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Amazon shuts down eBook loans via Lendle

March 22, 2011 by Meris Stansbury

Since Amazon gave Kindle users the ability to loan their eBooks in December, we've seen a number of startups launch in the eBook lending space, creating networks to…

IT Leadership

LinkedIn launches social news site for professionals

March 11, 2011 by Meris Stansbury

LinkedIn the company is unveiling another piece of its strategy to make LinkedIn a destination site for more than just job-seekers, with the launch of LinkedIn Today, reports…

IT Leadership

Facebook raises $1.5 billion

January 24, 2011 by Meris Stansbury

If you thought Groupon's $950 million was big, hold on to your hats. Facebook has announced that it has raised $1.5 billion in funding at a $50 billion…

Campus Leadership

Obama’s internet plan sounds an awful lot like a national internet ID

January 11, 2011 by Meris Stansbury

White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt announce to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research on Friday that President Obama intended to turn over development of a national…

IT Leadership

Factual aims, credibly, to become Wikipedia 2.0

January 4, 2011 by Meris Stansbury

Imagine an online community that combines user contributions, editing and fact checking like Wikipedia, with automated data extraction like Google and complex artificial intelligence to create a rich…

IT Leadership

How Twitter use has changed, from 2009 to 2010

December 17, 2010 by Meris Stansbury

It's been a good year for Twitter, and not merely because the company announced yesterday it has secured another huge round of funding, reports ReadWriteWeb.