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| Monday, February 16, 2009 |
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 Next Up For Google Android: Big Game Developers? Google is now accepting paid apps for Android-based phones, with sales set to this week. This is an important step for Google: While the company has been able to attract more than 800 free apps, that's tiny compared to Apple's iPhone App Store, which is near the 20,000 app mark. The ability to sell commercial apps should help Google bridge the gap. Google doesn't necessarily need high-end game publishers on board, but that can't hurt either. So far, their participation in the Android software market has been limited. Electronic Arts, for example, offers several games for BlackBerries and eight games for the iPhone, including premium titles like Spore and SimCity. But so far, EA has announced just three games for Android -- Tetris, Bejeweled, and Monopoly. One problem slowing investment: Google's market share is still relatively small, which means dollars might be better spent elsewhere. That could change later this year when more phone makers like Motorola, Samsung, LG, and potentially Dell start selling Android-based phones. In the meantime, Google has a chicken-and-egg-like problem. Without cool apps, consumers have fewer reasons to buy Android phones instead of iPhones. Without a big install base, app makers have fewer reasons to invest in Android. Read > iPhone Still Winning Mindshare WariPhone Fart Apps To Face Off In Court | |
| Twitter Raises $35 Million Twitter now has the war chest it needs to try building its microblogging service from a geek tool to a mainstream utility. The company has raised $35 million in new financing. Read > | |
| Why Strong DVD Rentals Could Be Good News For Comcast With the economy in the toilet, DVD rental services Netflix and Redbox (kiosks) are on fire. But longer term, that could end up benefiting their cable industry rivals like Comcast. Read > | |
| MapQuest: A Symbol Of Everything That's Gone Wrong Is the real 2009 opportunity for AOL to take great, more focused, franchise properties like MapQuest, and post their first win in creating a next-gen version of AOL, perhaps manifested as a holding company sitting on top of material stakes in properties spun out of the mothership? Read > | |
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What Web sites do parents, schools, and small businesses censor the most on their networks? Porn? Time wasters? Shopping? Social networks? All of the above! Click through for the complete list. Read >List: Every Bank To Be Technically Barred From Hiring H-1B Workers A victory for those opposed to the H-1B program. The Grassley-Sanders Amendment to the $789 stimulus bill, which aims to make it significantly harder for any company taking TARP money to hire H-1B immigrant workers, has been added to the final version of the stimulus package and approved by the House-Senate conference committee. That makes the new restriction on immigrant tech workers highly to become law in the coming days. Read > Can Bridge Loan from Liberty Free Sirius? John Malone's play on the new hit show, Survivor: Sirius XM: he's offering a big bridge loan that will help Mel Karmazin pay off EchoStar CEO Charlie Ergen's debt, which matures on Tuesday. Read > What Tech Execs Love About The Stimulus No one likes a compromise, and it feels like no one likes the new $789 billion stimulus bill. At least it seemed that way till the WSJ rounded up three tech executives who sang its praises. Read > Ebay Should Tell Animal-Rights Activists To Take Protests Elsewhere Ebay is under fire from animal-rights activists again. Last time, eBay was criticized for allowing the sale of ivory on its site, and the e-commerce giant finally banned the ivory trade in January. Read > | |
| Google Buys A Paper MillGuitar Zero: Gamers Growing Bored Of Music GamesMicrosoft Hit With Nuisance Lawsuit Because People Hate VistaPeggy Noonan: This Is New York | |
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