000 of the company’s early employees (including the company masseuse) who earned their wealth through company stock options. A terrific story, but unfortunately, not all stock options have as happy an ending. Pets.com and Webvan, for example, went bankrupt after high-profile Initial Public Offerings left their stock grants worthless.

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Mashable – USA Network launched a fun new interactive social media mystery game tie-in for its hit TV show Psych.
The game is called #HashTagKiller and it takes place on the Web using Facebook’s Open Graph API. The game launched on Wednesday and will unfold online over the next seven weeks. The game uses video created with the cast specifically for the game, as well as puzzles, clues and Facebook messages between series leads Shawn and Gus.

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Reuters – The latest high-profile celebrity trial has celeb watchers everywhere tuned in on TV and the Interwebs, and now, of course, there’s a cell phone app to make sure people don’t miss a minute of coverage of the Conrad Murray trial.

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AP – Amazon’s unveiling of the Kindle Fire tablet computer sends a bright-hot message: The online retailer is ready to rival iPad maker Apple in an effort to be the world’s top digital content provider.

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BusinessWeek

A Lie Detector Test for Online Reviewers BusinessWeek In February, the owner of a home improvement company in Texas posted an advertisement online for “a writer who can write and post 25 positive reviews” on eight popular websites, including Yelp, Google Places, and Citysearch. …

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Appolicious – The great-looking third-person shooter based on the Unity engine, Shadowgun, has finally hit the iTunes App Store. It’s beautiful and quite a bit of fun, and it leads this week’s best iPhone games. It’s a mite on the expensive side though, so we’ve populated the rest of this list with some fun, cheaper offerings to give your wallet a break, too.

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Reuters – Canada will reintroduce copyright legislation on Thursday as it grapples with the realities of the Internet age and tries to balance the demands of consumers with concerns from the movie industry.

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AP – Pop stars are lining up to make their debut in Facebook games from online game maker Zynga.

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Reuters – Facebook’s head of mobile marketing has joined the board of directors of eBay Inc, expanding the size of the board.

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AP – Nine privacy groups have sent a joint letter to the Federal Trade Commission saying it should investigate the ways Facebook collects data about users’ online activity after recent changes to its site.

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NewsFactor – For all the talk about the Amazon Kindle Fire, which is looking to eat into Apple’s iPad tablet dominance with a $199 price tag, there’s web-browsing software behind the Fire that could also help differentiate the device among its competitors.

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AP – Blekko, a Silicon Valley startup trying to build a spam-free search engine, is getting some love from Russia.

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Mashable – Blekko, a search upstart that believes in human curation, has added $30 million in fresh funding to its coffers and has found a new strategic partner — thanks to Russian Internet company Yandex.
Blekko is on a quest to build a search engine free of spam, content farms and malware. Its goal is to eke out a small percentage of the U.S. search market, currently dominated by Google. The startup has always contented that owning just 1% of all searches could turn it into a billion-dollar business.

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Mashable – Google for the first time is providing a window into real-time web traffic with Google Analytics Real-Time.
Real-Time reports are available in the new version of Google Analytics, and administrators with Analytics accounts will get Real-Time reports. Google turned the new feature on Thursday for “a number of you,” John Jersin, product manager at Google Analytics wrote on the Google Analytics blog.

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AP – Eight of every 10 members of Congress are on Facebook and Twitter, but social media experts say lawmakers should be more interactive in using online communication tools to reach out to young people, one of their most elusive constituent groups.

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Reuters – With holiday shopping season near and billions of dollars in sales tax at stake, financially strapped state and local governments are pushing to collect more tax on online purchases, but real progress will require action in Washington where political gridlock prevails.

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Mashable – Alisa Gould-Simon is the Director of Marketing & Communications at Pose.com, a free mobile shopping application. She is a fashion consultant and writer and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal. You can follow her on Twitter at @alisagouldsimon.
The advent of blogging has dramatically changed the face of the fashion industry — and fashion media in particular — in just a few years. Fashion bloggers have evolved from stigmatized outsiders to lauded insiders, sending scores of seasoned marketing executives and editors’ heads spinning.

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Costly Internet radio royalty rates left Pandora on the brink of extinction in the summer of 2008. The popularity and success of its mobile apps kept the company afloat until mid 2009, when a more favorable royalty deal was struck with record labels. Today, the newly public company looks healthier than ever.

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Reuters – In the age of iTunes and an-app-for-everything, Joel Tenenbaum’s battle with the music industry over illegal downloading seems as relevant as an eight-track cassette.

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Reuters – (Reuters) Groupon launched its online retail arm Groupon Goods for its American subscribers on Wednesday, moving beyond daily group discounts to compete with leaders like Amazon Inc.

