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Google Wants Groupon Because Social Ads Are the Future

After a week of on-and-off rumors about Google making an offer for Groupon, there are now multiple reports that the web giant is close to paying as much as $ 6 billion for the social-shopping service, which has been growing … Continue reading

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Google Wants Groupon Because Social Ads Are the Future

After a week of on-and-off rumors about Google making an offer for Groupon, there are now multiple reports that the web giant is close to paying as much as $ 6 billion for the social-shopping service, which has been growing … Continue reading

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The New Yorker on Email: It’s Funny Because It’s True

The New Yorker, that stuffy bastion of print, still managed to hit today’s technology shifts exactly on the head once again, with its Shouts and Murmurs humor column on email. The column manages to capture both the overwhelming influx of … Continue reading

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Privacy is Hard Because People Change Their Minds

If there’s one issue that unites major Internet giants like Google and Facebook, it’s privacy. Google tries to offer a new service with Buzz, and triggers a series of privacy land mines; Facebook tries to offer new services and runs … Continue reading

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The FCC Needs to Do the Hard Thing Because it’s What’s Right

Back in November 2007, I remember sitting in my office one evening and reading then-Senator Obama’s Technology and Innovation Platform for the first time. I was genuinely excited about this PDF. I was particularly taken by a paragraph that appeared … Continue reading

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