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Cool private companies: 3 software firms making a splash (and cash)
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Bottlenose is a social media dashboard that makes sense of the stream (invites)
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What’s coming next for Twitter: fewer fail whales, more users, more ads
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Pardot adds powerful social features into its cloud marketing automation
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Twitter adding promoted tweets to your stream this summer
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Amazon says some data unrecoverable after restoring cloud service
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Amazon cloud crash takes out everyone but Gaddafi
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Seesmic lands $4M more for listening to social enterprise customers
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Twitter takes another step towards in-stream ads
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Trendrr is the latest “social media” dashboard — but it’s got your location too
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4 must-have social-media dashboards for your business
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Twitter’s ad model takes shape with Promoted Accounts
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Social network dashboard HootSuite is ready for your money
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Involver helps companies track their brands across Facebook, Twitter
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Twitter starts scaling up its own link shortener. Watch out, Bit.ly!
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Twitter’s explosive Japanese growth fuels Softbank handset deal
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Foursquare declares platform-dom with launch of App Gallery
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Hootsuite simplifies Ow.ly URL shortener, plans vanity shorteners
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HootSuite targets agencies and groups with social collaboration tools
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Twitter acquires maker of Tweetie, stoking concern among developers
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KnowMore tries to find the good stuff from your Twitter, Facebook feeds
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Radian6 caps off first year in the black, as social media becomes profitable
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Twitter launches “At Anywhere” platform, integrates tweets, profiles across the web
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HootSuite acquires developer Swift App to bolster its Android efforts
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Nielsen Company reports 82 percent increase in time spent on social networks
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HootSuite upgrades platform, joins crowded social tracking and managing space
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Seesmic: Look will make Twitter more appealing to brands
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Seesmic goes after mainstream consumers, tablets with Look
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Predictions for 2010: Tablets will fail, Google will pummel Microsoft
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Twitter starts experimenting with its first real business feature
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HootSuite lets you schedule status updates on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
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Twitter-client Brizzly adds Facebook updates
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Twitter attacks intensify ten-fold; apps struggle to stay up
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HootSuite helps you manage your brand on Twitter (hey, it works for the White House)
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Who types Obama’s tweets?
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