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iPhone (still) saving the mobile industry

FORTUNE — The iPhone has been, by many measures, one of the most successful products in business history. Nearly 200 million iPhones have been sold in four and a half years, 37 million of them in the last three months …

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Groupon Makes Another Acquisition, Stock Wildly Overpriced

We wrote before that Groupon’s tech purchases may continue, and now the company has acquired another start-up, Hyperpublic.

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Twitter Is Testing Auto-Translate Feature

As more Twitter users flock to the site worldwide, it's only natural that the social network roll out an option that allows you to read tweets beyond your native language.

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How Facebook Outsources Its Nudity Patrol Without Exposing Your Identity

Facebook would like to be the Disneyland of the Internet — a happy place to go to have fun with your friends that's  safe, shiny and clean (more on that later). Thus there are rules: No nudity or pornography, no …

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Amazon AppStore More Profitable Than Android Market?

Android app developers looking to make bank might just want to get their apps in Amazon's AppStore, rather than focusing solely on Google's Android Market.

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iPhone 5 will reportedly launch in the fall

The next iPhone will follow the pattern set by the iPhone 4S by launching in the early fall instead of the summer, claims Japanese blog Macotakara. [Read more]

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Twitter partners with Yandex for real-time search

LONDON (Reuters) – Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of real-time information. Twitter will give …

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Facebook adds interactive image-tagging technology: A tool for convenience or annoyance?

With Facebook making new updates with or without our requests and Timeline looming over those who are waiting till the last second before the switch is mandated to their profiles, the social network giant is adding another technology to help …

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Music service gives Myspace second wind

Faded online social network Myspace said Monday it was getting a second wind due to the popularity of a freshly launched online music player.
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Can an Android Phone Run Without Google?

Does Android really allow for a smartphone experience where you don't share with Google?

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