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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “venturebeat”

• Walmart won the Thanksgiving Day online shopping battle

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  For the fifth year in a row, Walmart saw the most online traffic on Thanksgiving day, according to market researcher Experian Hitwise . Walmart had 14.97 percent of of the traffic among the top 500 most-visited retail web sites on Thursday, up 9 percent from 13.72 percent a year ago. Amazon.com was second with ...
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• Week in review: Modern Warfare 2 smashes records, Facebook co-founder’s Asana raises $9M

  
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• Modern Warfare 2 smashes records, Facebook co-founder’s Asana raises $9M (via postie)

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Bookmark this categoryHere’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. (It’s a little shorter than normal due to the Thanksgiving holiday.) First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 smashes industry records — The latest in a parade of ...
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• Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: Business before health and what to do if you’re hacked

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner. Sacrifice your health for your startup – You’ve heard about the importance of a work/life balance, but if you’re an entrepreneur, those rules often don’t apply. Start-ups are demanding beasts, notes angel investor Jason Cohen, and if ...
  18 hours ago

• Downey, Calif. says yes to Tesla Model S Plant

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Downey, Calif. is one step closer to becoming home to Tesla Motors ‘ pricey new assembly plant. The City Council voted earlier this week to approve a memorandum of understanding with the Industrial Realty Group, the company that manages the 80-acre tract of land that Tesla is considering. Currently used by a ...
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• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 smashes industry records

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  The latest in a parade of hits, Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has sold an estimated $550 million in the first five days of its release, bringing the entire The Call of Duty series $3 billion in sales between its six titles. Modern Warfare 2 officially smashed opening-day sales records with 4.7 ...
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• Twitter Japan’s new monetization plan: Premium content

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Twitter Japan will start allowing “premium” tweeters to charge readers a fee, said an executive at Twitter’s Japanese partner. The announcement comes from Kenichi Sughi, an executive at Digital Garage, whose remarks at the Mobidec 2009 conference were reported by local news sources and then summarized by Media ...
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• What are Google’s real motivations behind Chrome OS?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Chrome OS is Google’s latest entry into the consumer space. It is designed to be an operating system that runs on customized hardware and provides the user with only a state-of-the art browser running  HTML-5 and some plugins. The tech (and mainstream) media has seen no shortage of opinions about its meaning and ...
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• Our top 10 gift ideas: Last year’s gadgets are now worth the price

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Sometimes the newest gadgets are too far out on the bleeding edge. They don’t work out of the box, and they have a few too many bugs in their initial versions. They’re also usually too expensive. But the following list of 10 cool gift ideas focuses on products or services that have been around for a while. The ...
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• Augmented reality to be a $732 million market by 2014?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Hype around augmented reality, a technology that can superimpose graphics or information over the real world in your phone’s viewfinder, is at a fever pitch. But can it deliver the revenues? Around two dozen applications like Layar, Junaio and Wikitude have burst onto iPhone and Android devices as ...
  3 days ago

• 5 o’clock roundup: Mac fans try to hijack Windows, Emblaze unveils First Else smartphone

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Here’s the latest action: Mac fans try to hijack Microsoft window display — In a holiday-themed promotional effort, Microsoft set up Windows 7 displays in Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, displaying messages from Twitter with the hashtag “#holidaywindows.” Hoping to hijack the display, mischievous Apple fans ...
  3 days ago

• The New York Times reports off Facebook photos for the front page

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Ah, the sweet state of journalism today.Tweets and Facebook are infiltrating the hallowed reporting of the Gray Lady, as a Facebook photo made the front-page of the newspaper’s Web site today. Admittedly, the report raises rather serious questions about the safety of U.S. President Barack Obama. The story is about a ...
  3 days ago

• The New York Times reports off Facebook photos for the front page

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Ah, the sweet state of journalism today. Tweets and Facebook are infiltrating the hallowed reporting of the Gray Lady , as a Facebook photo made the front-page of the newspaper’s Web site today. Admittedly, the report raises rather serious questions about the safety of U.S. President Barack Obama. The story is ...
  3 days ago

• Fast-growing sync service Dropbox reveals $6M of new-ish funding

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  It has been a good few months for Dropbox , a startup that that backs up and synchronizes your files — after crossing the 1 million user mark seven months ago, its audience has now tripled to 3 million. While publicizing those growth numbers, the San Francisco company also revealed that it has raised $6 million in ...
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• Fring launches video VoIP for mobile

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Fring , which started out offering a VoIP client for mobile phones has added the ability to make and receive video calls from mobile phones, letting you see your friends as you talk to them — for free. As with the VoIP client, you have to be a Fring user, or “fringster,” as CEO Avi Schechter calls them, to ...
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• Hulu U.S. video streams soar by nearly 50 percent in October, Google’s YouTube flat

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Video viewing habits are continuing their shift online as more than half of people in the U.S. watched video on the Internet in October, according to comScore. Hulu is rising rapidly. The video portal for professionally produced content attracted 47 percent more views over the month, at about 850 million views in ...
  3 days ago

• Tesla eyes Downey, Calif. for Model S assembly plant

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  Tesla Motors may have finally picked a site for its new Model S Assembly plant — an announcement that has been awaited with bated breath by California politicians and those in the advanced vehicle industry for months. While the company has yet to confirm the selection, the city of Downey, Calif., likes its chances ...
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• Study: Hybrid cars hit more pedestrians

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  According to a recently released National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study, hybrid-electric vehicles are up to twice as dangerous to pedestrians as traditional cars. The effect is at its worst in the city, when HEVs are almost silent. Near-silent vehicles are harder to detect, hindering a pedestrian’s ...
  3 days ago

• TVDeck creates a TV Guide for web video

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  TVDeck , a new site that launched its public beta test yesterday, aims to help Internet users find some of the best and most interesting videos among the massive amounts posted on the web. TVDeck does this by aggregating the feeds, in a way somewhat similar to Alltop, of all the best shows online. There are a huge ...
  3 days ago

• GreenBeat: Ultimate media roundup — pics, videos, slides and more

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 780
  At this time last week, we were just about to kick off our inaugural GreenBeat conference focused on the Smart Grid. We’re thrilled to still be receiving valuable feedback and new ideas for the event next year. To provide our readers — including those who couldn’t make it out this time — with a taste of the ...
  3 days ago

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