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Cisco Interested in Jabber; IM

Cisco Systems Inc said on Friday it plans to buy privately held Jabber Inc, which specializes in instant messaging software, to bolster its own line of Internet-based communications products.

Vyew: Web Conferencing Reaching New Levels

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This week Vyew released version 3 of its browser-based collaboration tool.

MyPunchBowl.com Raises $2 Million in Funding

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Contour Venture Partners is the lead investor in a new Series A round for Punchbowl Software, which makes event-planning and invitation start-up MyPunchbowl.

Twitter Execs Talk About the Future

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A trio of Twitter executives--Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Alex Payne--showed up at the BearHug Camp, held at CNET headquarters in San Francisco, to answer questions about the future of the service, su

CNET's Top 10 from TechCrunch 50

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As usual with conferences like this, many of the products were either derivative or best described as cool, new features that will be commonplace in a year.

Optimum Launches Free Wi-Fi in NY & On LIRR

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Cablevision has done a good job of withstanding the Verizon FiOS assault by rolling out really high speed Internet along with other services to its customer base in the tri-state region of the U.S.

Zillow.com Teams Up w/ Newspapers for Ads

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U.S. home price comparison website Zillow.com and 11 U.S. newspaper publishers are starting an online advertising network to help each capture real estate advertising dollars.

Google: 10 Reasons it's the Business of the Future

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Matthew Glotzbach from Google's enterprise products group took the stage at the Office 2.0 conference Thursday with a talk called, "10 Things I could do in the cloud today that I couldn't do a year ag

LinkedIn Joins Forces w/ CNBC

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Business news channel CNBC and professional networking site LinkedIn have formed a strategic alliance.

Lessons to Learn from Yahoo's Mash Failure

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Let's hope Yahoo has finally learned that the maxim "If you build it, they will come" simply does not apply to a social network.

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