Start-Ups Are in a Rush to Bring the Chat Room to the Smartphone
A wave of start-ups, including GroupMe, FastSociety and Beluga, are offering apps that allow multiple users to participate in smartphone text conversations.
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Kobe Bryant’s Parents Safe After Quake
LA Lakers star Kobe Bryant was set to face the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night after being assured that his parents, who were traveling in Japan, were safe within the disaster-struck country.
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Four Sites Impacted By Google’s “Farmer Update” Speak Out
It has been a little over two weeks since “hell broke loose” with Google’s Farmer/Panda algorithm update . Some sites that had been relying heavily on organic traffic saw that traffic plummet, while others gained. The changes impacted roughly 12 percent of US search results according to Google.
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