Google has had a tough time in the past couple months or so, being more or less being positioned by the media as a company that is in danger of losing its top talent to Facebook. Especially when the news of its 10% crossways the board raises comes off as reeking of desperation during one of the worst talent crunches Silicon Valley has ever seen

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Google Trumps Facebook On List Of In Demand Employers Among College Students

So, LeWeb ’10 is coming up . Let’s state you’re looking for some good ideas of where to stay and what to do in Paris while you’re there

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Project Titan is coming . On Monday . That’s what we’ve heard from sources with knowledge of Facebook’s secret mail project.

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Yep, Facebook Takes Control Of Fb.com Ahead Of Mail Launch

Aol (err, us , I guess) will relaunch Aol Mail on Sunday afternoon, we’ve confirmed from sources close to Aol (hah).

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Aol To Unveil New Aol Mail On Sunday

Tumblr is attracting a lot of attention right now There is speak of a huge funding round in the works and it is making significant hires . Why all the interest?

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Why All The Interest In Tumblr? Try 1,540 Percent Pageview Growth

People state that I never state anything bad about the iPhone. Here’s something: its notification system is awful. In particular, I’m speaking about the way notifications are managed

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Boxcar 4.0 Pushes iPhone Notifications To The Next Level

We had the chance to interview YouTube Product Manager Hunter Walk at Gigaom’s NewTeeVee conference and speak to him about some of the milestones YouTube has reached since it was founded in 2005 (Warning, my voice is LOUD). Along with the impressive statistic that there are now 50,000 hours of new video uploaded regular ( 35 hours of video uploaded each minute, up from 24 hours a minute a few months ago), Walk revealed that YouTube now boasts over 2 billion video playbacks a day, 150 million of those being on mobile devices.

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Hunter Walk On YouTube By The Numbers And More (TCTV)

Sometimes the titles just write themselves. On Tuesday Virgin USA and Loopt partnered to offer people two-for-one tickets to Cancun or Los Cabos from California

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Virgin USA Rides Loopt Taco Truck Special To Fifth Largest Revenue Day Ever

Twitter is launching the first native app it’s built from scratch tonight, Twitter for iPad. Aimed at fostering content consumption, the app is designed for new users and power users alike

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Twitter Launches iPad App With Focus On Consumption

Right now, many of you are likely downloading iTunes 10 , the latest version of Apple’s media software. The most notable feature in this new version is Ping, Apple’s first stab at building a music social network (or really any kind of social network). It’s interesting on a number of levels, but even the most basic level is pretty interesting: Ping’s social graph.

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The iTunes Ping Social Question: Follow, Friend, Or Lurk?