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Disney Acquires Social Gaming Company Playdom for up to $763.2 Million

Disney has officially acquired Playdom, the makers of popular social games like Social City and Sorority Life, for $563.2 million, with an additional $200 million that could be paid out based on performance.The company is one of the remaining big playe…

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Text 2.0 Will Blow Your Mind (Or At Least Follow Your Eyes)

This is exactly the kind of experience I’d want from my eBook reader.  I currently read books on my Blackberry using MobiPocket but if there was a reader that could enhance the reading experience like this then I’d get one in a flash.  Even if it included background noises and ambient sound or music as I read [...]

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Google Makes Government Requests for User Info Public

Google just introduced an app called the Government Requests tool. It’s a Google Maps app that shows how many requests each nation’s government has made for users’ personal information or for the removal of URLs from Google’s search index.Goog…

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What is Internet to you?

One of the first ever news casts about the Internet was from the CBC and surprisingly insightful.

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Monetize HTML5 Video with mDialog’s Ad Platform

Today mDialog debuts a new video service platform designed to support HTML5, live streaming and dynamic ad-insertion in video streams.Publishers and content providers can now not only encode and serve live stream or Video On Demand content in HTML5, b…

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