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Weekly Top 5

This week’s roundup covers Apple’s record label deals, the OS X malware, the Foxconn factory explosion and patents from Freescale; Groupon’s deals with Loopt and possibly Foursquare, Foursquare and INQ, HTC’s foray into location based coupons; Amazon’s Kindle records, Lady … Continue reading

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Weekly Top 5

This week’s stories include Twitter’s Local Trends, expansion and plans to acquire Tweetdeck, Living Social’s and Groupon’s moves in the Deals space, Foursquare Day statistics and Loopt’s Q’s, Google’s quarter results, GMail features, and some Apple news.

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Whereabouts : The next social play

Like I mentioned in the last post on the subject, ‘Location’ is back in a social avatar. A few days back, Foursquare celebrated its first year of existence, and now has more than 500000 users, 1.4 million venues, and $1.35 … Continue reading

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Where are you @ ?

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to write about a shiny new toy here, but I believe we now have a service that can break the stranglehold of the holy trinity of Facebook, Google, Twitter – on this … Continue reading

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