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With Hangout, Google shows it can one-up Facebook
Why Facebook's new Skype-powered video chat feature shows Google has what it takes to build competitive social apps. And that Facebook may have a social rival in Google.
FORTUNE -- At Facebook's launch event Wednesday, the social network unveiled three products, including group messaging, a new full-sized buddy list design and video chat. While all are welcome additions, it was that last feature that fueled rumors for weeks. Now that it's MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 6, 2011 6:22 PM ETPosted in: Facebook, Google, Mark Zuckerberg, New York City, San Francisco, Skype, social network, Susan Wojcicki, TechCrunch, Tony Bates, Videotelephony -
Today in Tech: Facebook-Skype announcement today?
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* The Wall Street Journal reports that Twitter is looking to raise a new round of private funding that would result an influx of hundreds of millions at a new valuation of $7 billion. The news comes just seven months after the social network raised $200 million at MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 6, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Andrew Mason, Facebook, Google, Groupon, TechCrunch, Vanity Fair (magazine), Verizon Wireless, Wall Street Journal -
Today in Tech: Why you should switch to Google +
Fortune's curated selection of the holiday weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.
"At MySpace we had the luxury of having social first, and building the products on top of that layer. Then I choked and Facebook realized that vision." -- MySpace founder Tom Anderson (The Telegraph)
* Facebook may reportedly have nearly 700 million active users, but Google + has MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 5, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Facebook, Google, Justin Timberlake, Mark Zuckerberg, MySpace, Real Time Search, Sheryl Sandberg, TechCrunch -
Today in Tech: The Winklevoss twins back down
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* Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled game maker PopCap is reportedly in final talks to get scooped up by Electronic Arts for $1 billion. According to TechCrunch, the company already pulls in revenues of between $100 million and $150 million (TechCrunch)
* Foursquare will announce its largest partnership to date, a MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 23, 2011 11:48 AM ET -
The Apple-branded TV set: An analyst connects the dots
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster believes an iOS television will succeed Apple TV in 2012
In the wake of a dubious prediction published Wednesday (DailyTech: Apple to Enter TV Display Business Late This Year) and its dismantling (TechCrunch: That Apple Television Is Coming This August Alongside The iPhone Nano (And Santa)) Gene Munster could hardly be expected to hold his tongue.
No one has championed the idea of an Apple-branded TV set (as opposed MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 23, 2011 10:57 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple TV, DailyTech, Gene Munster, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Piper Jaffray, TechCrunch, television -
Today in Tech: Is Hulu for sale?
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* Hulu is considering a possible sale after receiving a takeover offer from an unspecified bidder. As a result, the company's board is looking at its options and may reach out to other companies and private equity firms that have wanted to buy it in the past. (New MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 22, 2011 9:49 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Greylock Partners, iOS, iPad, iPhone, New York Times, Sascha Segan, TechCrunch, Twitter -
Today in Tech: Verizon's new data plans
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* Verizon reportedly plans to launch new tiered data plans on July 7: 2 GB for $30 a month, 5 GB, for $50 a month, and 10 GB for $80 a month for both 3G and 4G. (If users want to add a data tethering option, so their phones MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 21, 2011 6:30 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Did Skype fire execs to avoid pricey payouts?
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"If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company." - Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO (GeekWire)
* Bloomberg reports that Skype fired several high-ranking executives -- including vice presidents David Gurle, Christopher Dean, Russ Shaw, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 20, 2011 6:30 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Does Facebook have an Instagram killer?
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* TechCrunch reports that Facebook has an HTML5-based mobile Web store in the works that iPhone and iPad users can access via their Safari browsers. Eighty third party developers, including Zynga, are supposedly working on the project. "Why? Because it's the one area of the device that Facebook MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 16, 2011 10:51 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Facebook, IBM, Instagram, iOS, IOS (Apple), iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, iWork, Safari, TechCrunch -
Today in Tech: Facebook hires ex-White House secretary
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* Apple Senior Vice President Ron Johnson, the guy largely credited for masterminding the Apple Store retail experience, is reportedly leaving for J.C. Penney, where he'll be the franchise's new president and eventual chief executive. In some ways, the move may not be all that surprising -- Johnson actually MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 15, 2011 6:30 AM ET
