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Nielsen Wire:
U.S. Smartphone Battle Heats Up: Which is the “Most Desired” Operating System? — According to October 2010 data from The Nielsen Company, 29.7 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones that run full operating systems. — The most popular smartphones are the Apple iPhone and RIM Blackberry …
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ReadWriteWeb, 9 to 5 Mac, Smartphones …, CNET News, TechCrunch, Internet2Go, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, Network World, BGR, Electronista, dailywireless.org, GigaOM, SAI, Geekword and OStatic blogs
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Nielsen: iPhone and Android are tied for ‘most-desired’ smartphones
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iPhone Buzz
Wall Street Journal:
Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture — Google Inc. is in the final stages of launching its long-awaited e-book retailing venture, Google Editions, a move that could shake up the way digital books are sold. — The long-delayed venture—Google executives had said they hoped to launch this summer …
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Fast Company, The Toybox Blog, Macworld, Computerworld, AppleInsider, Faster Forward, DailyTech, CNET News, FierceMobileContent, TechSpot, paidContent, PhoneArena, TiPb, GottaBeMobile, Mashable!, dailywireless.org, Techland, Erictric, Geekosystem, Electronista, Softpedia News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechFlash, Kindle Review, Fudzilla, the Econsultancy blog, Open IT Strategies, SlashGear, I4U News, PC Pro, THINQ.co.uk, TeleRead, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Google Operating System, Engadget, MobileBurn.com, Go Rumors and PE Hub Blog, more at Mediagazer »
Andrew / Groublogpon:
Coming Soon: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed — This summer, we launched personalization to bring you deals that better suit your interests. We weren't about to stop there - today, we're giving you a sneak peak of some new stuff that will bring you even more deals you love: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed.
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The Atlantic Online, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable! and The Next Web
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Melanie Lee / Reuters:
Groupon buys 3 discount sites, expands into Asia — (Reuters) - Online group discount website Groupon said on Wednesday that it has acquired three deal websites in Asia, expanding the company's reach across East and Southeast Asia. — Groupon Inc, which is rumored to be close to being bought …
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ReadWriteWeb, Fast Company, TechEye, Financial Post, Digital East Asia, PC Magazine, The Next Web and ZDNet
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Groupon Acquires Local Marketing Services Startup Ludic Labs, Expands Some More
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CNET News, Business Wire, Tech Trader Daily, DealBook and Deal Journal
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Groupon Grows Beyond One Deal Per Day
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Telegraph, SAI and InformationWeek
DealBook:
Google Gambit for Groupon Raises Concerns — Google's $6 billion bid for Groupon, an online coupon start-up, is an aggressive move by the company to dominate local online advertising and help with its long-sought move into social networking. — Google has offered Groupon $5.3 billion …
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Continuations and Local Media Watch
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Wall Street Journal:
Google in Talks to Buy Groupon — Google Inc. is in talks to buy local deals site Groupon Inc., said people familiar with the matter, a move that would mark Google's biggest acquisition yet and a major push into local advertising. — The two sides weren't prepared to announce a deal as of Tuesday …
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Screenwerk, SAI, Deal Journal, Erictric, Googling Google Blog, TechCrunch, Deep Jive Interests and Mashable!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bidding War For Twitter Raises Valuation To Nearly $4 Billion. Kleiner Perkins Currently In Pole Position — Two weeks ago we reported that Twitter was mulling over raising a big new round of financing and the expected valuation was in the $3 billion range. Things have developed since then, it seems.
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Fast Company, VentureBeat, SAI and Howard Lindzon
Vijay Sankaran / Nokia Siemens Networks Blog:
New iPhone OS supports our network technology to boost smartphone performance — With its latest iPhone iOs 4.2 software, it looks like Apple is joining efforts to cut smartphone signalling down to size. Tests by Nokia Siemens Networks have shown that iPhone iOs 4.2 supports …
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Motorola Olympus Found at Flea Market Poses For Hi-Res Photoshoot — Of course, we're never too sure that what our tipsters have told us is the truth, but this one claims he bought Motorola's unannounced new flagship at a market. The very same Android that's leaked all over the place recently.
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Android and Me, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, Techie Buzz, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, BGR, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Engadget and Phones Review
George Ou / Digital Society:
Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth — Level 3 communications raised a lot of eyebrows earlier this month when it outbid rival Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Akamai to deliver Netflix content to large parts of the United States.
