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Google has just acquired eBook Technologies , according to a notice that is currently appearing on the company’s homepage. Google confirmed the acquisition, with a spokesperson giving us this statement: “We are happy to welcome eBook Technologies’ team to Google
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Google Acquires eBook Technologies
Voicemail is dead . Visual Voicemail, however, is a different story. Those who have it love it — and those that don’t have it, want it.
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YouMail’s Visual Voicemail App Surpasses 2 Million Downloads, Mostly BlackBerry Users
As part of their effort to speed up release cycles , Google no longer likes to acknowledge in a big way when they update Chrome. They’re simply doing it too often for it to mean much. But today they’ve taken a bit of time to acknowledge an update to both Chrome and Chrome OS, in part because they were able to quash a big bug
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Chrome, Chrome OS Updated With First “Elite” Bug Squashed
In the world of online video, there is a battle brewing over the next dominant standard for online video, especially on HTML5 Web pages. Today, Google took the gloves off and declared that it will soon stop supporting the H.264 video codec in its Chrome browser
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The Gloves Are Off: Google Chrome Browser Will Drop Support For H.264 Video Codec
What should be the role of the Internet in US foreign policy? Should we be encouraging Twitter and Facebook to overthrow the governments in Iran, China and Russia
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Keen On… Evgeny Morozov: Why America Didn’t Win the Cold War and Other Net Delusions (TCTV)
Ericsson , which provides tech and services to telecom operators around the globe, estimates that the number of mobile broadband subscriptions has grown to a whopping 500 million during the course of 2010, and that this number will double before the end of this year. Ericsson forecasts that the majority of subscriptions, roughly 400 million in total, is expected to be concentrated in the Asia Pacific region, followed by North America and Western Europe with more than 200 million subscriptions each
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Report: Number Of Mobile Broadband Subscriptions To Surpass 1 Billion In 2011
Playboy Enterprises , the world-famous adult entertainment and media company, is to “go private” again. The media company, which of course publishes the Playboy magazine but also runs an Internet business segment called Playboy Online , alongside TV and radio networks, will be taken private for $6.15 per share by Icon Acquisition Holdings
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Hugh Hefner Takes Playboy Enterprises Private (At $6.15 Per Share)
Hearst Interactive Media , early investors in companies like Pandora, Netscape and Local.com, has taken the lead in a $3 million round of funding for VillageVines , a startup that offers member discounts at upscale restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other major cities in the United States. The media company’s interactive arm led the round, which follows a $750,000 round seed funding round, with GrandBanks Capital and High Peaks Venture Partners participating
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Restaurant Reservation Startup VillageVines Raises $3 Million
Last year, Google bought an old paper mill in Finland. Now the company is in process of converting that paper mill into a major data center. (more…)