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Reuters – Amazon.com Inc, the world’s largest online retailer, is using bricks-and-mortar stores to help sell its new tablet computer.

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Reuters – In the age of iTunes and an-app-for-everything, Joel Tenenbaum’s battle with the music industry over illegal downloading seems as relevant as an eight-track cassette.

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AP – It isn’t a pretty picture at Yahoo Inc. right now, but that’s not stopping the beleaguered Internet company from touching up its popular photo-sharing service, Flickr.

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Reuters – Amazon.com Inc’s aggressive pricing on its Kindle devices leaves Barnes & Noble Inc little choice but to match the online retailer and update its own devices, even if that means more damage to the bookstore chain’s bottom line.

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AP – A media and Internet advocacy group sued the federal government Wednesday over its new rules covering Internet traffic, saying they don’t protect wireless traffic from interference by phone companies.

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Reuters – Public interest group Free Press filed a petition for review in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on Wednesday, challenging U.S. Internet rules set to go into effect November 20.

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AP – Facing weakening support among Hispanics, President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration Wednesday over what he called an inaccurate and damaging perception that he can fix the nation’s flawed immigration system on his own.

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AP – Groupon has come up with another way for bargain hunters to save money as the online coupon distributor prepares to raise money from wary investors.

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Mashable – Amazon has gotten into Groupon’s daily deals business and now Groupon is repaying the favor with Groupon Goods, an online retail site.
Groupon sent emails to select customers on Wednesday promoting the new offering, which offered deals on pilates, coffee brewers and LED TVs. “(The offer is) already seeing good results,” a source told Reuters. “Groupon Goods is the buzz around Groupon. It can add significant impact to Groupon’s growth strategy.” The company has posted an FAQ with more details about the program.

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Mashable – Videos are just about the biggest thing on the Internet right now, according to a study from Wistia, a video-hosting company.
The infographic shows that 71% of Internet users visit video-sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo. This number has shot up from just 33% in 2006. The graphic also shows interesting demographic stats like the fact that minorities and people with kids are more likely to visit video sites.

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AP – Zoya Amirin has come across every myth imaginable in her job as sex psychologist in Indonesia: An uncircumcised girl will become sex-crazed. Clove cigarettes increase virility. A gecko’s saliva can cure AIDS.

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Mashable – The Stars of Social Good Series is supported by CITGO and the Fueling Good Campaign, helping to change the world through contributions to local charities.
It’s one thing to say that celebrities can help non-profits raise money and awareness. It’s another thing to actually call a celebrity like George Clooney or Brangelina and get them onboard.

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7 ways to combat a negative online review Boston Globe (blog) Online review sites like Yelp, Zagat, and Citysearch have in many ways become too influential in determining the reputation of businesses everywhere, especially on a local level. With the increased importance of online search, review sites are …

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Reuters – China’s largest Internet company Tencent Holdings Ltd plans to cooperate with American Express Co to provide cross-border online payments, a source said on Wednesday, as the country’s electronics commerce sector grows rapidly.

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Reuters – Google has thrown its weight behind Tech City, East London’s fast-growing hub for Internet companies, by signing a lease for a seven-floor building that will serve as a launch-pad for new start-ups and developers.

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Reuters – Maria Macias used the Internet to denounce the brutality of local drugs lords in this Mexican border city until they silenced her and dumped her headless body on a busy street.

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Wall Street Journal

Welcome to the Boardroom: Chelsea Clinton Joins Diller Wall Street Journal IAC, with a market capitalization of $3.4 billion, owns a wide variety of Internet businesses, including dating site Match.com, CollegeHumor, Shoebuy.com and Citysearch. It also publishes Newsweek magazine. IAC's stock has risen 41% this year. … Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp gains influence with Chelsea ClintonDaily Caller Chelsea Clinton joins IAC board of directorsCBS News Chelsea Clinton Joins Iac Interactive Corp BoardPortfolio.com (blog) Mogulite -The National Enquirer all 94 news articles »

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AP – While Syrian protesters and security forces are engaged in a war of attrition on the ground, a different kind of battle is emerging online.

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Mashable – Ashton Kutcher is leveraging his new gig on Two and a Half Men to provide exposure for some of his most prominent startup investments — via the back of his laptop.
Kutcher, who replaced Charlie Sheen after Sheen’s public meltdown, plays a heartbroken Internet billionaire named Warren Schmidt. So far, viewers have been receptive to the switch: Kutcher’s debut episode last week drew an astounding 28.7 million viewers, while this week’s show still attracted more than 20 million viewers.

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