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Benedict Evans:

Report: In China, smartphones over $500 are 27% of total active base, 80% of those are iPhones — 700m smartphones & tablets in China — Umeng's 2013 report has just come out, and it's full of fascinating data. (Umeng is an app analytics firm, much like Flurry, and has its code in a very large share of apps in use in China.)

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Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

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Google Calls It Quits On Brand Banner Ad Test In Search Results — Google has ended last fall's test involving large brand banner ads on Google.com. Amit Singhal, Google's head of search, confirmed the experiment was over in his keynote at SMX West in San Jose, California yesterday.

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

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