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Today in Tech: Can Firefox survive?
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"Yeah, Google's a great company, and I think we want to look at and learn from everything that they do. But at the same time, people have shared a lot on Facebook and have already told a lot of their life story on Facebook. And we think that we have by far better tools for doing that." -- Mark Zuckerberg on whether Google+ is a threat (The Next Web)
* CNNMoney reports that Facebook bought the location-based service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum. Most of the Gowalla team will move to Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters to work on the social network's recently-introduced Timeline feature. (CNNMoney)
*With market share of its desktop browser declining and a tiny 1% share of the mobile browser space, can Mozilla's Firefox browser survive? The company is doing all it can to stay competitive -- making mobile a priority, hiring new talent -- but the question remains whether those efforts will be enough against heavyweight browser competitors like Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL). (Bloomberg Businessweek)
* SAP (SAP) plans to buy the Web-based enterprise software company SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion. The deal is expected to close early next year and comes roughly two months after rival Oracle (ORCL) agreed to purchase RightNow Technologies, a customer service software maker, for $1.4 billion. (The New York Times)
* Salman Khan made waves when Khan Academy's free online collection of education videos took off. Now, Khan wants to do it again by integrating those videos into the school curriculum, starting 36 institutions around the country. (The New York Times)
* Traditional game companies like Microsoft (MSFT), Nintendo, and Sony are readying a new wave of gaming hardware, but is next-generation gaming actually already here? (Fortune)
* With celebrities like Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, and Leonardo DiCaprio getting in on the investing game as of late, GigaOm explores whether we're seeing a fad or the future. (GigaOm)
* Meet Senzari: a Pandora-like startup with $2 million in angel funding that wants to outperform Pandora itself by offering a wider selection of music (10 million plus vs. Pandora's 900,000) to users around the world. Senzari is currently in private beta in the U.S. and Brazil, but plans to expand to Latin America, Spain, and Australia. (TechCrunch)
* THE PARTING SHOT: A look at Facebook's "Open Graph" and why the social network is pushing automatic sharing (aka "frictionless sharing") so hard. (Robert Scoble/Scobleizer)
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Has the music industry touched bottom?
The music business will never be what it was before the Internet but a slight rise in album sales is a sign that it can at least endure.
FORTUNE -- It has taken much longer than it should have for online distribution of music to come together. Rather than accept the inevitable, the recording industry spent years suing its own potential customers for illicit downloads and resisting efforts to create legitimate MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jul 8, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Groupon rushing IPO?
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*All Things D reports that daily deals site Groupon wants that initial public offering (IPO) to happen sooner rather than later -- and by "sooner," we mean as early as this week. Regardless of when ever it does go public though, the company could be valued at $15 billion-plus. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 11, 2011 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple Insider, Farmville, Groupon, Ice Cream Sandwich, Initial public offering, Lady Gaga, Y Combinator -
Today in Tech: Lady Gaga gives to Zynga, Apple delaying iPhone 5?
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Lady Gaga donated $1.5 million to Zynga's fundraising initiative with Save the Children to support relief efforts in Japan. (The donation comes not long after Zynga raised more than $2.5 million, as well.) "I'm inspired that my little monsters banded together to help those affected by the terrible MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 29, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: American Red Cross, Apple, AT&T, Charles McKee, Facebook, Google, iPhone, iPhone 5, Lady Gaga, Mobile, New York Times, RealNetworks, Sprint Nextel, VentureBeat, Zynga -
Google goes Gaga (Video)
Lady Gaga stopped by the GooglePlex for an hour plus interview with Marissa Mayer.
Lady Gaga obviously met some of the higher-ups including extrovert/introvert opposite Larry Page, above. Full video below, in which she spends some time talking to the audience about YouTube's role in popular culture:
Seth Weintraub - Mar 22, 2011 10:44 PM ET -
A soggy night in the iPad line - update
Waiting in the queue for Apple's latest hot gadget is a cold hard way to earn some cash
[UPDATE: The No. 1 spot changed hands Friday morning for $900. See below.]
Six hardy souls were huddled under red and black umbrellas in front of the big glass cube of Apple's (AAPL) Fifth Avenue retail store at 5 p.m. Thursday night -- 24 hours before the iPad 2 was scheduled to go on MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 11, 2011 9:45 AM ET -
Lady Gaga, Darth Vader hawk Android in Japan
Big names are getting behind high profile Android roll outs in Japan.
In the U.S., we're lucky to get a little green robot. In Japan, Android phones are advertised by big names such as Lady Gaga, who is backing Sharp's IS03 on KDDI au. The ISO3 has the same display as Apple's iPhone 4 with an extra LCD below it.
The campaign follows NTT DoCoMo's entertaining Darth Vader campaign for the Samsung Galaxy S:
Vader has been MORE
Seth Weintraub - Nov 29, 2010 12:22 PM ET -
How Facebook fixed the social advertising problem
MySpace was once the big kid on the social networking block, but Facebook beat it in part by improving on its social advertising strategy, or lack thereof.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
So much of the discussion around Facebook centers on the way it's shaping our social interactions with others that it's easy to overlook how profoundly the company is rewriting the rules of online advertising. When Facebook's revenue is mentioned, it's MORE
Nov 22, 2010 3:39 PM ET
