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Florida Primary: Can Social Media Predict the Winner?The Florida primary is shaping up to be an important battleground in the war for the Republican presidential nomination, and it’s getting plenty of attention on social media. Mashable asked social media analysis company Fizziology to determine the sentiment around each of the remaining can... Facebook to File for $5 Billion IPO on Wednesday [REPORT]Facebook will file a preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited IPO Wednesday morning, but the company will raise less than expected — $5 billion — according to a report. International Financing Review cites “sources close to the deal” who say the company is planning to r... Obama’s Google Hangout Wins Over Republican QuestionerIf you watched President Obama’s Google+ hangout Monday night, you saw two interesting exchanges between the president and Jennifer Wedel, a 29-year-old Texas mother of two. It turns out that Wedel’s digital meeting convinced her to vote for Obama in this year’s presidential el... Salesforce.com Launches a Customer Service Product for Small TeamsIn a step toward extending its enterprise cloud software offerings to small businesses, Salesforce.com launched a customer service product for small teams on Tuesday. The product, Desk.com, was created from Salesforce.com’s most recent acquisition, Assistly. It streamlines customer service ... eBay CEO: NFC Payments Need Standardization to Succeed [VIDEO]Mashable’s Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. eBay CEO John Donahoe sat down with Mashable CEO and founder Pete Cashmore to talk about the future of ecommerce and mobile commerce at the World E... RIM Backtracks After Twitter Users Hijack HashtagLike McDonald’s before it, RIM has found there’s a reason open-ended Twitter campaigns are called “bashtags.” The trouble started on New Year’s Eve, when the brand sponsored Dick Clark’s show and ran a billboard in New York’s Times Square: “LetR... Martha Stewart Considering Web-Only TV ShowMartha Stewart is looking into producing web-only video programming, the TV personality and business magnate suggested on stage at AllThingsD‘s media conference Tuesday. Stewart’s company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, is looking for new outlets for Stewart’s daytime show now... Will the iPhone 5 Have NFC? MasterCard Exec Hints at an Answer [VIDEO]In a recent interview, MasterCard‘s chief emerging payments officer dropped a hint about the yet-to-be announced iPhone 5: the next smartphone from Apple might include near field communication technology. Fast Company‘s Austin Carr chatted with Ed McLaughlin from MasterCard ... Megaupload Data Safe for Another Two WeeksThe data on Megaupload will not be erased for at least two more weeks, Cnet reports citing Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken. The data on the file hosting service, whose founders have been accused of piracy and money laundering, was in danger to be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2, as the site̵... NBC to Dissect Super Bowl Ads in Post-Game Google+ HangoutWhen Google first rolled out Hangout video chats for Google+, part of the plan involved allowing hanger-outers to watch YouTube videos together. While many questioned the usefulness of the feature, we’re now seeing what Google had in mind all along: a Super Bowl post-game Hangout where user... |