At 500 Startups' Smash Summit in New York today, Robert Scoble revealed that PayPal is launching something big with Facebook in two weeks, and that it would be a more expansive partnership than the existing PayPal-Facebook integrations. This announcement is coming at PayPal's X.commerce Innovate conference in two weeks, we've confirmed with the payments giant, and Katie Burke Mitic, who leads Platform Marketing for Facebook will be making an announcement.

Last year, PayPal announced its new mic [...]

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Internet trolls are known for posting rude, mean and offensive content around the web, in the hopes of sparking controversy, but 25-year old Sean Duffy took trolling too far and now he’s paying with jail time.  Duffy is serving 18 weeks in jail in the UK for videos and messages that he posted on Facebook and YouTube, mocking the deaths of teenagers.  If you ask us, he deserves much more.


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As I was browsing through my Facebook newsfeed this morning, something that Social Media Speaker and Trainer Mari Smith posted caught my eye. It was about the Crock Pot Girls Facebook page which has received over 1,000,000 likes in just 2 weeks! Mari posted, "How do you get over 1,000,000 fans in two weeks?! That's ...

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I Had Cancer is a free social network specifically for people suffering with cancer either directly or indirectly. The network launched in private beta late July, and is now in public beta. In the 3 weeks since it opened to the public, it's had over 3,000 users join from every state and surprisingly, from 62 countries.The network lies somewhere between WebMD and a few Internet forums, and it's similar to KnowCancer, a site "dedicated to connecting, educating and empowering all people affected by [...]

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Technology moves fast. But, Google has been moving a lot faster than usual to shut down projects. Let's take a look at the recent history of Google's media sharing subsidiary Slide. Google bought Slide for $182 million a year ago (August 2010). Slide went public with two photo sharing mobile apps this month.


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