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Facebook dropped a late Friday bomb: The social networking giant is exiting the crowded local deals business, which it entered earlier this spring.

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Bloomberg Television’s Emily Chang has a great interview with Apple co-founders Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne on Steve Jobs:

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Games on Facebook are mostly a collection of new properties, like FarmVille and CityVille, which didnt exist before becoming popular time-sinks on the worlds largest social network. A start-up called Kabam is trying to change that with a new game based on The Godfather thats the most high-profile effort yet to blend an iconic Hollywood movie series with Facebook.

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Extracts from article by Sudheer Kuppam of Intel Capital in The Mint

Investor frenzy around the anticipated future listing of other Internet category leaders, such as Groupon (deal-of-the-day site) and Facebook (social media), is at a level not seen since 2000. While some debate that this is a sign of a tech bubble, the fact remains that many of these business models have generated unprecedented

As a business owner, you invest a lot of time building your business reputation and brand by communicating with current and potential customers. With the advancements taking place in the communication field, keeping up with the latest technology can be exhausting and overwhelming so putting off an upgrade is common but unnecessary. Fortunately, upgrading your [...]

The sexuality of CEOs is a dull subject I have no interest in what they do with their genitalia and I think I’m right in speaking for the majority of people in our Silicon Valley circles.

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Another pioneer of the computer industry Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft has tweeted his thoughts about Steve Jobs resignation as Apple CEO.

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Edited excerpts from the Press Release

Multiples Private Equity has made an investment in Sara Sae Pvt. Ltd. (earlier know as NOV Sara), a Dehradun-based manufacturer of drilling equipment. The financing will be used for the buyout of the 76% held in the company by National Oilwell Varco (NOV) in the company and to fund its growth plans. Sara Sae will enter the oil field equipment services

I’m in the process of expanding my services and part of that involves extending the range of my WI-FI. If you’ve even looked into bridging you might agree that it’s a daunting topic. I understand the premise behind it, but when they get into set-up that’s where my eyes cloud over. FYI: I am miserable [...]

I’ve been writing about Google’s Panda algorithm change and the huge amount of pain that it’s caused for content websites since it was introduced in late February.

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