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Last December, MSNBC acquired the Twitter account @breakingnews, which was started as a basic newswire by Michael van Poppel and gradually grew to 1.4 million followers (it's now up to over 1.6 million). A month later, MSNBC announced that it had acquired BreakingNews.com, which will has become a web portal for the online newswire. And today, it' […]

Aol launched Lifestream, a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall. Since then it has gained nearly 2 million users, say Aol. Based on that success Aol is now launching Lifestream as a standalone product at lifestream.aol.com. Like Friendfeed, Lifestream aggregates a number of third party social networks - Fa […]

Google just launched a new feature on the mobile version of Google Product Search which could take local shopping search startup Milo out at the knees. Whenever you do a Google product search from a mobile phone, blue dots will appear next to items which are in-stock at nearby stores. The image at right is from a search I just did for "HDTVs." […]

In January, private company stock marketplace SecondMarket published data on private company stock sales that they helped complete in 2009. And February's report showed the transactions that took place in January, which showed a strong demand for consumer products and services startups. The majority of transactions in January were sales of Facebook sto […]

Adobe Systems Inc. has expanded its leading hosted cross-media publishing platform to further automate the production, management and delivery of dynamic creative media for e-commerce and multi-channel marketing companies. The updates to Adobe Scene7 will provide these businesses with unique new editing and template-based production capabilities,... [[ This […]

According to data released at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, more than half of the social gamers responding to a survey said they would be “very likely” to complete a marketing action to earn virtual currency for the games they play on social networks. By comparison, only 22.8 percent said that they would be willing... [[ This is a content […]

After suffering one too many headaches from trying to keep track of all of his affiliate marketing accounts, one fed-up website entrepreneur finally came up with a streamlining solution of his own. The end result is a new aggregation service called LettuceLinks, designed to better analyze and monetize affiliates' website traffic. The free... [[ This i […]

Performance based advertising platform Hydra just gave the boot to 15,000 affiliate marketers and publishers. The company decreased its base of active publishers from 17,000 to less than 2,000 of its best performing partners in a bid to increase quality. "While performance-based CPA advertising networks have always paid lip service... [[ This […]