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Microsoft to Take Over Skype Operations in China November 24
Friday, November 8, 2013 - 3:00pm | 517The Chinese language version of Techweb (complete with a not-so-subtle graphic depicting Skype’s emergence as the new sheriff in town) noted Friday that Chinese mobile Internet company TOM Online will turn Skype operations in mainland China over to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) November 24. The Next...
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Why Apple Rules The Business Mobile Market
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 8:45am | 630When you own business adoption in tablets, apps, and mobile devices, you must be doing something right. According to Good Technology, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the clear winner in Q2 and Q3 over Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows, when it comes to enterprise...
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Twitter, Mobile Tech And eCommerce With Groupon's Ted Leonsis (GRPN)
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 10:47am | 402Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) Chairman Ted Leonsis projected Twitter's success as they move forward towards their initial public offering, and discussed his former company AOL's (NYSE: AOL) influence over the revolutionary communication technology Friday morning on CNBC's Squawk Box. Leonsis also talked...
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Zynga Real-Money Online Gambling Comes to Facebook (FB, ZNGA)
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 1:44pm | 714Gambling, in both the online and physical worlds is all about generating excitement. Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) hoped to generate some excitement of its own Wednesday as it prepared to unwrap its real-money gambling apps for Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and for mobile. San Francisco-based, Zynga said that...
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Three Sectors to Benefit, Three Others to Suffer from Growth in Tablets
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 4:13pm | 606Tablet shipments are expected to overtake notebook shipment numbers by 2016, according to NPD DisplaySearch's Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report. Notebook shipments are expected to go from 208 million units in 2012 to 393 million by 2017, and tablets are expected to go from 121...
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If Mobile Kills the Display Ad, Who Will Win?
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 12:03pm | 993By Conor Sen, Minyanville Mobile is killing the display ad, just as the Internet killed the newspaper ad. The shift from desktop to mobile is absolutely as big as the shift from brick-and-mortar to online, and, like any major shift, will create big winners and losers. In the past two and a...
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Nvidia: The Mobile Company
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 5:17am | 548While investors focus on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Samsung, and HTC for trends and directions on the mobile market, they often overlook the semiconductor companies which enable the functioning of mobile devices. The semiconductor company that got most of the...
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Adobe Abandons Flash Platform on Mobile and TV, What Does this Mean?
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 5:17pm | 308With Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) abandoning the Flash platform on mobile and television, what does this mean for the rest of the technology landscape? 1) Steve Jobs was right. People didn't really need flash on their mobile device. Flash was a resource hog, it sapped processor cycles and battery life...
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Elephant Talk (OTCBB:ETAK) Subsidiary Highlighted in MicroCap Investor Newsletter
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 12:39pm | 862Visa Europe-ValidSoft Agreement Is Primary Focus of Advisory Service SCHIPHOL, THE NETHERLANDS--(12/06/10) - Elephant Talk Communications Inc. (OTCBB: ETAK) (http://www.elephanttalk.com/) announced that Josh Levine, editor of Levine's MicroCap Investor newsletter, discussed in his November 24,...