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Box.net hooks up with Chatter, now pre-loaded on Motorola Xoom

Cloud storage provider Box.net announced today that it will now work with Salesforce.com’s enterprise social network, Chatter, and its mobile application will now come pre-loaded on the Motorola Xoom tablet.

Box.net is now shipping its content over to Salesforce.com’s enterprise …

Investing titan Marc Andreessen says there’s no bubble because “stuff just works”

Cheaper cloud computing costs and the cloud computing revolution has made the emergence of major Web 2.0 companies like Facebook and Twitter — and their titanic valuations — completely justified, storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen (pictured …

Superhero online game City of Heroes launches as free-to-play today

City of Heroes, an online role-playing game run by NCSoft, will now use a freemium model that makes money off the sale of premium goods in lieu of requiring all players to pay a subscription fee.

All City of Heroes …

Clean Power Finance connects investors, solar providers and gets $75M from Google

Search giant Google today announced it has made another large investment in a residential solar provider, this time dropping $75 million into Clean Power Finance, an online service that connects solar panel installers with investors.

Clean Power Finance connects solar …

Star Wars: The Old Republic release date is December 20 this year

Game publisher Electronic Arts today announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic, one of the company’s most anticipated online games, will come out in December this year.

The Old Republic is Electronic Arts’ Hail Mary pass in online games and …

Diablo 3 release date is in early 2012, more beta keys going out

Blizzard Entertainment’s next highly-anticipated online game, Diablo 3, won’t come out until early next year, the company’s chief executive Mike Morhaime said Friday.

Blizzard Entertainment is known for taking its time before releasing a game. So far, the strategy has …

Zillow, Pandora only fresh IPOs to outlast market slip

Continued uncertainty about financial stability in Europe and a government deadlock in the United States struck publicly-traded equities on Thursday, sending the tech-heavy NASDAQ index down 3.3 percent and below a technical level of support that might indicate future weakness.…

Intuit’s payments team says mobile card readers will die

Payments and financial software provider Intuit has its own mobile card swipe reader — though they’ll tell you any day of the week it isn’t like Square’s. That card reader plugs into a headphone jack on a mobile device like …

How Huddle ripped its name back from Google+ (exclusive)

Google recently rebranded a number of its features on its social networking site, Google+. One of those features was Huddles, the site’s group messaging feature, that is now known as Messaging.

But that change was always in the works because …

Greenstart will make you wish you had a cleantech startup (photo gallery)

Greenstart, a new clean technology startup incubator based in San Francisco, officially opened its doors today after San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee cut the ribbon for the office space.

Greenstart’s new office space has a slick, green feel to it …

Digg delivers automatically curated news content with Newsrooms

News aggregator site Digg today unveiled Newsrooms, a new section of the site that features automatically curated news content for specific topics like technology and politics.

Here’s how it works: Digg adds content from a number of sites it curates, …

Netflix’s DVD game rentals may have a short shelf life, thanks to cloud gaming

Netflix today spun off its mail-order DVD business into a new service called Qwikster, which will include mail-order video game rentals. Given Netflix’s immense success with the movie business, you might expect the games rental business to fare just as …