Take a Virtual Walk Through Hong Kong With Google Street View

If you’ve never been to Hong Kong, and you’ve heard legends about the busy streets of the city, you can now see how it looks for yourself without leaving your comfy chair, as Google has launched its Street View service for Hong Kong .

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Take a Virtual Walk Through Hong Kong With Google Street View

Opera Mini 5 Beta Comes to Android

Opera Mini 5 Beta was first introduced about 5 months ago, but owners of Android-based smartphones had to wait until now to get their hands on Opera’s nifty mobile browser. This version is nearly identical to the Opera Mini 5 Beta for other handsets; biggest improvements are speed dial, tabbed browsing, password management and better optimization for touchscreen phones

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Revamped Foursquare for iPhone Hits the App Store

Last week, an App Store error got the latest version of Foursquare for the iPhone into a few users hands a little bit early.

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Revamped Foursquare for iPhone Hits the App Store

Share Your Latest Purchases With Scordit

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here .

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The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]

A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse.

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The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]

15 Famous Tech Titans Hit Forbes’ Billionaire List

Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires and when it comes to technology, the list includes many of the same faces we see year after year . After regaining the throne last year, Bill Gates has once again been displaced as the world’s richest man — this time by Carlos Slim (who held that post back in 2007), but he remains the richest man in tech by a wide margin with an estimated net worth of $53 billion. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg , who fell off the list last year, has rejoined, tied with 20 others at #212 with an estimated net worth of $4 billion .

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Twitter’s Website Now Attaches Location to Tweets [PICS]

Twitter has just flipped the switch on geolocation within Twitter.com. Now at least some users can pull up location-based information from individual tweets on the microblogging website. While attaching locations to tweets has been possible for several months now through third party apps , Twitter.com itself hasn’t done much geolocation until today

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