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Pizza Hut Introduces Foursquare Discounts for ‘Mayors’

Are you on Foursquare yet? Well, if you want to spy on your friends or lifeblog your daily destinations, you should be. And now, Pizza Hut has launched a new campaign that gives discounts to Foursquare ‘Mayors’. Unfortunately they’re not giving away a free pizza, but they are giving away a free order of breadsticks whenever you purchase a large pizza. Not bad for visiting a place you’d already patronize.

“Through past experience, we’ve learned that our customers are spending a considerable amount of time using social media and mobile tools, increasingly incorporating them into their daily lives,” said Brian Niccol, Chief Marketing Officer at Pizza Hut.  ”We see this promotion with foursquare as a win-win situation – loyal, digital-savvy customers will be able to take advantage of a fun promo, while we hope to see a bump in repeat traffic from Mayors looking to take advantage of this offer.”

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Virgin America Teams With Twitter For Charity

Today, Twitter and Virgin America are teaming up to raise funds for educational causes. The 24-hour “Fly Forward, Give Back” event encourages flyers to book a flight and tweet it. For the next 24 hours, Virgin America will donate five dollars per booking to education-focused charities and nonprofits.

So, if you’ve got a flight to book, do it today and get your donate on. Here’s a list of available flights:

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REPORT: Google to Build Facebook Competitor

Google Inc has held talks with gaming companies as it looks to develop a new service to compete with social networking website Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The Internet giant has had talks with makers of online games for the service including Playdom Inc, Electronic Arts Inc’s Playfish and Zynga Game Network Inc, the report said.

The report said is unclear when the new offering will be launched.

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Yahoo Japan to Switch to Google’s Search Engine

Yahoo Japan, Japan’s largest Internet portal operator, will adopt Google’s search engine, refusing to follow Yahoo Inc in choosing Microsoft as a partner.

Yahoo Japan, which currently uses Yahoo Inc’s search technology, and Google together would control almost all of the search market in the word’s second-biggest economy.

The deal stands in stark contrast to the decision by Yahoo Inc, which owns roughly one-third of Yahoo Japan, to integrate its search technology with Microsoft after the U.S. government blocked a potential tie-up with Google.

Yahoo Japan, which hopes the deal will strengthen its No. 1 position in the domestic market, will also adopt Google’s search-linked advertisement delivery system and feed its data to Google sites.

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REPORT: Google Search Share Slips as Baidu Gains

Google’s dominant position on the global online search market slipped slightly in the second quarter, as it retreated from the Chinese market, research firm Strategy Analytics (SA) said on Friday.

Google’s market share fell to 69.7 percent in the June quarter from 71.1 percent in the previous three months.

“Google’s search revenue growth continues to slow down as the Western search market reaches maturity and Google struggles to gain share in the fastest-growing Asian markets,” said Martin Olausson, analyst at Strategy Analytics.

“As a company, it will become increasingly more important for Google to find significant new revenue streams in order to offset decelerating growth in search,” Olausson said.

Google unexpectedly warned in January it might quit China over censorship concerns and after suffering a hacker attack it said came from within the country, but eventually terminated its Google.cn search service and started rerouting users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site.

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Pandora Announces Milestone: 60 Million Registered Listeners

Pandora announced today that they’ve reached an impressive 60 million registered listeners. The news comes from Joe Kennedy, Pandora’s CEO and President, as he took the stage at the New Music Seminar in front of some of the music industry’s most influential players.

If there’s one thing the Internet has taught us about music, it’s that the demands for delivery are always changing. The music industry’s share of the market quickly depleted when iTunes emerged on the scene and ever since, the face of consumable media, especially music, has been evolving alongside technology. And, as people are increasingly turning to satellite radio and streaming services like Pandora for their daily delivery of tunage, this milestone marks an important shift in the way consumers prefer to get their music.

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Match.com Names Miami Best Summer Destination for Singles

When summer travelers are looking to meet eligible bachelors and bachelorettes, Miami is the place where the heat is on, according to a survey from Match.com in partnership with Southwest Airlines. The 2010 Singles Summer Travel Survey found that South Beach in Miami received more than 43% of the votes for the beach destination with the most singles.

Not surprisingly, one of the most popular interests on Match.com’s user profiles is traveling, with more than 80% of Match.com’s single users listing travel as an interest. With summer travel in full swing, 40% of Match.com’s single users said if given two weeks off, they would vacation at the beach.

Other popular singles summer beach destinations from the survey included:

  • - Key West, FL 17.2 %
  • - Manhattan Beach, CA 12.1%
  • - South Padre Island, TX 10.1 %
  • - Waikiki Beach, HI 9.3%
  • - Hamptons, NY 7.5 %

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8 Creepy Places to Check Into on Foursquare

If you don’t know what Foursquare is then you must have been in a coma for the past few months, because it’s everywhere. Brands are even using Foursquare on some of their biggest campaigns. Over at Asylum, they’ve got a pretty humorous post about the creepiest places to check in on Foursquare. Here’s the first one below, but be sure to visit the post on Asylum for the rest.

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