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Why ad-supported gadgets may be the future
July 01, 2011 09:07 
cnn.com
Amazon's recent ad-supported Kindle isn't just the future of e-readers. It may also be a look at the future of how people buy electronic gadgets: with a reduced price, subsidized by advertising.
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Ad-supported gadgets may be the future
July 01, 2011 09:07
cnn.com
Amazon's recent ad-supported Kindle isn't just the future of e-readers. It may also be a look at the future of how people buy electronic gadgets: with a reduced price, subsidized by advertising.
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Twitter: Users send 200 million tweets per day
July 01, 2011 08:43
washingtonpost.com
Twitter might limit users to 140 characters per message, but that hasn’t stopped them from speaking up. According to stats released by Twitter on Thursday, users send 200 million tweets per day, or the equivalent of a 10 million-page book. Or, to...
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The tech bubble is coming. Prepare yourself.
July 01, 2011 07:42
washingtonpost.com
Word leaked out Wednesday that LivingSocial is preparing for a $1 billion dollar IPO. (LivingSocial co-founder Tim O’Shaughnessy is the son-in-law of Washington Post Co. chairman Donald Graham.) The Washington Post also has a marketing...
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The Circuit: AT&T amps up lobbying effort; LightSquared, GPS interference; FTC,Twitter
July 01, 2011 07:30
washingtonpost.com
LEADING THE DAY: AT&T disclosed that it has spent $6.84 million on lobbying in the first quarter, up from $5.93 million by the same time last year, the Associated Press reported. The company spent its lobbying dollars on a variety of issues,...
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Apple, Microsoft snap up Nortel patents, Google doesn’t
July 01, 2011 04:41
washingtonpost.com
In a surprise development, Google was not the one to snap up patents from Nortel. In fact, it was just about the only major tech company not to get a piece of the pie. Google was the first to announce it was going after the patents back in April...
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App helps you master the grill
July 01, 2011 04:29
washingtonpost.com
To brine or not to brine? The Grill-It app can answer that for you in the clutch this weekend, whether you’re firing up steaks, pork chops, chicken, seafood, veggies or more. The app, a companion to Grilling Companion magazine, provides...
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Report: Facebook set to hit $1 billion in gaming revenue
July 01, 2011 04:10
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Internet entrepreneur Kevin Ryan on Friday predicted that Facebook is on its way to hitting $1 billion in gaming revenue this year. In an interview with Reuters, Ryan — formerly the chief executive of ad giant DoubleClick — said his forecast...
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Online game maker Zynga of ‘FarmVille’ fame to go public
July 01, 2011 04:05
washingtonpost.com
LOS ANGELES — Zynga, the online game maker behind “FarmVille” and other popular Facebook pastimes, is going public, the latest in a crop of high-valued Internet IPOs expected after LinkedIn Corp. showed that the online networking craze is a...
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Google Plus Review: Fun, interesting and totally empty
June 30, 2011 11:42
washingtonpost.com
Playing around with Google + last night, I had a ball clicking buttons and playing with the features the network had to offer. But I kept running into the same problem — there was no one in this sandbox but me. That’s the main problem the...
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