Tweet Opera founder Jon S. von Tetzchner has resigned from the company. In an email to Opera employees, von Tetzchner said that “It has become clear that The Board, Management and I do not share the same values and we do not have the same opinions on how to keep evolving Opera. As a result
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Tweet If you’re going to be participating in any kind of event, Causes.com has made sure that you can donate it to charity. Causes, the massive charitable giving site that got its start on Facebook, has relaunched its Wishes section.
Tweet Google is retiring two sites–Google Health and Google PowerMeter–due to low interest, the company announced. “We want to satisfy the most pressing needs for the greatest number of people,” Google wrote in a blog post. “In the case of these two products, our inability to scale has led us to focus our priorities elsewhere.”
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Tweet Wikipedia is now an undeniably good source of information on almost any topic. In order to continue improving, the community-edited site needs a continuous flow of volunteer editors willing to put time and energy into making new edits. And studies show that people are more willing to do that if they have been shown
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Tweet A hacking group known as TeaMp0isoN have published private information belonging to former Prime Minister Tony Blair.TeaMp0isoN have been in the news recently for allegedly hacking into a web site they claimed belonged to a member of LulzSec. This time they targeted a webmail server used by Tony Blair in December of 2010. It
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Tweet Scams continue to be a problem on Facebook, and the latest uses a ghoulish lure that we have seen before. Messages are spreading rapidly on the social network claiming to be of a video that a photographer took three days before he committed suicide. Or “commited” suicide, as the scam incorrectly spells it. Photographer
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Tweet Facebook’s incredible worldwide growth has reached another major milestone: the service now has 750 million monthly active users, according to a source close to the company. Techcrunch reached out to Facebook for confirmation, and a company spokesperson responded that they don’t have anything to announce at this time. That isn’t surprising: the company hasn’t
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