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Russian trademarks emoticon. Internet feels :-(

December 12, 2008

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A Russian entrepreneur has trademarked the popular emoticon making other entrepreneurs that didn’t think of it first Oleg Teterin, president of Russian mobile ad firm Superfone claimed that he was not planning on chasing down individual users of the emoticon: “I want to highlight that this is only directed at corporations, companies that are trying [...]

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To acquire or not to acquire: Facebook and Twitter deal no more

November 27, 2008

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It has been recently announced that popular social bookmarking site Facebook will no longer be acquiring up and coming micro-blogging website Twitter. Facebook have in the past publically admitted to being a fan of Twitter, however, due to several reasons, a potential deal could not be agreed. The popularity of Twitter has grown significantly in [...]

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