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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “VentureBeat”

• The year it exploded: 10 hottest Chinese social games of 2009

  
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  Lucas Englehardt is CEO of BloggerInsight and an editor of ChinaSocialGames.com who is working with social gaming companies on executing their China plans.  Based in Shanghai, he consults and speaks on Chinese tech, internet and new media. This has been a milestone year for social gaming in China.  What ...
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• Twitter is profitable, says BusinessWeek

  
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  Content deals with Google and Microsoft, plus renegotiated rates with the telecom companies that carry its members’ tweets, have  combined to make Twitter profitable ,  BusinessWeek veteran reporter Spence E. Ante wrote in an article published today. That’s a big surprise for a company whose stated business ...
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• The best video games of 2009; you pick your favorite too

  
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• The best video games of 2009; Pick your favorite, too

  
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  1. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony PlayStation 3. Teen) Naughty Dog/Sony. I’m on the record as saying that this first-person shooter title is one of the best video games ever made. Uncharted 2 certainly could have been a tired sequel and a clone of Tomb Raider, but Naughty Dog got this one right. Just about ...
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• Mobile games: Have we learned anything at all?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 745
  Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by GetJar. It seems games publishers are an ungrateful group. A couple of years ago you heard them (myself included) endlessly complain about deck placement, carrier content managers who didn’t call them back, lacklustre revenue shares or outrageous porting requirements. ...
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• With Khosla’s backing, Lookout aims to beef up mobile security

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 745
  A new company called  Lookout wants to take on the growing security threats around smartphones. To do that, it just raised $5.5 million in a first round from investors including  Khosla Ventures . San Francisco-based Lookout evolved from Flexilis, a security consulting startup, which in turn was founded by ...
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• MIT breaks new ground in gesture control

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 745
  A group of MIT researchers claims to have made a significant leap in gesture-controlled computing, due to a new kind of LCD screen configuration they describe as a “lenseless camera.” Leveraging recent advances in LCD technology, the team’s so-called BiDirectional or BiDi Screen display is capable of both ...
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• The future of mobile: Q&A with GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 745
  Ilja Laurs is the founder and CEO of GetJar , the multi-platform app retailer with strong claims to being second only to Apple in number of downloads. Recently, GetJar won the 2009 Mobile Excellence Award for Best Mobile Service. Laurs runs GetJar from offices in the UK, Silicon Valley, and his native Lithuania. I ...
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• Rumor: 02 is buying Israel’s Jajah for $200M — but we hear it’s not done

  
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• Rumor: 02 is buying Israel’s Jajah for $200M — but we hear it’s not done

  
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  Internet telephone company Jajah , one of a host of companies that allow users to make international phone calls cheaply over the Internet, will be acquired for about $200 million by the large Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica’s mobile division, O2 , this week, according to a report in the Israeli ...
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• Chinese video website Youku raises $40M more, furthering arms race

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 745
  Youku.com , one of the largest and fastest growing Chinese video websites, said Sunday evening it has raised $40 million in its latest round of funding and signaled that it expects to raise up to $40 million more before the round is over. We’ve written about the race between the big three Chinese video sites , ...
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• Intel’s next-generation Atom processor will make netbooks more powerful

  
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  Intel is announcing a new generation of its Atom microprocessor that will make netbooks faster, cheaper, and more power efficient. That could help accelerate the growth of netbooks, which are low-cost machines that are smaller than laptops and are meant for cruising the web. This N450 Atom processor is cheaper than ...
  17 hours ago

• Avnera and Best Buy team up on wireless home audio platform

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 745
  Avnera and Best Buy are announcing today they are partnering to create a new generation of high-quality wireless home audio platform under Best Buy’s Rocketfish brand name. The product will let you take audio from any music device, such as an Apple iPod, and broadcast the sound wirelessly to any speaker in the ...
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• Why is porn one of the top web searches by kids?

  
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• Why is porn one of the top terms in web searches by kids?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 745
  Sex and porn were the No. 4 and 5 search terms for kids, according to a recent survey by Symantec’s Norton OnlineFamily division . This reminds me of a story. I was writing a story in my home office about a porn company that was buying a stake in another company. (It wound up not being published). Then my ...
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• Week in review: Professor says Square took his technology, Facebook readies Game Dashboard

  
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• Week in review: Professor says Square took his technology, Facebook readies Game Dashboard

  
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  Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Professor claims Square took his credit card reading technology — Square is a promising startup offering a small device that lets anyone make a credit card payment from ...
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• MyWebWill prepares your final tweet, Facebook update upon death

  
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• MyWebWill prepares your final tweet, Facebook update upon death

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 745
  One rather morbid consequence of sharing our lives online is the digital trail we leave behind when we die. It’s not an idea that comes readily to the Facebook generation, but managing the profiles and blog posts left behind upon death may become a growing necessity. A Swedish startup called MyWebWill is trying ...
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• EC Roundup: Preventing executive fraud and keeping your data safe

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 745
  Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner: There’s no medal for first to market – While there’s a sense of pride in introducing a new category, there’s rarely a competitive advantage. Serial entrepreneur Scott Olson runs down the threats that come with being first – and the ...
  2 days ago

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