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Six degrees: What does it mean to be Facebook friends?
Facebook released some pioneering social-networking research last night on its blog — the kind that only a company with over 700 million active users and 60 billion connections could help produce — that looked at how closely we are connected … Continue reading
Gates understands why Jobs said mean things about him
While some may have bristled at Steve Jobs calling Bill Gates an unimaginative copycat in the Jobs biography released last week, Gates says he was not one of those people. In fact, Gates says he totally gets why Jobs would, … Continue reading
What does Sony control of Sony Ericsson really mean?
Sony has just announced that it’s buying out the remaining 50 percent of the world’s sixth-largest handset maker, Sony Ericsson, from its Swedish partner, in a deal worth €1.05 billion ($ 1.46 billion). It’s 10 years since the two companies … Continue reading
What do Facebook’s changes mean for Google and Twitter?
Facebook sucked up most of the oxygen in the technology world on Thursday, with the launch of a series of fairly radical transformations of the giant social network, which now reaches about 800 million people (we’ve collected our coverage of … Continue reading
Why European VCs are lean, mean and more extreme
You’ve probably all heard the cliches about European startups and investors: venture money in Europe is more conservative, entrepreneurs are afraid of risk, the businesses are less ambitious and there are fewer blockbuster successes. These are trotted out all the … Continue reading