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One of the iPhone apps we're craving the most is still missing in action: An app from Hulu, the Web video company owned by NBC, Fox, and Disney. It's one of the things that readers ask us about the most, so we thought we'd revisit it.
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Kenji Hall / Business Week: Sony Unveils Its Answer to Apple's iTunes — The tech giant will launch an online store selling music, movies, books, and other downloadable applications for mobile products — Sony (SNE) is taking a page from Apple's playbook ...
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Facebook is a $9.5 billion company according to secondary trading markets.
Trading companies like SecondMarket and SharesPost handle transactions of stock issued to current and former Facebook employees.
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Every smartphone platform now has its own App Store, led by Apple's iPhone. And while some software firms are busily cranking out apps for all of them -- Apple, Google Android, BlackBerry, Palm WebOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian, etc. -- many are choosing to stick with only ...
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Will the Apple tablet launch in a few months? In a year? Maybe. But as far as Apple's business goes, it doesn't matter.
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Shares of Monster Worldwide Inc. (MWW) rose and options activity spiked Wednesday as takeover speculation circulated on message boards.
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Max Wang, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES:
Apple reportedly plans to postpone the launch of its tablet PC from an original March launch schedule to the second half of 2010, as the vendor has decided to switch some components and plans to launch a model using a 9.7-inch OLED panel from LG ...
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Piracy of Apple's closed iPhone ecosystem is hitting big numbers. According to Pinch Media CEO Greg Yardley more than 60% of paid iPhone applications installed with Pinch Media's analytics tools are available on jailbroken iPhones and other backchannels.
That sounds like a lot, but only only ...
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Apple's Kindle killer -- the supposed tablet device -- doesn't officially exist yet. But publishers are wasting no time getting ready for it.
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Apple's Mac and iPod sales are tracking along with expectations so far this quarter, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster says in a note today.
U.S. Mac retail sales were up 7% year-over-year in October, according to NPD Group, per Munster.
Street consensus is for 14% year-over-year growth ...
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Whether you're in New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, or Moscow, chances are you're going to encounter low-quality knock-offs.
Most knockoffs just slap a slightly-off logo on an inferior good, and that's that.
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Shazam Entertainment, makers of the popular iPhone app that tells you what song is playing in the car, store, bar, restaurant, etc., is getting sued for patent infringement by Digimarc, another software company. The suit covers three patents; two date back to 1995 -- long before the iPhone. ...
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It's been hard to get excited about much at Sprint Nextel over the last several years, as the carrier has lost buckets of money and subscribers. (Though a few recent, modest signs of improvement .)
But it's still leading its rivals in one important metric: ...
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Despite our initial skepticism , Apple did talk to mobile ad network AdMob about a potential deal, just before Google snapped up the company for $750 million .
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Evernote is the popular note-taking service that works across any platform: desktop, web, or mobile. On Monday morning, the always evolving service is announcing that they’ve raised $10 million in Series B funding, which follows their Series A round of $6 million. This round included ...
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Good news if you're hoping to buy one of TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's CrunchPad devices: It's not dead after all!
The CrunchPad is actually "great" and "steamrolling along" -- and Arrington promises "big news" shortly. Arrington says the CrunchPad will cost somewhere between $300 ...
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Some of this year's Black Friday deals -- sales for the day after Thanksgiving -- have started to leak. Here's a bunch of gadget deals we've tracked down so far, via sites like dealnews.com .
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In this week's slightly more transparent app roundup: Malls, navigated! Instant messages, never ignored! Browser, bettered! Messaging, replaced! Hotel rooms, snagged! Photos, translated! Ghosts, faked! Blu-ray movies, supplemented! And more...
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Dell will enter the wireless business before year end, starting with the sale of its new Mini 3 smartphone in China and Brazil..
Dell said it plans to start selling a phone known as the Mini 3 in China this month. The phone will be sold by China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest cellular ...
