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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Game Over: Twitter Mentioned In 50% Of Super Bowl Commercials, Facebook Only 8%, Google+ Shut Out — The Baltimore Ravens just beat the San Francisco 49ers to win Super Bowl XLVII in a game that came down to the final seconds. But online, the social network showdown belonged to Twitter … | Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Samsung's $15 million Super Bowl commercial arrives early — Samsung just released its two minute Super Bowl commercial set to air during the fourth quarter of Sunday's big game. The full ad continues with the same rapid-fire Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd repartee that we saw in the teaser a few days ago.
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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Oreo, Audi & Walgreens Newsjack Super Bowl “Blackout Bowl” — Thanks to super-fast reactions, at least three brands were able to “newsjack” the power outage that hit the Super Bowl early in the third quarter of today's game. With the Ravens up by a score of 28-6, and a 49ers third-down play …
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| Chris Matyszczyk / CNET: |
Amy Poehler tries to seduce Best Buy boys in Super Bowl — The “Parks and Recreation” star tries to make women feel so much more comfortable buying gadgets at Best Buy. Naturally, sex is her method. — “Windows or Android?” — It seemed like an innocent enough question.
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
BlackBerry chooses ‘swagger’ over substance for Super Bowl spot — BlackBerry has just unveiled its Super Bowl ad — arguably the company's first real mainstream debut for BlackBerry 10 following its launch event — but for some reason it's all about what its new Z10 handset “can't” do.
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| Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire: |
The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New Show — With Netflix's foray into original, high quality programming today, the streaming TV network wants to turn into the HBO of Internet TV, but can the network afford it? Putting together a big production with famous actors like House … | Josef Adalian / Vulture: |
How Will We Know If Netflix's House of Cards Was a Hit or a Failure? — All thirteen episodes of House of Cards' first season debut on Netflix Friday, but the folks who run the video service insist they don't give a damn if America rushes to watch the David Fincher-Kevin Spacey series this weekend.
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| Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: |
The Verge Hires Writer Who Quit CNET in Protest — Greg Sandoval, the CNET senior writer who resigned in protest when the site's parent company, CBS, interfered with its editorial coverage last month, has been hired by The Verge, the Web site that first revealed the full extent of CBS's involvement.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Debuts New AppStore.com Vanity URLs For Developers During Super Bowl — Look! Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl. Actually, it's a new product for App Store developers - short “AppStore.com” vanity URLs. The domain made a grand public appearance at the end …
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The Nordic region is becoming a hothouse of entrepreneurship — IN 2010 A GROUP of students at Aalto University, just outside Helsinki, embarked on the most constructive piece of student activism in the history of the genre. They had been converted to the power of entrepreneurialism during … | Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
Wine On Android Is Coming For Running Windows Apps — A port of the Wine software to Google's Android platform is being worked on. — Following the FOSDEM talk today in Brussels about Wine on ARM (notes on the Wine ARM talk will come in a later Phoronix article today or tomorrow), there was a brief showing of Wine on Android.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Consumer Data Protection Laws, an Ocean Apart — OVER the years, the United States and Europe have taken different approaches toward protecting people's personal information. Now the two sides are struggling to bridge that divide. — On this side of the Atlantic, Congress has enacted …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Super Bowl plans to handle 30,000 Wi-Fi users at once—and sniff out “rogue devices” — Where the Super Bowl—and a gigantic Wi-Fi network—awaits 73,000 fans. — Superdome.com — When 73,208 fans file into the New Orleans Superdome for the Super Bowl on Sunday, they'll have to follow the usual rules …
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Software Predicts Tomorrow's News by Analyzing Today's and Yesterday's — Prototype software can give early warnings of disease or violence outbreaks by spotting clues in news reports. — Why It Matters — A method of using online information to accurately predict the future could transform many industries.
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