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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Accord — Microsoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the terms.
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Doug Bewsher / The Big Blog:
Advertising in Skype — Today we announce something new - the launch of advertising in Skype, which will appear in the Home tab in Skype starting this week. — The Skype experience is our first priority, which is why we we've taken a lot of time working through and testing what kind …
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Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Skype Launches In-App Advertising, Limited To Windows For Now
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Real “Authenticity Killer” (and an aside about how bad the Yahoo brand has gotten) — Steve Cheney has never written something that so pissed me off than the blog he wrote today stating that Techcrunch's switch to Facebook comments has killed authenticity. — Here's the rub. He used his real name.
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Adario Strange / Zenroll:
Steve Gillmor, Japan, and the Trojan Horse called Facebook Comments — There are increasingly few areas in which my professional background in print publishing comes into play when discussing digital distribution, but one area offers me the opportunity for a direct, and quite important comparison: the new Facebook commenting system.
Thanks:adariostrange
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
YouTube Buys Next New Networks, a Video Producer — SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, the video site owned by Google, formally announced on Monday that it had acquired Next New Networks, a Web video production company, in its biggest effort yet to move beyond short, quirky home videos to professionally produced content.
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Jenna Johnson / Campus Overload:
Charlie Sheen wants an intern with #TigerBlood — Well, here's a summer gig that promises to be memorable: Charlie Sheen tweeted this afternoon that he's looking to hire “a #winning INTERN with #TigerBlood.” — The social media internship will focus on “executing a social media strategy” …
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Windows Phone 7 not reversing Microsoft's mobile slide — From November to January — the first full three months that Windows Phone 7 was available — Microsoft's share of the U.S. smart-phone market continued to slide, new data from comScore shows. — Microsoft's slice of the market fell …
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Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Latest comScore numbers have Android at #1 in US
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Lucas Atkins / N4BB:
Exclusive: BlackBerry 2011 Software Roadmap - OS 7, BIS 4.1, and more! — In the beginning of the year we learned the 2011 BlackBerry lineup through various leaks and roadmaps surfacing. It looks like an exciting year to see RIM release the Dakota/Montana, Malibu, Apollo/Sedona, Monaco …
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Google buys UK comparison website BeatThatQuote.com for £37.7 million — Google has bought UK price comparison website BeatThatQuote.com, acquiring the web property for £37.7 million earlier today. — John Paleomylites, Managing Director of the newly acquired company, took to the website to announce the deal, posting:
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Aaron Wall / SEO Book.com:
Google Buys BeatThatQuote, a UK Comparison Site Violating Google's Guidelines
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Feature: Ars reviews the Motorola Xoom — Motorola's Xoom tablet is the first device to ship with Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb, a highly anticipated new version of Google's mobile operating system. Honeycomb introduces a sophisticated new user interface that was designed for the tablet form factor …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Security experts decipher malware that attacked Android phones — Lookout Mobile Security has deciphered the DroidDream malware that managed to infect numerous apps on the Android Market. Google has taken action to deal with DroidDream, but the risk of infection is still there given the wide diversity of the Android ecosystem.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Researcher finds serious Android Market bug
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Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Pay-as-you-go shocker! CDMA iPhone 4 makes its way to Cricket Wireless (via jailbreak) — As any astute follower of the “pay-as-you-go” world knows, there are quite a few back alley Cricket dealers (and quite a few main street ones as well) that will happily flash any phone you give …
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Nemesis / The Local:
Text messages to replace stamps in Sweden — Double click on a word to get a translation — The Swedish postal service plans to give customers' tongues a rest by allowing them to pay their postage via mobile phone text message instead of stamps. — A similar system is set for launch …
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Google's Navigation App Now Able to Steer Android Users Away From Traffic — Google said on Monday that it is adding a feature to its Android-based navigation app that will allow the turn-by-turn program to automatically reroute users around traffic jams. — “You don't have to do anything …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Dear Apple, Please Copy This Notification System For The iPhone Immediately — As you're aware, I tend to take Apple's side on almost all matters iPhone versus Android. Having tried over a dozen Android devices ranging from the G1 to the Nexus S, I simply still prefer iOS. And it's not really close.
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Patricia Reaney / Reuters:
Not getting enough sleep? Turn off the technology — (Reuters) - Dependence on televisions, cellphones and laptops may be costing Americans dearly — in lack of sleep. — The national penchant for watching television every evening before going to sleep, playing video games late …
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Justin.tv Launches Socialcam Mobile Video-Sharing App — Justin.tv, the live video service, today launched an application called Socialcam to help users share video taken on their iPhone and Android devices. — The service uses Justin.tv's mobile live-streaming infrastructure …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
YouTube Grabs Another Hollywood Guy: Paramount's Alex Carloss — YouTube is still trying to figure out how to link up with Hollywood. Maybe Alex Carloss will help. — Until last week, Carloss was head of digital distribution at Viacom's Paramount. Now he's a Google employee, working on YouTube's content acquisition team.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
TV's Next Wave: Tuning In to You — The television is channeling you. — Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people's TV-viewing behavior with other personal data—in some cases, prescription-drug records obtained from insurers—and using …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Mobile Messaging Startup Kik Raises $8M; Launches Group Chat And Photo Sharing — Mobile messaging startup Kik Interactive has raised $8 million in Series A funding from RRE Ventures, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures. Kik also announced that Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson …
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Matt Hamblen / InfoWorld:
AT&T's iPhone 4 beats Verizon's on data downloads, Metrico says — iPhones downloaded data twice as fast on AT&T's network as on Verizon Wireless, but Web pages loaded nearly the same in thousands of samples — The iPhone 4 on AT&T's network downloaded data twice as fast, on average …
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
App Stores Everywhere! Opera Opens Mobile App Storefront — When Pocketgear changed course recently and announced it was going to be a white label app store provider for other companies called Appia, I said we should be prepared for an app store onslaught.
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