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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent his first Twitter “tweet” message on Wednesday, then tried out video conferencing at Cisco Systems Inc as he made a quick tour of U.S. technology hub Silicon Valley, which he sees as a possible model for Russia to follow. Full Story;
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Cisco Systems Inc. said Wednesday it will invest $1 billion to help foster high-tech innovation in Russia. Full Story;
Are you a “Twitter influencer”? Check your e-mail to find out. If you meet the terms set out by Web analytics service Klout, you may already have received an offer for a free flight from San Francisco or Los Angeles to Toronto on Virgin Airlines. Full Story;
When managing a constantly expanding system with many moving parts, it is crucial to break the system into large numbers of small pieces and manage them with lots of small, dedicated teams, advised Bobby Johnson, who is director of engineering for Facebook, at the Usenix Annual Technical Conference in Boston. Full Story;
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Brands that use microblogging sites like Twitter to provide real-time responses to the public are winning a higher degree of trust from consumers, according to a study by a leading public relations firm. Full Story;
Salesforce.com officially launches Chatter today at Cloudforce 2010–the largest cloud computing event of the year. Chatter brings social networking to the enterprise in much the same way salesforce.com brought Web 2.0 to the enterprise–enabling the benefits of social networking to be utilized for new strategic advantages. Full Story;
Salesforce.com on Tuesday announced Chatter, its Facebook-like, real-time collaboration platform, that's free to all of its current customers. Full Story;
(Reuters) – Google Inc and Twitter Inc have asked an appeals court to overturn a lower court's decision to bar Theflyonthewall.com from issuing immediate news on analyst research from several Wall Street banks, court documents showed. Full Story;
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Americans trust technology heavyweights such as Apple, Google and Microsoft more than social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll. Full Story;
“I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner’s execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims.” Full Story;
Buyer beware, GQ BarSpy is for Australian iPhone app fans only. It won’t break your iPhone if you accidentally download it, but you won’t get much out of it. Full Story;
The gargantuan amount of high-quality user data on Facebook is causing everyone–from marketers to hackers–to salivate like dogs gazing at a steak. They all want a piece of you. Full Story;
BERLIN (AFP) – “My grandmother was three when she had to escape Nazi Germany with her family,” says Shiri Rosen, one of thousands of Israelis to have moved “back” to Germany in recent years. Full Story;
Responding to yet another user uproar, Facebook recently made efforts to simplify its privacy controls and introduce some other welcome changes. They're good steps to take–but considering that Facebook had to be forced to respect users' basic wishes regarding their own information, it suggests a serious disconnect in how the company and its users view privacy. Full Story;
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Supporters of the two candidates in Colombia's presidential run-off flooded the Internet on Saturday with urgent appeals for voters to cast ballots in an election that could suffer from low turnout. Full Story;
Scammers, spammers, purveyors of porn, hate mongers, and cyber predators — it's no wonder parents are paranoid about what their kids are doing online. Full Story;
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is defending his use of Twitter to tell the world that he had given the Department of Corrections the OK to execute a condemned man by firing squad. Full Story;
Friday morning’s execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner by firing squad seemed like a punishment straight out of the 19th century. But the mode of communication used to announce Gardner’s impending death was strictly 21st century: Twitter. Full Story;
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