Erin Jansen is founder of Netlingo, an online dictionary of Internet and text messaging terms.

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Erin Jansen,founder of Netlingo, an online dictionary of Internet and text messaging terms, also says the new technology has not fundamentally changed existing language but added immensely to the vocabulary.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Adoption of such technologies by companies like Apple and Google could push Internet messaging into the mainstream.

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The fast-growing Internet messaging service is currently in discussions to raise a new round of private financing, said people familiar with the matter .

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Think of the convergence of music, apps, Internet, messaging and wearability while working out, for example.

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