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2 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Los Angeles - Having failed
to reach an agreement with Apple over access, Facebook blocked a link to
Apple’s (NASD:AAPL) new Ping music-focused social network that would let users
automatically add Facebook friends to their Ping contacts, sources told All Things D. As TechCrunch and
others reported, Facebook Connect was indeed connected with Ping for a brief
while before and even after the service was officially launched yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Date:
2 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Cupertino, Calif. - At a media event on Wednesday, Apple (NASD:AAPL) CEO
Steve Jobs unveiled new designs for all of its iPods, a new version of iTunes
with a music social network called Ping, the second generation of its Apple TV
streaming video device, and a new iTunes Store movie and TV show rentals
service. The new $99 Apple TV is one-fourth the size of the first model, and
now exclusively supports a new rental model for movies and TV shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Date:
2 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Cupertino, Calif. - At a media event on Wednesday, Apple (NASD:AAPL) CEO
Steve Jobs unveiled new designs for all of its iPods, a new version of iTunes
with a music social network called Ping, the second generation of its Apple TV
streaming video device, and a new iTunes Store movie and TV show rentals
service. The new $99 Apple TV is one-fourth the size of the first model, and
now exclusively supports a new rental model for movies and TV shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Date:
1 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Cupertino, Calif. - At a media event on Wednesday, Apple (NASD:AAPL) CEO
Steve Jobs unveiled new designs for all of its iPods, a new version of iTunes
with a music social network called Ping, the second generation of its Apple TV
streaming video device, and a new iTunes Store movie and TV show rentals
service. The new $99 Apple TV is one-fourth the size of the first model, and
now exclusively supports a new rental model for movies and TV shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Date:
31 Aug 2010 Comments:
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New York - The New York Times has added the ability for
readers to log in to its website using their Facebook accounts. The feature
will not replace current site registration, but will — if users opt-in to add
the new feature — show stories that a user’s Facebook friends have liked or
commented on at NYTimes.com. Meanwhile, The Times will be able to post status
messages, notes, photos and videos on the Facebook Walls of users who opt-in. Read the rest of this entry »
Date:
31 Aug 2010 Comments:
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Los Angeles - News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace on Monday introduced the
ability for its users to sync their status updates with their Facebook profile
or page. The company touted the new tool for artists who have created profiles
and offer streaming songs on MySpace Music, who will be able to share full
album catalogs with Facebook users who have "liked" their pages. Read the rest of this entry »
Date:
28 Aug 2010 Comments:
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Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has acquired social search
developer Angstro and hired respected entrepreneur Rohit Khare to work on its
Google Me social networking project, the Los Angeles Times reported. Read the rest of this entry »
Date:
25 Aug 2010 Comments:
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San Francisco - Facebook grew 179% in India over the past
year, and its membership there now tops Google’s (NASD: GOOG) Orkut social networking
service, CNET News.com reported, citing comScore data. Facebook counts 20.9
million users in India, to Orkut’s 19.9 million; Orkut saw 16% growth in the
past year. Read the rest of this entry »
Date:
24 Aug 2010 Comments:
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Los Angeles - Following the departure of president Adam Bain
for Twitter, News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) says it will fold the Fox Audience Network he led into
its MySpace unit. Read the rest of this entry »
Date:
21 Aug 2010 Comments:
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Baltimore, Md. - While Apple’s (NASD:AAPL) iOS platform still commands
the greatest share of mobile ad requests, according to a new report from mobile
ad network Millennial Media, Google (NASD:GOOG) Android-powered smartphones overtook RIM’s (NASD:RIMM)
BlackBerry for second place in July. The iPhone accounted for 55% of mobile ad
requests in July on Millennial’s network — which Nielsen says reaches some 80%
of U.S. mobile users — compared with 19% for Android and 16% for RIM. Read the rest of this entry »