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Sony takes control of Ericsson

Sony has bought out its Swedish partner Ericsson for €1.05 billion (

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TripAdvisor in hot water over ‘red flag’ feature

TripAdvisor’s new “red flag” feature seems to have landed the online travel review site in hot water, as the firm is now facing legal action from disgruntled hoteliers. According to Brand Republic , Deborah Sinclair of the Riverside Hotel and Restaurant and Evesham has initiated defamation proceedings against the travel review site, after her hotel’s TripAdvisor page was red-flagged. Ms Sinclair’s TripAdvisor page now features a warning sign and red text explaining that TripAdvisor has “reasonable cause” to believe that the hotel and its affiliates “may have interfered with traveller reviews”. Ms Sinclair claims that TripAdvisor’s decision to red flag her hotel’s page has undermined her credibility and will likely badly damage her business. As a result, Ms Sinclair has petitioned the courts, requesting that TripAdvisor be made to fully disclose how and why it came to red flag the hotel’s page. The court case is set to be closely watched by hoteliers, travel companies, online review sites and online reputation management agencies, as well as by brands and marketers, as friend reviews and consumer reviews have grown to further influence consumer’s purchase-making decisions

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Yahoo! launches new results pages as Silver Lake consider buyout

Despite the recent firing of its CEO Carol Bartz, Yahoo! is adopting a business-as-usual approach by launching improved search engine results pages [SERPs]. A cleaner design for the pages has been implemented with navigational filters and tabs showing related content such as videos and images. “At Yahoo! , we’re always looking for ways to make the Yahoo! Search experience even more organized and streamlined while serving the most relevant content,” Paul Ko, Girish Ananthakrishnan and Caroline Tsay wrote on the company blog . “We have been working to unify the search experiences across web, multimedia, and vertical search results pages with a design that is clean and intuitive.” However, much bigger changes may be in store for the company as investment firm Silver Lake Partners is reportedly mulling an acquisition offer for Yahoo! Bloomberg reported yesterday that Silver Lake’s plan includes the liquidation of Yahoo’s assets in Asia and focussing the firm’s core business elsewhere in hope of attracting a new buyer.

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Google unveils developer app platform for Google+

As new social networking site Google+ continues to evolve, Google has now unveiled the first developer application programming interfaces, and has also released public data APIs. Philip Tucker stated on the Google Blog his excitement regarding this next stage for Google+. “We want every one of you who builds applications to be able to include rich sharing, identity, and conversations in your app. Today, we’re taking the next step on that journey by launching the first of the Google+ APIs,” Tucker said. The new application programming interfaces will let developers create Google+ apps and integrate the social network into their existing apps. When creating their apps, developers will benefit from recently released API data which will allow them to query a single activity, action or person on Google+

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Submit Express Adds Blekko to Its Link Popularity Checking Tool

Submit Express offers a wide range of free tools to webmasters, website owners and other people who want to improve the scope and outreach of their websites. One of the most powerful free tools offered by Submit Express is its Link Popularity Check Tool, which lets users get detailed information about their site’s position and influence with various search engines. One click lets users see exactly how many back-links various sites have with the popular search engines.

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Ruby Rising, According to Search Engine Data

Data from products and services for accelerating open source software development firm, Black Duck, has shown an increase in the popularity of the Ruby programming solution.

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Groove Commerce CEO, to Headline PubCon

Groove Commerce’s Chief Executive Officer, Ethan Giffin, will be featured at this year’s PubCon event, from the eCommerce and lead generation website design, development, and marketing agency.

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