More than 100 billion text messages are sent every month in the U.S. But that’s not enough for Zipwhip founder John Lauer who thinks the growth of text messaging has been held back since it is primarily contained to the mobile phone. Lauer and his team at Zipwhip are looking to change that, creating a [...]

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USA Today, the nation’s top selling daily newspaper, is expanding its offerings on Amazon’s electronic reader, the Kindle. The paper, which first jumped on the Kindle bandwagon in January, said it’s putting a number of its blogs and "online communities" on the electronic reader.
USA Today’s new digital move comes the same week it took a [...]

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The race for 1 million followers on Twitter is on: In one corner is CNN; in the other, Ashton Kutcher. Just a few weeks ago, no one was close to reaching that benchmark. Now, as users have flocked to the increasingly popular microblogging site, the numbers have grown. , more 

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Warehouse clubs Â? those big-box stores that charge annual membership fees and sell everything from gigantic plastic jugs of Heinz ketchup to flat-panel TVs and bulk-sized paper products Â? are aggressively courting small-business owners these days. And itÂ?s no surprise: Small-business growth is seen as inevitable as more laid-off workers start businesses.
Wal-Mart-owned SamÂ?s Club just [...]

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Consumers aren’t the only ones trading down. With rising food costs, the nation’s restaurateurs and cooks are getting conscientious about what they put on the menu, with some using cheaper cuts of meat and value-friendly ingredients such as rice and hot dogs, according to the third annual chef’s survey by QSR magazine, a trade publication [...]

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, more  and Intel Says PC Demand ‘Bottomed’  , more 
and Dendreon Prostate Vaccine Boosts Survival  , more 
Time to Buy TV, Radio, and Internet Ads?  , more 

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A Lebanese company has plans to educate 5m students worldwide, more  and Mainspring of change  Bob Betts has brought new dynamism to clockmaker Smith of Derby, more 
and A sense of dread ails the opinion-makers  The downsizing is having a disproportionate effect on the morale of the educated classes, and therefore our outlook on the world, writes Luke [...]

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ExtraHop Networks today is announcing $5.1 million in funding from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, former Opsware CEO Ben Horowitz and Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group.
Founded by former F5 Networks employees Raja Mukerji and Jesse Rothstein, ExtraHop’s appliance allows corporations to more effectively analyze and resolve network problems. Rothstein, who co-founded the company after six years [...]

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More than 2,100 passengers have tested Alaska Airlines’ new Wi-Fi system, with the overwhemling majority indicating that they would like to try it again. Alaska introduced the system on one Boeing 737-700 in late February. The airline — which is offering the service for free during the trial period — said it is still trying [...]

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Time to update those Windows machines. Microsoft today released eight security bulletins addressing more than 20 vulnerabilities in products including Windows, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. Ten of the vulnerabilities have highest rating of "critical."
Ben Greenbaum of Symantec Security Response said in an emailed statement that one of the Internet Explorer bugs is particularly troubling.
“Vulnerability [...]

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