News: Business & Finance

• Text mining taps into customer sentiment
  Kathleen Lau
  Apr 15 2009

  In tough economic times when vendors are faced with scaling back offerings to cut costs, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc. said text mining of unstructured data sources can reap valuable ...

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• Tired of the events mess on Facebook? Try Socializr
  Matt Marshall
  Apr 15 2009

  Socializr, a service that lets you organize your events online, has just released a cool new set of features that let you more easily see what events your friends are going to, and then track and ...

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• Roundup: MySpace history, Silicon Valley gloom, and more
  Eric Eldon
  Apr 15 2009

  Here’s the latest action: How Google overpaid for weak advertising inventory on MySpace — Entrepreneur Andrew Chen has published a tell-all blog post about his early years working at ad ...

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• Yahoo plans first major layoffs under new CEO
  hael Liedtke
  Apr 14 2009

  Yahoo Inc. is gearing up for its third round of mass layoffs in 14 months, signaling the long-slumping Internet company is still struggling to snap out of its financial malaise under a new ...

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• JumpTap launches mobile AdWords competitor
  Anthony Ha
  Apr 14 2009

  Heavily funded mobile search and advertising startup JumpTap is launching a new mobile ad marketplace called tapMatch, which it says will offer a more targeted approach than the competition. The ...

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• Single sign-on service OpenID getting more usage
  Eric Eldon
  Apr 14 2009

  After nearly four years of development and proselytization, social networking technology standard OpenID is beginning to show signs of going more mainstream on the web. The service is live in a ...

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• TripIt launches iPhone app — puts itineraries at your fingertips
  Camille Ricketts
  Apr 14 2009

  TripIt, the online service that lets you create and share your travel itineraries, has launched a free application for the iPhone. The app lets users view their meticulously organized travel plans on ...

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• Intel chief optimistic about computer industry’s recovery
  Dean Takahashi
  Apr 14 2009

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• Circuit City May Rise From Dead
  Jeff Bertolucci
  Apr 14 2009

  First CompUSA, now Circuit City. Electronics retailer Systemax is busy exhuming the remains of failed consumer electronics retailers, obviously hoping to persuade customers to remember the brand ...

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• Network companies secure nearly $20 million in VC cash
  Denise Dubie
  Apr 14 2009

  Despite the economic downturn, investment firms are putting their faith and funding into network start-ups that promise to help corporate IT better manage application performance, virtual systems ...

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