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Twitter just aired its first ever TV commercial promoting its brand new hashtag pages [Videos] — Twitter aired its first ever TV commercial today during the 2012 Pocono 400 Nascar race. The ad features driver Brad Keselowski, who finished in a disappointing 24th place, using his phone to share his point of view with the world.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Hashtag Pages Could Be The New AOL Keywords — But Better — Earlier today, Twitter made its most aggressive grab for TV marketing dollars, with the release of a TV ad during the Pocono 400 and the launch of the corresponding Twitter.com/#NASCAR hashtag page.| Surur / WMPoweruser: |
Intel: Android dual core support so poor “having a second core is actually a detriment” — Dual-core processors are just for show on Android — Android OEMs famously shipped phones with dual core processors well before the operating system even supported it.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Andy Rubin denies rumor he's leaving Google, cites 900k Android activations per day — Earlier today, Robert Scoble posted a rumor on his Google+ feed that Android boss Andy Rubin was preparing to leave Google to join a stealth-mode startup called CloudCar, a company that even the ultra-connected Scoble says he knows nothing about.
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Facebook is eating the world, except for China and Russia: World map of social networks — (Click here for a larger version of the world map of social networks) — Twice a year (in June and in December), social media strategist Vincenzo Cosenza updates his ‘world map of social networks’ …
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Silicon Valley Bank targets UK technology sector — Silicon Valley Bank will back UK technology start-ups and established companies — Silicon Valley Bank, the US hi-tech bank with $20bn (£13bn) in assets, opened its first UK branch on Monday, offering banking and loan services to the UK tech industry.
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| Michael Oliveira / The Globe and Mail: |
How Facebook and Google manage users who hate every redesign — Jon Wiley, the lead designer behind Google's home page, is used to taking heat any time he fiddles with the search giant's iconic stark-white design - no matter how small the change may be. Early on in his tenure … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
LG Optimus 4X HD out in Europe today — If you live in Europe and your head hasn't been turned by a certain other quad-core phone from a Korean manufacturer, you may be interested to know that LG's Optimus 4X HD is now rolling out across the continent as expected.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Mobile Advertising: The $20B Opportunity Mirage — There are a lot of questions left to be answered about Facebook's IPO fiasco, but one thing we know is this: As consumers shift their use of Facebook from PCs to smartphones, investors worry about lower mobile advertising revenues.| Reuters: |
Analysis: Stakes high as “Wintel” puts all its chips on Windows 8 — (Reuters) - The world of Wintel - Microsoft, Intel and the Taiwan-based companies that build the computers their products power and run on - is taking a huge collective bet on Windows 8. — And while this week's Computex trade show …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Lenovo Starts Selling Own Brand of Mobile Broadband Service — Lenovo is announcing details on Monday of a new service that will allow buyers of its computers to get mobile broadband access through the PC maker. — The service, dubbed Lenovo Mobile Access, is being sold by Lenovo, but is powered by Austin-based Macheen.
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
France Télécom to buy the 51% of video site Dailymotion it doesn't already own for $90 million — According to French business publication Les Echos, France Télécom company Orange is mulling the acquisition of video sharing site Dailymotion in its entirety.
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