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| Dan Porter / Zynga Blog: |
OMG, Zynga Welcomes a New Member to the Family — Put down your smartphones and iPads for just a sec. I've got some big news. Today I'm excited to tell you about a new addition to the Zynga family, OMGPOP. This New York-based developer of social mobile games has recently received a lot …
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
“OMGPop Sold Way Too Early — They Left $800 Million On The Table” — In the speakers room at Ignition West (our conference in San Francisco today), there has been a lot of chatter about Zynga buying OMGPop, the maker of the smash-hit app game “Draw Something.”
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Done Deal: Zynga Gets “Draw Something” Phenom By Acquiring OMGPOP. (We're Hearing $210M.) — Zynga agreed to buy OMGPOP, the maker of massive Pictionary-like hit Draw Something, winning out over several other large gaming companies who had taken a look at the deal.
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| Ryan Lawler / GigaOM: |
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
iPhoto for iPad, iPhone hits 1 million users in less than 10 days — iPhoto for iPad, iPhone hits 1 million users in less than 10 days — Apple told me today that its newest iOS app, iPhoto, hit 1 million users in less than 10 days after its release. It's important to note that figure is users, not downloads.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Google Said to Rethink Wallet Strategy Amid Slow Adoption — Google Inc. (GOOG) is weighing changes aimed at improving its Google Wallet mobile-payment system following slow adoption and the departure of two key managers, according to people with knowledge of the project.
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Business Insider, GigaOM, Ars Technica, Engadget, 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, MobilePaymentsToday.com News, PhoneArena and The Next Web. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Peter Farago / Flurry Blog: |
China Now Leads the World in New iOS and Android Device Activations — Flurry recently quantified China's meteoric adoption of iOS and Android applications. While China ranked 10th in application sessions at the beginning of 2011, it finished the year in 2nd place, only behind the United States.
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| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Exclusive: Hipstamatic, Instagram To Unveil Photo-Sharing Partnership — Last week, Instagram hit 27 million users, solidifying it not only as one of the most popular photo-sharing services on the market, but as one of the world's fastest-growing social networks.
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BGR, IntoMobile, Mashable!, MacRumors, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, MacStories, parislemon, The Next Web, Pulse2 Technology …, App Advice, Gotta Be Mobile, Digital Trends, Macgasm, SlashGear, Gadgetsteria, GadgeTell, Appolicious Advisor, The Verge, everythingiCafe, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, DVICE, Gizmodo, Instagramers.com and Engadget. Thanks:@austincarr
| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Meet The Hackers Who Sell Spies The Tools To Crack Your PC (And Get Paid Six-Figure Fees) — At a Google-run competition in Vancouver last month, the search giant's famously secure Chrome Web browser fell to hackers twice. Both of the new methods used a rigged website …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
MPAA Wants Megaupload User Data Retained for Lawsuits — Updated — Hollywood studios want a federal judge to preserve data on all the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that shuttered in January in the wake of federal indictments targeting its operators on allegations …
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Says Windows Phone Will Pass Apple in China — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world's largest software maker, said its Windows Phone operating system will propel it past Apple Inc. (AAPL) in China's smartphone market as its partners release devices costing as little as $158.
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| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Sprint CEO defends company's decision to bet it all on Apple's iPhone — Sprint chief executive Dan Hesse is being watched closely by the company's board of directors, but the CEO has to answer to investors and subscribers as well. Last year in October, Hesse revealed that the company … | Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
FreedomPop's New iPhone Case Promises Users Free Wireless Data — Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom's new FreedomPop project was initially shrouded in secrecy, but they've recently become a bit more talkative about how the company plans to offer “free wireless broadband” to their customers.
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GigaOM, Sprint 4G Rollout …, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, Appolicious Advisor, SlashGear, Gizmodo and Engadget. Thanks:@jordanrcrook
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
YouTube launches “one click fix” to improve the quality of your videos — When we're trying to capture something really funny, awesome, or downright amusing with our camera, the video quality is the last thing we're thinking about. Capture the moment is the goal, and if you do it right …
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| Sarah Mitroff / VentureBeat: |
Recipe search engine Yummly grabs $6M to find mouth-watering recipes — Yummly, a recipe search engine that would make any recipe hoarder and home chef happy, announced Wednesday it has raised $6 million is its first round of funding. The site compiles recipes from several popular recipes sites …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
DirecTV iPad app update adds video streaming on the go — In October, the “DirecTV” app added the ability to stream video over home networks. Today, an update to the app adds the ability to stream shows and movies over 3G and Wi-Fi anywhere. The new feature is limited to video content …
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| Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft details how iPad app development compares to Windows 8 — Summary: In an apparent attempt to attract iPad developers, Microsoft has posted a case study comparing iPad app development to Windows 8 Metro-style tablet development. — Microsoft officials have posted to the Windows Dev Center …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Comcast, Verizon Say They're Itching to Fight Google, Apple — Late last year, Comcast and Verizon unveiled a whopper of a deal: Verizon would buy a big chunk of wireless spectrum that Comcast wasn't using. And the cable company and the telco would agree to market each others' products …
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GigaOM, The Precursor Blog, Light Reading, The Verge, The Next Web, eWeek, PC Magazine, IntoMobile and Bloomberg
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
The Hong Kong Firm Behind Those Quirky Animated News Shorts Bets $5M On Red Robot Labs — The Yakuza, Chinese Triads and more. There's just so many more mafias for Benchmark-backed mobile gaming studio Red Robot Labs to infiltrate. — So the gaming company, which has made a huge bet on location …
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VentureBeat and Inside Mobile Apps
| Eileen Brown / Social Business Blog: |
Microsoft Lifebrowser captures the important landmarks in your life — Summary: Using Machine Learning, Lifebrowser from Microsoft Research learns to predict ‘memory landmarks’, events of life that you consider important and it uses these landmarks to help you navigate your past.| Jason Fagone / Wired: |
How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick — James Erwin, 37, works for a financial services firm in Des Moines, Iowa, writing software manuals. He's been doing that for a couple of years, and he enjoys it. It's a pretty low-stress job for a person with a methodical turn of mind—good pay, short commute.
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
US Senate votes 76-22 to limit debate on JOBS Act, move bill forward — The US Senate voted today to limit debate on the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act). The motion cleared the 60 vote hurdle, scoring some 76 votes. That ample victory gives the bill momentum as it moves towards formal adoption.
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| Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog: |
PayPal Here's first day: 1,000 sign-ups per hour — Summary: The competition between PayPal and Square is on as PayPal Here received 1,000 sign-ups per hour within the first day alone. — Last week, PayPal introduced its new mobile payments solution that will compete directly with Square.
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The PayPal Blog, FierceMobileContent and WebProNews
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Quiet Down Facebook Friends You Don't Care About With Acquaintance List Suggestions — Facebook doesn't want noisy friends you never interact with cluttering your news feed. To help solve this, today it begins suggesting friends you don't enagage with to add to your Acquaintance List.| Victoria Barret / Forbes: |
Silicon Valley's Hottest VC Is a Rug Dealer — It's a balmy February evening in Palo Alto, and Pejman Nozad is sipping tea on the deck of the Rosewood Hotel, the hot spot of venture capital's capital, Sand Hill Road. He's chosen a table situated just central enough so that he can see everyone who walks in.
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Ten things Oracle v. Google tells us about the judge presiding over Yahoo v. Facebook — UPDATE: 10 hours later, the case was reassigned to a different judge — [Update] Approximately ten hours after this post went live, Yahoo v. Facebook was reassigned to Judge Jeffrey White.
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