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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Not the iPad 3 or New TV — But Apple Planning Media-Related Event in the Big(ger) Apple This Month — According to sources close to the situation, Apple is planning an important — but not large-scale — event to be held in New York at the end of this month that will focus on a media-related announcement.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
This Month's Apple Event To Focus On Publishing And iBooks — Apple will be holding a product event later this month in New York, Kara Swisher is reporting, and we've confirmed independently with a source. — According to the source the event will not involve any hardware at all and instead …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome — Google, the company that has been fighting against paid links and “thin” content, seems to be behind a campaign that's generating both on behalf of its Chrome browser. File this under “what were they thinking.” — “This Post Sponsored By Google”
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Google's Ad Company (Which Isn't Google) Explains What's Up With Those Chrome Ads — Google is paying bloggers to run posts promoting its Google Chrome browser. — Is that a big deal? Depends on who you ask. — Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan, who sussed this out yesterday, has two big problems with the notion.
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Electronista:
RIM cuts all PlayBooks to $300, gets ad hoc Android Market — BlackBerry PlayBook drops to 300 on company store — RIM has started running a new sale for the BlackBerry PlayBook on its own store. Every version of the tablet costs the same $300, making the 64GB version the best option until stock runs out.
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Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Google+ just had its biggest traffic month of all time, up 55% from November. — According to Experian Hitwise, Google+'s total monthly US visits have grown 55% since November. 49 million visits were recorded in December 2011 — the biggest month to date. — But regardless of the actual numbers …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
If Android is so hot, why has Java ME overtaken it? — Ranked by Internet market share — rather than unit sales — Google is now No. 3 — Data: NetApplications. Chart: PED — From the perspective of NetApplications, which has been measuring browser usage data since 2004 …
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Rick Martin / Tech in Asia:
‘Lucky Bags’ a Popular Apple Store Tradition in Japan — In Japan, ‘lucky bags’ are a New Year's Day shopping tradition that offers up a mystery bag of items usually at a discounted price. And perhaps one of the most sought-after lucky bags comes from the country's Apple Stores.
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Financial Post:
RIM leaning toward new chairman: sources — Under intense pressure from a group of shareholders, Research in Motion Ltd. is preparing to unveil a corporate shakeup at the beleaguered BlackBerry maker that could see co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie relinquish their titles as co-chairmen of the board, according to sources.
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Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
The Verified Twitter Account for Rupert Murdoch's Wife Was Fake — Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter last week. So did his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch. “Joining my husband @rupertmurdoch in our new digital adventure on Twitter,” reads her bio. Cute, right? Rupert was verified, Wendi was verified …
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
SoundCloud raises $50 million round led by Kleiner Perkins — SoundCloud has raised a new fundraising round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The amount was not released but TechCrunch understands it to be $50 million. This would give the company a $200 million pre-money valuation.
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Tony Smith / The Register:
The Commodore 64 is 30 — Commodore took the wraps off the Commodore 64, one of two immediate follow-ups to its popular Vic-20 home computer, 30 years ago this week. — The 64 made its public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), though it wouldn't go into production until later …
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Telegraph:
Facebook IPO: the £64bn question of 2012 — If it ever happens, Facebook will be the frenzied float of 2012, with a possible valuation of $100bn (£64.4bn). — An IPO will make founder Mark Zuckerberg one of the world's richest men and many of Facebook's 3,000 employees exceedingly wealthy.
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