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Vonage app lets Facebook friends talk free
Vonage Mobile for Facebook is a new app for Android and iOS devices (iPhone and iPod Touch, with iPad support Read More
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Zulily raises $6 million for private shopping
Zulily, a private online store targeting moms shopping for apparel and gear for babies and kids, has closed a $6 Read More
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says in an interview with Bloomberg published this morning that the company’s advertisers have boosted spending Read More
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Android sales pass iPhone in last half year
The number of U.S. smartphone users is on the rise: smartphone penetration of all mobile subscribers, which was 16% in Read More
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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 Facebook profiles, Read More
When Apple bought cloud music service Lala in December, iTunes in the Cloud was expected to follow quickly. Last night, 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 8, 2010, Read More
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Expecting to go all the way
Let’s face it: it’s typically not recommended! Though it may happen once in awhile, for most people it just doesn’t 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 efforts to 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 day after 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 exclusive use 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 the hottest social 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 completed a Read More
In a recent post on the Yahoo! Search Blog, they announced that they’ve begun a test incorporating Microsoft’s Bing search Read More
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