Microsoft Rides to Rescue Nokia As It Struggles to Crash Smartphone Party
AllAfrica.com
Its domination was near total; market presence, volume of handsets shipped, marketshare, user-friendliness and user loyalty. And the vital statistics bore testament too. In 2008, it was ranked 8th largest/most valuable by Brandirectory with an equity ...

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Sina wrestles with microblog revenue plan
Financial Times
By Kathrin Hille in Beijing When the chief executive of Sina Corp presents 2011 earnings this month, investors will be eager to hear when the Chinese internet company will finally start generating revenues from Sina Weibo, its wildly popular microblog.

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Facebook, Google to Face Off in Wake of IPO
Mobiledia
Along with its newfound riches, Facebook will have the might to pull in more advertising revenue, boost user loyalty, expand its services, and, ultimately, do battle against its main competitor, Google. Google's revenue gains, largely the result of ...

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ComScore: Social Universe Still Quickly Expanding [STUDY]
Mashable
Meanwhile the social category as a whole is on the cusp of becoming the dominant form of online content, accounting for 16.6 percent of Internet minutes spent as 2011 drew to a close. A wide-ranging report from comScore found that while leader Facebook ...



2012: The Year The Old Browser Died
ConceivablyTech
A vision in which an Internet Explorer could, conceivably, replace much of Windows is not science-fiction anymore, but could soon turn into a scenario of necessity. There are different ways how to break up the evolution of the browser.

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CNNIC: China's Microblog Users Reached 250 Million In 2011
ChinaTechNews.com
China Internet Network Information Center has published a new statistics report, stating that there were 250 million microblog users in China by the end of 2011, a year-on-year increase of 296%. Meanwhile, the use of traditional Internet communication ...


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