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Peter Farago / Flurry Blog:
iOS & Android Shatter Records on Christmas Day — Historically, more iOS and Android apps are downloaded on Christmas than on any other day of the year. This is due to a massive influx of smartphones and tablets given as gifts. As fast as loved-ones can unwrap their shiny, new Galaxy IIs …
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Vlad Savov / The Verge:
3.7 million Android devices activated over Christmas weekend — Andy Rubin continues to use his Twitter account as the broadcasting platform for Android's latest statistical achievements. This time, he's letting us know that a magnificent 3.7 million new Android devices were activated over the holiday weekend.
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Paul Allen / Google+:
Google+ Growth Accelerating. Passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day. Prediction: 400 million users by end of 2012. — Google+ Growth Accelerating. Passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day. Prediction: 400 million users by end of 2012.
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Rafe Blandford / All About Windows Phone:
Windows Phone Marketplace passes 50,000 apps — The Windows Phone Marketplace has now passed the 50,000 app and games submission mark. Content is being added at the rate of 265 items per day. At the time of writing, 50,126 items have been published. Of these, 17,276 were added …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon, Apple Soar In Customer Satisfaction In 2011; Netflix Plummets — According to customer experience analytics company ForeSee, e-commerce giant Amazon once again topped consumer satisfaction in online retail after taking the top spot in 2010. However, Netflix, which had a dismal year, plummeted in customer satisfaction.
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Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Dropbox Adds Auto-Import From Your Camera — DropBox is getting into the Photo Stream game in a new experimental beta — Dropbox is trying out a neat new feature that will give it magical Photo Stream-like abilities. Everybody's favorite cloud-storage app has added photo and video import.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Latest Entrant In ‘How Not To Do Marketing’ In An Online World: Ocean Marketing Fail — One of the key points that we've been making for years is that, in an online world, pissing off (or simply not caring about) customers is no longer a viable business strategy.
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John Cook / GeekWire:
Amazon.com quietly acquires the social shopping whizzes at Quorus — A few weeks ago, we reported that Quorus co-founder Logan Bowers had left the upstart to become a senior software engineer at Amazon.com. Well, as it turns out, the former Zillow and Expedia developer will have some familiar faces hanging around the Amazon offices.
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Online Retailers Home In on a New Demographic: The Drunken Consumer — After enjoying a few drinks, some people go dancing. Others order food. And for some, it's time to shop online. — “I have my account linked to my phone, so it's really easy,” said Tiffany Whitten, of Dayton, Ohio …
The Diplomat:
China's Parallel Online Universe — To the casual eye, China's social media landscape might look diverse and lively. But the social media clones are careful to follow Communist Party censorship. — As the showdown escalated between Chinese security forces and residents of Wukan …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Planning Completely Redesigned iPhone for Fall 2012 Launch? — BGR reports that Apple is planning to launch a completely redesigned iPhone in the fall of next year, following the trend set by the iPhone 4S of new hardware being released later in the year as opposed to the mid-year timeframe used previously.
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
YouTube Slam pits viral videos against each other — Google is attempting to remedy the dispute between which viral videos are the most entertaining with a new experiment called YouTube Slam. — According to the YouTube official blog, YouTube Slam is a video discovery experiment it created in partnership with Google Research.
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Intel's 32nm Medfield SoC specs and benchmarks leak — Intel's Medfield may still be a ways from breaking into the smartphone and tablet market, but we're finally starting to get some concrete details on its specs and capabilities. VR-Zone got the bitty gritty on Chipzilla's first true SoC …
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Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
LCD makers in $539 million price-fixing accord — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co, Sharp Corp and five other makers of liquid crystal displays agreed to pay $539 million to settle claims they conspired to fix prices and stifle competition for LCD panels in televisions, notebook computers and monitors, according to a court filing.
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Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:
Phishing e-mail targets new Apple customers, steals billing information — Just got a new Macbook, iPad or other Apple gizmo for Christmas? A new e-mail scam is targeting you. — Cyber criminals are sending around a very official looking e-mail asking Apple users to update billing information …
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:
Airtight brings Airplay support to GoogleTV, minus mirroring, DRM, and music — A new application in the Android Market available for GoogleTVs running 3.0 and up will allow users to stream content from the iPad or iPhone using Airplay, Apple's wireless streaming feature built into iOS.
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John Cook / GeekWire:
Kindle case maker calls Amazon.com a corporate bully in federal lawsuit — M-Edge Accessories, a 50-person Maryland maker of sleeves and protective cases for electronic reading devices, is suing Amazon.com for patent infringement, unfair competition, intentional interference with contracts and false advertising.
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Electronista, Gear Diary and Wall Street Journal
Go Daddy:
Go Daddy is no longer on the U.S. Congressional list of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) supporters — Here is the link to SOPA supporters: http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/ Rogue%20Websites/List%20of%20SOPA%20Sup porters.pdf List of Supporters: H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act 60 Plus …
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Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Namecheap cashes in on SOPA with MoveYourDomainDay
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