News: Business & Finance

• Now anyone can try Brizzly’s app for Facebook and Twitter
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 20 2009

  Brizzly, an application for managing messages in Twitter and Facebook, expanded its beta test today — now you don’t need an invite code, so anyone can use it. The application was created ...

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• Tweetmeme launches buttons for re-tweetable advertising
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 20 2009

  Twitter said it’s planning a large-scale advertising network soon, but U.K.-based Tweetmeme beat them to the punch with a monetization effort of its own today. The startup, which creates those ...

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• GreenBeat: Big thank you and media roundup
  Camille Ricketts
  Nov 20 2009

  Thanks to everyone who made it out to GreenBeat 2009 yesterday and Wednesday! We were thrilled with the turnout, and couldn’t be more grateful for all the support we received from attendees, ...

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• LaDiDa brings reverse karaoke to your iPhone
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 20 2009

  There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, “reverse karaoke,” to the App Store. There have been other ...

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• Google search marketing gets all touchy-feely
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 20 2009

  Google hasn’t traditionally engaged in large-scale advertising campaigns. Instead, it has relied mainly on word of mouth to become the $180 billion company it is today. However in the last ...

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• HP services engineers in UK vote to strike
  Leo King
  Nov 20 2009

  HP services engineers have overwhelmingly voted to go on strike, in what has become a bitter spat over pay and benefits. Some 77 percent of those who are members of the Unite trade union said they ...

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• Twitter COO Dick Costolo: Revenue is on and advertising is coming soon
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 20 2009

  Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at the Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. I’m taking some notes as we go. The big takeaways are that Twitter is making more than $4 million a year, but ...

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• Infoaxe — a real-time search engine that doesn’t rely on Twitter
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 20 2009

  Infoaxe, which records your web history and make it searchable, just launched a public facing real-time search engine tapping the behavior of its more than 2 million users. Infoaxe is a fairly unique ...

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• Nokia cuts research staff by up to 330 people
  Mikael Ricknäs
  Nov 20 2009

  Mobile phone giant Nokia on Friday said it will cut up to 330 people from its research and development staff. The changes are expected to affect up to 230 employees at Nokia's site in Oulu, Finland, ...

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• CloudMade pushing open-source alternative to Google Maps
  Mark Hattersley
  Nov 20 2009

  CloudMade is gearing up to release a set of tools that will enable people to quickly and easily contribute to the OpenStreetMap project. At the same time the company is looking to create a developer ...

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