The number of U.S. smartphone users is on the rise: smartphone penetration of all mobile subscribers, which was Read More
Android sales pass iPhone in last half year
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Two in five mobile users access location apps
When Ron Bowes of Skull Security created a publicly available 2.8GB torrent download last week including 100 million Read More
When Apple bought cloud music service Lala in December, iTunes in the Cloud was expected to follow quickly. Read More
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On The Day of 5 Billion Mobiles
Researchers had forecast it. Technologists looked forward to it. Few other people knew of it. But on July Read More
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Microsoft sold your privacy (thank goodness)
The WSJ just published the billy club for your weekly Microsoft beatdown. Turns out the company quashed internal Read More
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Summer reading (and year-round blogs)
It’s summer and I understand everywhere else in the United States, it’s hot. In San Francisco, we’ve endured Read More
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Playdom to exclusively use Facebook Credits
Playdom, the social gaming startup sold to Disney earlier this week, has signed a five-year contract for the Read More
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Funding roundup – week ending 07/30/10
The biggest funding news of the week, perhaps ironically, is over a month old. Zynga, still one of Read More
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Zynga finally announces Softbank investment
Confirming news over a month old, Zynga on Thursday announced that Japanese telecommunications and media corporation Softbank has Read More
In a recent post on the Yahoo! Search Blog, they announced that they’ve begun a test incorporating Microsoft’s Read More
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YouTube blocked by Russian court over video
YouTube just got the censorship treatment again. This time around, a Russian court in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur Read More
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IGN launches social network for gamers
IGN, a subsidiary of News Corp. and the Web’s biggest video game site, just launched My IGN, a Read More
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Disney purchases Playdom for $563.2 million
Disney, continuing its energetic and assertive push into social gaming, has agreed to pay $563.2 million up-front for Read More
Bill Hagen’s Out The Window Advertising partners with SmartFinds Internet Marketing to introduce businesses to the benefits and Read More
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GameStop acquires social gamers Kongregate
GameStop, the world’s largest brick-and-mortar video game retailer, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Kongregate, one of Read More