What Facebook Can Give Back To The Web

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In Depth: The evolution of the Linux desktop

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Mobclix: Android Impressions Grew By 420 Percent In 2010; iPhone Up 347 Percent

Recently acquired mobile ad exchange Mobclix is releasing its 2010 report, which takes a look at the top trend in the mobile advertising space. 2010 has been a big year for mobile advertising companies and startups, with the Google-AdMob deal approved, Apple’s Quattro buy and iAds launch, Millennial’s fast growth and more. Unsurprisingly, the trend that tops Mobclix’s report is the platform war between Apple and Google over the iPhone versus Android. Mobclix says that impressions on Android phones via Mobclix’s platform grew by 420 percent over the past year whereas iPhone impressions grew by 347 percent for the same 12 month period.

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Happy Christmas to all, from us at TechRadar

Should you be sneaking a quick look at your favourite site from your shiny new iPad/ iPhone/ HTC Desire HD/ Windows 7 PC/ MacBook (or not - bad luck by the way, better luck next year), we hope everyone has a very Happy Christmas and has an excellent, stress free and entertaining break over the next few days.

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Today Is The Last Day For Crunchie Nominations!

The Crunchie Awards, which are co-hosted by TechCrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat, are pretty much my favorite part about TechCrunch. That being said, today is everyone’s last day to nominate your favorite companies, products and people (yourself included) for one of the 20 different awards categories.

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Yandex Acquires WebVisor’s Behavior Analysis Technology, Team

Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, has acquired WebVisor, a Russian startup, after holding an open day for startups to pitch the search company. WebVisor provides visitor behavior analysis (mouse movement, clicks, text copying etc.) and will be integrated with the companys own visitor statistics tool, Yandex.Metrica. Terms were not disclosed.

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Skype still struggling with outage

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Hands On With Largest Android Phone Ever: A 42-Inch Nexus S

Around twenty miles south of San Francisco is a small city called San Carlos. Despite living in the Bay Area for two decades I know almost nothing about it (Wikipedia says it’s an affluent small residential suburb) but starting today, it’s special for at least one big reason: it’s home to the largest Nexus S in existence.

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Angry Birds Mighty Eagle character lands on iPad

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WikiLeaks iPhone App Made $5,840 Before Pulled By Apple, $1 From Each Sale Will Be Donated To WikiLeaks

Igor Barinov, the developer behind the WikiLeaks app that got removed from the App store, has revealed the total breakdown of his app’s reach before it got taken down by Apple. Total damage?4443 downloads and $5,840.14 in profit. The Moscow-based Barinov says that he’ll be donating $1.00 from each sale, a total of $4443 dollars, to WikiLeaks.

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