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Obama Campaign Nominates Square To Gather Mobile Contributions

Jan 30, 2012 3:47 PM ET

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It’s an election year, which means politicians are frantically trying to raise money for their campaigns. President Obama’s re-election campaign has decided to add Square’s mobile payments technology to its arsenal and is deploying the company’s credit-card readers to its staff.

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Analyst Estimates Amazon Has Sold 6 Million Kindle Fires

Jan 30, 2012 2:43 PM ET

Amazon Kindle Fire

Given Amazon’s reluctance to disclose hard numbers regarding the number of Kindles it has sold and the interest in the Kindle Fire as a tablet competitor, we’re left with estimates that hopefully used some sort of scientific method. One Wall Street analyst thinks he has a number.

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T-Mobile UK Re-Introduces Unlimited Data, Betting Few Will Gulp It All

Jan 30, 2012 10:45 AM ET

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T-Mobile in the UK today announced “The Full Monty,” a group of mobile plans offering unlimited voice, texts and data, without any fair-use restrictions. While other carriers are looking to restrict data use they claim costs too much to carry, T-Mobile’s groundbreaking offer appears like a sacrifice on margin to gain market share. But is it?

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Reports: Barnes & Noble Partnership With Waterstones; New Nook

Jan 30, 2012 8:31 AM ET

Nook Digital Shop

Two separate reports published this weekend suggest that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is close to a partnership with UK bookstore chain Waterstones and, perhaps separately, will release a new Nook this spring.

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RIM In Trouble In Europe? Not In The UK, It Claims

Jan 30, 2012 7:28 AM ET

Blackberry Curve

RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) is taking a beating at the moment from handset makers like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung, which have eaten into a smartphone market share that it took years for the BlackBerry maker to build on both sides of the Atlantic. RIM, however, claims that it is still the company to beat in one of its key markets, the UK—although its lead is narrowing.

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Farewell, Yahoo Apps, We Hardly Knew Ye: Deals, News Plus Eight Others Gone

Jan 30, 2012 6:20 AM ET

Categories of interest on Livestand

Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure, the internet company is pulling support for 10 of its less-popular mobile apps.

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Your iPhone Has To Be Made In China, And Apple Can’t Absolve Your Guilt

Jan 28, 2012 5:00 AM ET

Apple Foxconn Factory Workers

“For a quarter of a century, Washington and Wall Street have wanted China to become an integral part of the world economy. Their wish has been granted, and now it’s time to come to grips with the implications.”—Jeffrey Garten, Yale, June 2002 (BusinessWeek)

Ten years after those words were written we still find ourselves wringing our hands over how much American prosperity is derived from Chinese manufacturing. A series of articles from The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) this week on Apple’s tricky relationship with the company that builds the iPhone and iPad makes it clear that while society may occasionally recoil at the human cost required to build our flashy mobile toys, when it comes to consumer electronics there is no Plan B.

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Report: Facebook IPO Could Arrive Next Week With Hopes Of $10 Billion

Jan 27, 2012 2:08 PM ET

We'll Finally See Some Big Name Digital Media IPOs

The long-awaited Facebook IPO might arrive as soon as next week, according to a new report. When the company does get around to filing the paperwork it will set Facebook on the path toward one of the richest IPOs in tech history.

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Jesta Digital Finally Kills Bitbop Mobile Video Service

Jan 27, 2012 12:39 PM ET

Bitbop logo

It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a business out of it—is today laying off most of the staff that worked on Bitbop and shutting down the service.

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Former Palm CEO Rubinstein Leaving HP After Demise Of WebOS

Jan 27, 2012 12:38 PM ET

Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein holding the Palm Pixi for Verizon Wireless

Jon Rubinstein, the former Palm CEO who revived the company under WebOS but was never able to produce a breakthrough product after HP paid $1.2 billion for Palm, is leaving HP (NYSE: HPQ). His departure is not exactly a surprise, coming six months after he was reassigned just before HP began to wind down its mobile strategy.

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Analyst: Google Threat To Big Ad Agencies Like WPP, Publicis ‘Unwarranted’

Jan 27, 2012 10:18 AM ET

Display Advertising

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is a massive player in the digital advertising world, but given that this remains only a part of the overall ad market, the Internet giant will not soon pose a real threat to big ad agencies of the world like WPP, Interpublic and Omnicom, according to a report out today from Pivotal Research Group.

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Can A Streaming Audiobooks Service Work?

Jan 27, 2012 8:50 AM ET

Audiobooks.com

Audiobooks.com, a cloud-based streaming audio service for iOS and Android, launches this week as a would-be competitor to the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) owned-Audible.com. Considering how many people listen to audiobooks while they are in transit, though, is a streaming service actually a workable solution?

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ingridlunden Samsung loses 2nd patent ruling in week against Apple in Germany. Considering appeal. http://t.co/D8IoYHcf

Jan 27, 2012 7:22 AM ET


Twitter Faces Censorship Backlash

Jan 27, 2012 7:46 AM ET

Angry man yelling in to mobile phone

The social network Twitter is facing a storm of criticism from users, after revealing that it has implemented a system that would let it withhold particular tweets from specific countries.

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ingridlunden Looks like Nokia has finalized the Nov 2011 sale of its Navteq ad group to Radiate? http://t.co/2SIXV0ef

Jan 27, 2012 6:22 AM ET


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Nokia Tottering At The Top Of Mobile Rankings; Apple Leading Smartphones

Jan 27, 2012 6:24 AM ET

Tightrope

With most of the major handset makers having reported earnings for the quarter that ended in December, analyst houses are laying out their rankings in global smartphone and overall mobile shipments. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has just about managed to keep its top position overall, while Apple’s phenomenal quarter has put it into pole position among smartphone makers—but only by a fraction of a percentage point.

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