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Continuations, Level 3 Communications, CNET News, ZDNet, Free Press and GigaOM
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J T. Ramsay / Comcast Voices:
How Internet Peering Works
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Network World, paidContent, CableTechTalk, Between the Lines Blog and Wall Street Journal, more at Mediagazer »
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Feature: How Comcast became a toll-collecting, nuke-wielding hydra
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The Huffington Post, Skype Journal, dailywireless.org and GigaOM
Royal Pingdom:
Mobile OS usage splits the world (chart) — Where do you think Apple's iPhone is the most popular? Where does Nokia's Symbian phones dominate? How is it going for Android in different parts of the world? What about Blackberry? — We're going to answer all of those questions and more in this article …
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The Register, IntoMobile, Technologizer and Internet2Go
Christy Pettey / Gartner:
Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2011 and Beyond — Predictions Show Clear Linkage of IT Investments and Business Results Becoming an Imperative for IT Organizations — Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2011 and beyond.
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Between the Lines Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Pluggd.in and Computerworld
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Kindle Feels iPad's Heat, Sees E-Reader Lead Going Up in Smoke — When Apple CEO Steve Jobs first announced the company's new iBookstore and iBooks application for the iPad back in January, he said that while Amazon had done a great job with its Kindle e-book reader, Apple planned to “stand on their shoulders and go a little further.”
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Ars Technica, InvestorPlace, CNET News, MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, ThinkMobile, SAI, BetaNews, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews, Computerworld, Fortune, displayblog, iLounge and TUAW
Rob Walker / Fast Company:
Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing — Happy Mutants: From left, Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, “band manager” John Battelle, Cory Doctorow, and Xeni Jardin | It's eccentric. It's unprofessional. And it makes money. How four people who do exactly what they want run …
Julia Angwin / Digits:
A New Type of Tracking: Akamai's ‘Pixel-Free’ Technology — Akamai Technologies Inc., the large Web infrastructure provider, is promoting a new tracking technique it calls “pixel-free” technology. — Pixels are bits of software that tracking companies install on Web pages to monitor user behavior.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Nearly Every Single Topic On Quora Now Has A Twitter Account — Early last month, we noted that Quora was doing something rather interesting. They were using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to mass-create Twitter accounts. That may sound shady, but it really isn't. They're doing it as an alternative to RSS feeds.
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Skeptic Geek
Wall Street Journal:
Race Is On to ‘Fingerprint’ Phones, PCs — IRVINE, Calif.—David Norris wants to collect the digital equivalent of fingerprints from every computer, cellphone and TV set-top box in the world. — He's off to a good start. So far, Mr. Norris's start-up company, BlueCava Inc., has identified 200 million devices.
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TechEye
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
FCC chair announces net neutrality push without re-asserting role over broadband Internet — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission plans to announce Wednesday a controversial proposal that would prohibit Internet providers from favoring or discriminating against any traffic that goes over their networks.
Terry Walsh / We Got Served:
HP Pulls Out of the Windows Home Server Market, Leaves Vail Out in the Cold — HP today announced an immediate withdrawal from the Windows Home Server market. — In a briefing earlier this month, the company explained that the recent acquisition of Palm had led to a shift in business priorities across …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, Inquirer, The Windows Blog, The Register, DailyTech, SlashGear, MediaSmartServer.net, Softpedia News, WinRumors, Engadget and PC Pro
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Future Is Here: DoubleTwist Brings Wireless Sync To Android For Music, Photos & Video — Earlier today, Winamp released a new version of its Android application that allowed users to sync their music wirelessly with their Windows desktop (disclosure: Winamp and TechCrunch are both owned by AOL).
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
IBM Claims Breakthrough in Laser-Based Chips — A race to transform computers with laser-based communications is accelerating, with International Business Machines Corp. the latest to claim breakthroughs in chips that send data at blazing speeds using pulses of light.
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PC World and Softpedia News
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Microsoft reaches out to Windows Phone 7 jailbreak developers, unlocking tool pulled — It seems like its all happening over at ChevronWP7, the Windows 7 unlocking tool. Just minutes after we reported that the first homebrew application for Windows Phone 7 had been developed and published …
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ChevronWP7, Chris Walsh, TechEye, LiveSide.net, Erictric, Neowin.net, Shoutpedia, WinRumors, Download Squad, MobileTechWorld, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser.com and WPCentral.com
