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Skype: a better match with Facebook than Google?
As two Internet powerhouses slug it out to tie the knot with Skype, Facebook looks likely to be a more aggressive suitor than Google , and the world’s largest social network may make for a better fit.
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Mobile shoppers are moving ad targets
Mobile advertising advocates believe the highly targeted ad platform trumps all other forms of marketing: What else, they argue, can provide real time, interactive customer service to consumers who have already decided that they want to receive communication from a brand?
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Facebook, Google considering Skype deals
Facebook and Google are separately considering a tie-up with Skype after the web video conferencing service delayed its initial public offering, two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.
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Facebook’s ‘Like’ button becomes force in e-commerce
Whether you just bought an airline ticket or a pair of jeans online, chances are an Internet search preceded the transaction. Now Facebook hopes to make its vast web of online social connections another central ingredient in the complicated dance between retailer and consumer.
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Cellphones? How about the market for two-way radios?
This may be the high-tech age of smartphones, email, texting, Twitter and Facebook, but a far more traditional form of wireless communicating -two-way radios -is reaping dividends for a North Vancouver company.
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Microsoft and RIM join forces
Research In Motion Ltd. and Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software company, on Tuesday announced a new partnership that will make Microsoft’s Bing search engine and mapping technologies the standard on RIM’s BlackBerry devices.
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Nortel gets court nods for 'stalking horse'
Nortel Networks Corp., the fallen telecom giant, said it had received court approvals for the "stalking horse" bid made by a unit of Google Inc. for its portfolio of technology patents for $900 million U.S.
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Dave Brown
Biking for Mother Earth on Mother's Day
First things first. Mom, happy Mother's Day. To my lovely wife, Jenny, happy Mother's Day to you, too (I think there's a present from Aidan coming with this morning's breakfast).
Ken Gray
Canada: the conservative nation
We are a conservative lot, we Canadians. It might explain the surge in support for the New Democratic Party. Maybe even the Tories, too.
Elizabeth Payne
Voter preferences can be a roll of the dice
Her name is Ruth Ellen Brosseau. She's a single mother from Gatineau and a pub manager in Ottawa and she has just become the most famous Canadian politician nobody had ever heard of until a few days ago.
Susan Riley
In with the new
'This is going to change so many things," veteran New Democrat Libby Davies said in the aftermath of her party's breakthrough on election night. "I think it's a whole new ball game. It's going to be a whole new kind of politics."
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