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Facebook Bets on Real-Money Gambling in UK

Facebook on Tuesday launched "Bingo & Slots Friendzy" -- a bingo game that uses real money -- exclusively for its members in the UK. As with all of its apps, Facebook is taking 30 percent of the revenue ...

Nuance’s Nina Challenges Siri, and She Means Business

There is a new natural-language, speech-based virtual assistant in town: Nuance on Monday introduced Nina to rival Apple's Siri. ...

Banks Leave Some Overcharged Southwest Customers Swinging in the Breeze

A marketing campaign by Southwest Airlines to mark the growth of its Facebook fan base to 3-million turned into an unmitigated PR nightmare last Friday -- one that does not appear to be ending any time soon for the airline, which is typically lauded for its stellar customer service ratings ...

The Sims Go to CourtVille

Electronics Arts on Friday filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that Zynga's "The Ville" infringes its copyright for "The Sims Social." ...

How Low Can Facebook Go?

It is hard to remember that only a few months ago, the market was greedily speculating about how high Facebook's stock might go. Fast-forward to one IPO debacle, several negative research reports, the departure of several top executives, and a lukewarm earnings report, and the question is now fearfully being asked in reverse. How low can Facebook go?...

Samsung Reigns Supreme in US Smartphone Market

Samsung ranked as the top smartphone in the U.S. for the three-month average period ending in June, claiming 25.6 percent of mobile subscribers, according to the comScore MobiLens service. LG followed, with its 18.8 percent share ...

Oracle CRM Hits 20

Oracle has released version 20 of its Oracle CRM On Demand product. It is a major release with significant upgrades to the industry-specific life sciences vertical as well as horizontal functionality, Anthony Lye, SVP for cloud applications strategy, told CRM Buyer ...

Does Facebook Need a Miracle?

Facebook is a great company with a massive following -- and a lousy stock price ...

Amazon Investors Sanguine Despite Plummeting Profits

Amazon reported late Thursday that its Q2 net income had dropped an astounding 96 percent, but the market didn't seem to mind. Its stock jumped nearly 8 percent in Friday trading -- never mind the fact that it posted a net income of US$7 million compared to $191 million in the second quarter of 2011 ...

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Yardi CRM for Real Estate: Integration, Integration, Integration

When Yardi CRM launched in the fall of 2010, it was targeting what it saw as a lack of industry-specific CRM within the commercial real estate broker industry -- or to be more precise, CRM functionality that was integrated into a property management system. ...

Foursquare’s New Ad Layer Ropes In More Brand-Friendly Users

Foursquare is following up on a feature it introduced last week that layers on new ad functionality for brands seeking to target local customers ...

Netflix Takes More Punishment

Wall Street took Netflix at its word, and then some, when the company said in its earnings report that it probably would sign up fewer new subscribers this year than it had expected ...

AT&T Feeling the iPhone Squeeze From Verizon

AT&T delivered a respectable set of numbers in its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday. At the same time, its report on Q2 activity revealed how much it still depends on Apple and its devices for its revenues. ...

AT&T Feeling the iPhone Squeeze From Verizon

AT&T delivered a respectable set of numbers in its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday. At the same time, its report on Q2 activity revealed how much it still depends on Apple and its devices for its revenues. ...

Nexus 7 Plays Hard to Get

The 16 GB Nexus 7 tablet has sold out at Google Play and there is no indication when Google will have more of the devices in stock ...

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Fiitfu Puts Follow-Up Front and Center

When Mary-Jane Mehlenbacher left the corporate world to have her daughter, she didn't realize she would be leaving behind network marketing software that worked. Mehlenbacher had decided to form her own home-based network marketing company but couldn't find an appropriate CRM software application that fit her needs and single-proprietor company size. So she decided to build her own application and sell that instead...

Long Arm of the Law Snags Alleged DDoSer

Moscow resident Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, suspected of launching two denial-of-service attacks against Amazon in 2008, has been arrested in Cyprus via an international warrant ...

Google Gets It Right in Q2

The quarter ending June 30, 2012, was a solid three-month period for Google, despite the global economic turmoil and despite the costs associated with the Motorola acquisition, which closed in May ...

Twitter May Face Sisyphean Challenge in Protected Speech Battle

Twitter indicated Thursday that it will appeal a decision by New York County Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. that the microblogging site must hand over a user's posts. The case stems from an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney regarding the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 -- in particular, one that occurred in October, when protestors blocked the Brooklyn Bridge.

Apple Ordered to Publicly Exonerate Samsung in UK

A UK judge is stepping up the pressure on Apple, and possibly complicating its legal strategies in other parts of the world, by ordering it to publish a notice on its UK website and in British newspapers stating that Samsung did not copy the iPad design. The notice must stay on Apple's website for six months ...

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