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Frictionless sharing on the Facebook Open Graph could start to resemble Twitter's promoted tweets

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Video game sales take a sharp dive in January 2012

by Nathan Pensky, February 10, 2012 | Comments

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Are January's seriously low gaming sales due to a lack of new titles or are consoles out for good?

Don't look now but the traditional gaming console might be in trouble. A new study shows that sales of video games are down sharply in January 2012, as games debuting last month failed to strike gamers' collective fancy. New research from NPD Research Inc. has found that retail sales of video-game hardware, software and accessories in the US tumbled 34 percent ...

Gogo partners with HotelTonight for inflight booking

by Nathan Pensky, February 10, 2012 | Comments

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Inflight Web provider Gogo teams with hotel booking app HotelTonight to help last minute travelers

Inflight Web company Gogo upped their game on Friday by announcing a partnership with hotel-booking mobile app HotelTonight, which enables the company to offer their users last minute hotel booking capabilities from their inflight platform. The service will be available to passengers flying to over 30 different US destinations, including New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. Free ...

TaskRabbit opens its API to app developers

by Krystal Peak, February 10, 2012 | Comments

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Companies organizing projects, hiring short-term labor flock to TaskRabbit API for infrastructure

Companies that want to get into the outsourcing business can now build their applications on the TaskRabbit API, which was released Friday. This will allow third-party developers to integrate TaskRabbit features, of sourcing out tasks to the public and paying virtually, directly into their own apps and Web sites. TaskRabbit has been gaining a lot of momentum lately, most recently ...

LinkedIn posts strong Q4, shares rocket 17%

by Nathan Pensky, February 10, 2012 | Comments

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Unlike Groupon, LinkedIn has only gotten stronger since going public

While Groupon has continued to struggle since its IPO, another company that recently went public, LinkedIn, has experienced consistent growth. Shares of LinkedIn rocketed 17%, or $13, to $89.59, a day after LinkedIn announced late Thursday its Q4 2011 earnings and revenue report that handily exceeded expectations. “LinkedIn grew over 100% for the sixth consecutive quarter,” said LinkedIn CFO Steve Sordello, in ...

Tesla's Model X brings eco to the soccer mom minivan

by Krystal Peak, February 10, 2012 | Comments

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The all electric three-row SUV is expected out in 2014 at a base price of $50,000

Tesla is making environmental purchases sexy. Just as the buzz about the reasonably priced Model S has been circulating the last few weeks, the Hawthorne-Calif.-based car company has finally unveiled the pictures and specs on the new SUV Model X vehicle Friday. Tesla says pricing of the Model X will be similar to that of the Model S, making the ...

Satellite partnerships can help with emergency tweets

by Krystal Peak, February 10, 2012 | Comments

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Twitter partners with Iridium, Thuraya to bring tweet-capability to even more people

Have you even been lacking an Internet connection and still wanted to get that tweet out? Well as of this week, Twitter has launched its satellite service that can be utilized in emergencies or in countries where Wi-Fi and broadband aren't as reliable. Twitter announced in its blog, that it has partnered with two of the world’s largest satellite communications ...

Americans watched 43.5B videos in 2011, up 44%

by Nathan Pensky, February 9, 2012 | Comments

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Study projecting future tech trends show "Interest Graph" to be the next step in social networking

Six years after YouTube made watching video online cool, online video is starting to really take off. And, eight years after Facebook was founded, about 17% of all time spent online is on social networks. How the world has changed. All these findings come from the latest report from comScore, focusing on the digital future. First, findings showed that social ...

Appcelerator acquires Cocoafish for cloud-based mobile

by Nathan Pensky, February 9, 2012 | Comments

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Appcelerator's acquisition of Cocoafish acknowledges the 'near-ubiquity' of cloud-based mobile apps

Enterprise-grade development solution Appcelerator announced Thursday its acquisition of Cocoafish, a mobile app infrastructure provider. Appcelerator plans to incorporate Cocoafish's mobile services into its Titanium plan as early as Q2 2012. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Appcelerator has already developed over 35,000 different mobile applications on its Titanium platform, and so is probably pretty clear as to where ...

America's living room: More Internet, less wired cable

by Krystal Peak, February 9, 2012 | Comments

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People are supplementing broadband Internet streaming with free broadcast TV rather than pay cable

As the video viewing options trend more toward broadband support and on-demand viewing, the use of wired cable and satellite is seeing serious slumps. The number of U.S. homes that have broadband Internet, but only free, broadcast TV, is rapidly growing in popularity, according to a Nielsen report out Thursday. Even though the percentage of the market that has ...

Teens more likely to have bad experience on SNS

by Nathan Pensky, February 9, 2012 | Comments

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New study shows most social networking is positive, but teens have a worse experience than adults

At its core, social networking is about allowing users to interact more freely. And according to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the vast majority of that interaction is positive and personally rewarding. However, the study also found some negative social effects, with a higher percentage of negativity centered around teens. According to Pew, the ...

Apple's iPad 3 expected to debut March 9

by Krystal Peak, February 9, 2012 | Comments

	The highly-anticipated next generation iPad could be announced in just one month The next Apple event has been set for one month from today and many are betting that the iPad 3 will be the the guest of honor. Apple consumers have been pleading to know when the next generation of the iPad would hit the market almost since the iPad 2 launched March 10 of last year -- and one year ...
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Nivio nabs $21 million for affordable cloud computing

by Krystal Peak, February 9, 2012 | Comments

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Videocon, AEC Partners invest in the newest player up against Dropbox, Box.net, Evernote

One cloud computing company, that wants to make accessing and visualizing data easier for anyone, has just announced a $21 million Series A funding round Thursday. Nivio gained this funding from Videocon (& Group Companies) and AEC Partners just days after announcing the company launch at MacWorld last month. Nivio allows users to store up to 10GB of their ...

Glam Media serves up social site: Foodie

by Krystal Peak, February 9, 2012 | Comments

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With consumers looking to the Internet for food ideas, Foodie builds a virtual kitchen to share

There might not be a more descriptive yet disparaged word in the culinary word than foodie -- it evokes a passion for the luxurious but also a distain for the common. After purchasing the domain Foodie.com nearly nine months ago for $100,000, Glam Media finally launched a social food site called Foodie. Glam Media is known for launching sites that ...

MeUndies launches comfortable undies for delivery

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 9, 2012 | Comments

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Online underwear retailer emerges out of LA-based incubator Science

Online shopping and home delivery of groceries have truly made me lazy. But once you know the brands you like, it's so much more efficient to have necessities, like toilet paper, sparkling water and cleaning supplies delivered on a consistent basis. In like vein, why not just have a regular shipment of underwear, undershirts and socks delivered every six months ...

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