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Vote iQ, the nation’s first major political social networking site, launched a sneak preview of its online platform at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York today. Vote iQ (www.voteiq.com) provides voters with rich content and access to politicians, candidates, interest groups, and current events, giving them a smarter way to interact politically. The company [...]
Google, Microsoft, NASA, the World Bank and Yahoo! are unlikely partners in a progressive initiative called Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) with the mission to mobilize a global community of technologists to solve real-world problems through technology. RHoK collaborates with subject matter experts to define problems and then sets loose the best and brightest hackers [...]
Playdom, a leading social gaming company, and Acclaim Games, a developer of social networking and downloadable casual games, announced today that Playdom has acquired Acclaim. Acclaim was privately held and is based in Los Angeles, California. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Since its establishment in 2006 under one of the gaming industry’s most [...]
Yelp (http://www.yelp.com), the community-led local search site, today announced the availability of Yelp France (http://www.yelp.fr). Representing its first non-English speaking country, people in France can now use Yelp.fr to read and share reviews about great local businesses in their native language. Additionally, Yelp users everywhere will have the option to view Yelp’s interface in French [...]
SocialGO (www.socialgo.com), the first platform for creating and monetizing social networks tailored to the needs of businesses, organizations and entrepreneurs, today released the following statement from its CEO and co-founder, Dominic Wheatley, in response to Ning’s recent announcement that it will begin charging its current customers:
“While we understand the business reasons behind Ning’s recent decision [...]
Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) today celebrated a significant milestone, surpassing 10 million domain names under management.
The rise to 10 million was led by Tucows’ wholesale services group, OpenSRS. OpenSRS provides domain name registration services through a reseller network of over 10,000 web hosting companies, ISPs, Internet consultants, and other service providers in over 100 [...]