Danish Mobile Social Network ZYB Acquired By Vodafone For €31.5 million

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TechCrunch | 05/16/08 4:09

ZYB, a mobile social network that we gave high marks to in August 2007, has been acquired by Vodafone for €31.5 million, or about $50 million. The company had raised just €3 million in venture capital. ZYB was smart in how they built their service. At first they were a simple address book backup-to-web service. But [...]

  Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden

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TechCrunch | 05/16/08 3:22

The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around control of user profiles and, therefore, users themselves. And their three new products, Data Availability, Facebook Connect, and...

  Android vs. LiMo: What’s the difference?

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TechCrunch | 05/16/08 3:15

With LiMo’s recent announcement that Verizon had hopped onto their Board of Directors, things are starting to heat up between the LiMo platform and Google’s competing product, Android. Both are open-source Linux-based platforms, and both are aiming to rock the handset market sometime in the next year or so. LiMo...

  Myanmar: Video in Cyclone Nargis' aftermath

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Global Voices Online - Breaking News | 05/16/08 3:12

Despite restrictions on journalists imposed by the Burmese junta who govern the country, people have been going out and recording what is really happening to the victims of this natural disaster. On May 2nd, 2008, Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar(Burma), generating massive damage with 38, 491 people dead and 27, 838 missing....

  Video: Burma/Myanmar in Cyclone Nargis' aftermath

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Global Voices Online - Breaking News | 05/16/08 3:12

Despite restrictions on journalists imposed by the Burmese junta who govern the country, people have been going out and recording what is really happening to the victims of this natural disaster. On May 2nd, 2008, Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar(Burma), generating massive damage with 38, 491 people dead and 27, 838 missing....