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Tue, 26 Jul 2011
Room to Rent, via the Web
Airbnb, which says it is handling 10,000 guests a night, is at the center of a boom in new companies that are creating a market for places to stay — a spare room, a house when the owners are on vacation or even a backyard treehouse. Some of these businesses are riding the surge of interest in all kinds of Web ventures; Airbnb plans to announce on Monday that it has raised $112 million from investors.
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011
Dissatisfied Facebook users may find future friend in Google+
Many Facebook users are not satisfied with the social network, which could spell trouble for the 750-million strong company now that popular rival Google+ is on the scene. According to the 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), Facebook has an index of 66 -- a rating that not only puts the company at the bottom of the rung in the report's social networking category but also makes it the lowest-scoring site of all measured companies.
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Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle
Companies have long used criminal background checks, credit reports and even searches on Google and LinkedIn to probe the previous lives of prospective employees. Now, some companies are requiring job candidates to also pass a social media background check. A year-old start-up, Social Intelligence, scrapes the Internet for everything prospective employees may have said or done online in the past seven years.
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