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ZDNet News - 5 hours, 29 minutes ago
PayPal suspends service in India - Online payment service provider PayPal has put some of its services in India on hold, and is reversing funds requested through PayPal India, according to reports.

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ITWeb News Feed - 11 hours, 17 minutes ago
PayPal suspends India services - In this World Wide Wrap: PayPal suspends India services, EU considers new e-retailer rules, and e-commerce initiative for SMEs.


Soren Gordhamer / Mashable! - 22 hours, 22 minutes ago
5 Levels of Effective Communication in the Social Media Age - In the era of social media, our networks are much larger than they have ever been, and we have more ways to communicate with those in them.

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Micro Persuasion - 23 hours, 53 minutes ago
Trust in Friends Declines, Trust in Experts Rises - Social Media and PR Still Win - Last week Edelman, my employer, published our tenth annual Trust Barometer study. You can read the full report here. One of the more juicy statistics that Advertising Age and others noted is that trust in peers surprisingly dropped...


Yahoo Finance - 6 hours, 3 minutes ago
IAC Reports Q4 Results - IAC released fourth quarter 2009 results today.
Wall Street Journal

Eric Savitz / BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online - 1 day, 4 hours ago
Citi Launches Broadcom With Buy Rating, $35 Target - Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung this morning picked up coverage of Broadcom (BRCM) with a Buy rating and $35 price target. The stock closed Friday at $27.71.“We view Broadcom as a classic growth story whose prospects are amplified by...
FOXBusiness.com, Electronista

Electronista - 1 day, 4 hours, 55 minutes ago
Dell Mini 10 with WiMAX surfaces at FCC - Dell through an FCC filing (PDF) has let slip that the new Mini 10 will soon get a version with WiMAX. The netbook should get Intel's WiFi-Link 6250 and will incorporate both the 4G wireless as well as 802.11n Wi-Fi in a single chipset.
SlashGear

Electronista - 1 day, 3 hours, 15 minutes ago
NVIDIA considering external notebook graphics - NVIDIA is considering introducing its first true external notebook graphics, a company executive says. According to a recent Xbitlabs report, NVIDIA notebook GPU division general manager Rene Haas sees a big opportunity in such a market.

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Joanna Stern / Engadget - 18 hours, 39 minutes ago
NVIDIA pursuing external graphics accelerators for laptops? - It's not everyday that we can say there's external laptop GPU love in the air, but right on the heels the appearance of the Gigabyte M1405 with its GeForce GT220 dock, NVIDIA is expressing interest in external laptop GPUs as well.


Wall Street Journal - 1 day, 13 hours, 41 minutes ago
IBM Launches New Chips, Servers - IBM says its Power7 chip is four times faster than its predecessor, hoping this will extend the computer giant's edge in the market for midrange servers.
WebProNews

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider - 4 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes ago
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I've Got Three Kindles. I Hate All Three Of Them." - "I've got three Kindles.  I hate all three of them."       -- Norm Pearlstine, Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg  Read the rest of this story »See Also:Steve Jobs Says Book Publishers Hate Amazon's...
Yahoo! News (Wire Services), Lifehacker, GigaOM, paidContent.org, Macworld UK News, Portfolio.com: Tech Observer, CrunchGear, Mashable!, Gizmodo, Engadget, Tech Blog, ZDNet Blogs

Electronista - 3 days, 23 hours, 45 minutes ago
Steve Jobs also seen visiting Time on Friday - Following visits to newspapers, Apple chief Steve Jobs has been seen on Friday visiting the offices of Time Inc. The New York City visit is believed to have involved showing the iPad both to the Time publisher's chief executive Ann Moore...
Apple 2.0, The Register, The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Matt Burns / CrunchGear - 6 days, 20 hours, 45 minutes ago
Newegg and Amazon cuts the Zune HD price by $30-$40 - The Zune HD is a tempting piece of PMP goodness and it just got a whole lot more tasty with a modest price drop. Both Amazon and Newegg have at least temporarily dropped the price of our favorite media player.
Engadget, Gadgetell

Yahoo Finance - 5 hours, 3 minutes ago
Z57, Inc. Internet Marketing for Real Estate Agents Reports 2009 Client Acquisition Up 107% - Z57, Inc., an industry leader of real estate online marketing services, announced 2009 new client acquisition was up 107% over 2008. This increase occurred during continued recessionary times.

Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 6 hours, 2 minutes ago
Online ad improvement seen in IAC's 4Q loss - AP - Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online advertising market...

TheStreet.com - 13 days, 19 hours, 45 minutes ago
Yahoo Tops Street; Shares Rise - Yahoo posts a better-than-expected quarter; investors hope it means an end to cratering advertising spending.
CNNMoney.com, The Technology Chronicles, San Francisco Chronicle

TheStreet.com - 11 days, 12 hours, 40 minutes ago
Samsung Swings to Profit, Sees Big 2010 - Samsung swung to a profit in the fourth quarter, earning 3.05 trillion won ($2.63 billion) on sales that were 37% higher.
NYT > World Business, EETimes, All Things Digital

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) / Between the Lines - 11 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes ago
Amazon earnings: Strong Q4 on holiday season sales - Amazon reports strong Q4 earnings, beating Wall Street's expectations.
FOXBusiness.com, CNNMoney.com

MarketWatch - 11 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes ago
Cisco expected to post gains in profit, sales - Cisco Systems is expected to report a 3% gain in quarterly sales, as the maker of networking gear gets a lift from strengthening demand for corporate information technology gear.
Yahoo! News (Wire Services)

AdWeek - 5 days, 5 hours, 58 minutes ago
Monster Deal: Yahoo Sells HotJobs for $225 Mil. - Yahoo has found a buyer for HotJobs. The Web giant has unloaded the site to rival Monster Worldwide for $225 million in cash.
The Register, ClickZ News, Search Engine Watch Blog, TheStreet.com, New York Times, MediaPost, Reuters, Business Week, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), VentureBeat, New York Times: DealBook, Silicon Alley Insider, San Jose Mercury News, Webware.com, WebProNews, Tech Trader Daily, MarketWatch, Search Engine Journal, All Things Digital, CenterNetworks, Between the Lines, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land

Mike Sachoff / WebProNews - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
Search Engines Impact Perception Of Brands - The search engine consumers use to find a brand's website impacts both their perception of that brand and the decisions they make while on the site, according to new research by Wunderman, ZAAZ, and Compete. "Search begins with the...

Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider - 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
Yahoo To Shutter "Yahoo! Tech" - Yahoo has posted a notice that its tech site, Yahoo! Tech, will be shutting down for good on March 11. All user profiles and ratings will be wiped, and tech.yahoo.com will redirect to the tech section of Yahoo! News. Read the rest of this...

Kelsey Childress / Search Engine Land - 1 day 41 minutes ago
The iPad As Platform For SEM & Social Media Marketing -
iMedia Connection, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!

Frank Reed / Marketing Pilgrim - 6 hours, 36 minutes ago
Study Shows Facebook’s Retail Appeal - Everyone in the world of marketing whether you are online or offline (or hopefully the right combination of the two) wants to better define social media and its uses.

Jalen Rose / Mashable! - 3 days, 20 hours, 51 minutes ago
8 Social Media Resources for Super Bowl XLIV - Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN sports analyst but may be best known for being a member of the famous University of Michigan Fab Five.The big game is this weekend.
San Francisco Chronicle, Search Engine Journal

Tim Conneally / BetaNews - 4 days, 22 hours, 56 minutes ago
ISPs are not responsible for illegal downloading, says Australian court - By Tim Conneally, Betanews Australian federal courts have decided that the country's second largest ISP, iiNet, is in no way responsible for the illegal actions of its subscribers.In 2008, iiNet was sued by more than 30 film and television...
Wired Top Stories, BBC News, ReadWriteWeb

Doug Caverly / WebProNews - 6 days, 3 hours, 57 minutes ago
Yahoo Loses Patent Infringement Case, $12.4 Million - IMVironments - the little background themes for Yahoo Messenger - have gotten Yahoo in a lot of trouble.  The company's lost a patent infringement case that concerns them, and as a result, is supposed to pay a subsidiary of Acacia...
TechCrunch, Seattle Times

By DEALBOOK / New York Times: DealBook - 4 days, 7 hours, 10 minutes ago
S.E.C. Drops Civil Action Against Broadcom Execs - The Securities and Exchange Commission says it will not pursue a civil action for stock option backdating filed against four of Broadcom's former executives.
MarketWatch