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Clearspring, a leading provider of widget creation, distribution, tracking and monetization services that extends its services to the leading media companies, advertisers and widget developers has acquired AddThis. AddThis is the leading bookmarking and sharing button on the web making it easier for users to bookmark share content across the web easily. With a monthly display of its button reaching 20 billion and partnerships with leading websites, including Oracle, Freewebs, etc, AddThis is the right thing to acquire for Clearspring.

The reason for this acquisition is obvious; generating more traffic and have its hands at more tools to offer publishers.

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START MOBILE is a mobile art company that provides a unique opportunity for artists through out the world to distribute and monetize their art work. Founded by Start Soma’s founder John Doffing, the site contains thousands of mobile art works from different artists around the world. Today START MOBILE has announced the launch of START MOBILE Art Widget which will be powered by Dijit technology of  XLR8 Mobile.

The latest widget presents Art Wallpapers to mobile phones around the globe and also they can be inducted into any website. With the new widget you can get paid by utilizing the affiliate program of START MOBILE Widget. A lot of original art from several artists will be featured by the new widget and you can buy any wallpaper for 99 cents which is just amazing. You can find further detail about the widget in the press release below:

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Facebook which is one of the most popular social networks, is now taking the communication with its users specifically developers, to the next level by welcoming their feedback for their blog. Currently the social network’s blog provides vital announcements and is the official voice of the network’s platform. Also Facebook has a Platform Status Feed where quick major announcements are made such as major changes on a feature or health of the Platform, etc.

In the near future, the social network will be further expanding the communication with developers by letting their engineers and other Platform members to blog about the social network on their personal blog unofficially. Everyone has his/her own level of perception and everyone can describe an application or feature in a unique way.

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After a bit of hiccups with eBay planning to sell the startup it had acquired earlier last year, StumbleUpon has decided to undergo a makeover at last. The change includes the removal of users needing to have a toolbar installed in order to use the service and replacing it with a much neater small frame that appears on top of the website you visit. This enables everyone to stumble anytime without needing to have a software or a toolbar.

The latest development however requires to initiate their stumbling experience from the StumbleUpon home page. Once you initiate this, the frame follows you across each site you visit, giving you new stumbles and keeping track of your ratings etc. The idea does shed off quite a lot and most probably make the stumbling experience more lightweight.

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Ballmer seems to be getting pretty serious with the idea of bringing Microsoft into Cloud computing. A concept that puts programs functioning within a browser and the working performed at distant data-centers and more or less takes the load of your system. Coined with the name; Windows Cloud, the operating system isn’t a distant dream and is set to launch within a month.

Although Microsoft hasn’t thrown out details about the product, but it’s definitely a different project from the Windows 7; which is desktop operating system.

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SocialText 3.0 is out with its enterprise mash of popular web services like, Facebook, wiki, FriendFeed and microblogging. Added together in one platform, SocialText 3.0 has got what it takes to standout as a formidable force in the Web world. With the core services of the above mentioned services, it also adds in it SocialText People and Dashboard, along with a planned SocialText Signals,a.k.a Twitter for Enterprise.

This makes SocialText 3.0 yet another social network with a touch of real work, enabling people to describe themselves as well as learn about other people and know about their activities. Users can edit the information/streams as they are uploaded with the help of its Dashboard, more like a wiki. This lets people share anything as well as let the combined efforts of each make the uploaded streams more detailed and informative.

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It appears that almost every media company has decided to bite everything that has anything to do with media sharing etc. Services like MuxTape have already taken the brunt and presently RealDVD, within moments after its launch has fallen prey to Hollywood’s concerns regarding the effect it can have on the industry.

RealNetworks has reportedly filed a suit against various parties, including DVD Copy and Control Association, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures and Disney. RealNetworks claims that RealDVD does nothing to do with affecting the industry and it fully complies with the license agreement of the DVD Copy and Control Association.

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Apple must be feeling good with Adobe System’s Sr. Director of Engineering, Paul Betlem’s announcement of the Flash Player for iPhone. The announcement was made at the Flash on the Beach conference in Brighton.

The idea had been cooking for quite sometime, but the latest say by the director has confirmed the idea and the company only waiting for Apple to approve the software. Meaning that its there in the line to be released.

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Zvents, an event based search engine has raised an amount of $24 million in a round of funding. The round was participated by investors including Nokia Growth Partners, AT&T and NAVTEQ along with previous investors including VantagePoint Venture Partners and Red Rock Ventures.

The San Mateo, California based local search and advertising network has several online and mobile partners which features listing of events in order to promote local business. The company is focusing on mobiles and expects a large part of its future businesses on it.

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