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Netflix Price of Admission May Be Too Steep for Verizon

Netflix shares began perking up Monday after a report from DealReporter suggested that Verizon is looking into acquiring the DVD and streaming service to kick-start a video offering of its own ...

Google’s Native Client Makes Web Apps More Desktoppy

Google showed off the results of its Native Client SDK at an in-house event recently, highlighting some of the ways early adopters such as Square Enix, Unity Technologies and Bungie have used the Web development technology ...

Google Currents: Have Digital Magazines Your Way

Google's new aggregated media app, Google Currents, launched Thursday with about 150 media partners. ...

Amazon’s Price Check Slams Retailers

Amazon is planning to offer a limited-time discount for shoppers who use its free mobile Price Check app in brick-and-mortar stores. If the customer uses the app to check the price on an item in a store, then buys the item through Amazon rather than at the store, an additional discount is applied. ...

Web Guru Throws Wet Blanket on Fire

Jakob Nielsen, the design expert dubbed "the guru of Web page usability" by The New York Times and "the Web's usability czar" by WebReference.com, didn't find too many user-friendly features on Amazon's new Kindle Fire, according to a report he published on his website Monday ...

Zynga Looks in Mirror, Shaves Billions From IPO Valuation

Online social game-maker Zynga has lowered it expectations in regard to the initial public offering it plans for the near future ...

Google Aims to Divert Amazon’s Flow With Shipping Deal

Google is reportedly in talks with major retailers to launch a shipping service that would provide same-day delivery. ...

Vast Scope of Chanel Counterfeit Ruling May Render It Useless

A Nevada judge has ordered that 228 online domains belonging to outfits that sell counterfeit Chanel items be seized, shuttered and de-listed from social networks and search engines. The case has raised questions regarding the control of Internet fraud in a widespread global marketplace and what constitutes censorship. ...

New Mobile App Rating System May Be Missing Some Teeth

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and CTIA have unveiled a new rating system for mobile software applications intended to help parents monitor activity as the number of children with smartphones and access to wireless content increases ...

FCC Chair to Put AT&T/T-Mobile Merger on the Grill

The proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger hit another obstacle Tuesday when the chairman of the FCC called the deal harmful to consumers. ...

FCC Chair to Put AT&T/T-Mobile Merger on the Grill

The proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger hit another obstacle Tuesday when the chairman of the FCC called the deal harmful to consumers. ...

HP’s Whitman Rolls Up Sleeves, Preps for a Rough 2012

Shares of HP had slightly recovered by mid-day Tuesday from the overnight slide of up to 6 percent they endured following the company's fourth-quarter earnings report Monday. ...

Hundreds of Indie Labels Cross Themselves Off Spotify’s Playlist

More than 200 labels held by content distributor ST Holdings have decamped Spotify, Simfy, Rdio and Napster recently over concerns the digital music streaming services' business models are detrimental to sales ...

Yelp Rates Itself Worthy of an IPO

Yelp filed for an initial public offering Thursday, joining a cadre of social websites that have either made the leap into public trading recently or are aiming for it in the near future. ...

Google Sets Up Another Stage in a Crowded Web Music Fest

In an effort to compete in the digital music market against giants Apple and Amazon, Google debuted its online music store Wednesday, where users can purchase and stream songs through the search giant's Android market. ...

Battery Breakthrough Could Give Gadgets Longer-Lasting Juice Boxes

Researchers at Northwestern University say they've made significant progress in research that could lead to longer life for the rechargeable batteries found in electronic gadgets ...

Volt Fire Puts Lithium-Ion Batteries Under Safety Spotlight

A Chevy Volt that caught fire in the parking lot of a crash test site has prompted a federal probe over the safety and protocol of handling lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles ...

FTC May Force Facebook to Ask Permission Rather Than Beg Forgiveness

Nearly two years after consumer advocacy groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over Facebook's privacy policies, the social network and the FTC are close to an agreement, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal ...

Soundtrack Service Lets Video Makers Add Music Without Sweating Legal Noise

Rumblefish and APM Music are teaming up to offer an online catalog of popular music and soundtracks to consumers looking to legally add sound to personal video content such as YouTube videos, slideshows or presentations ...

AOL, Yahoo, MS Cling to Each Other in Rough Display Ad Seas

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo are joining forces to sell unused online ads to each other, a position designed to combat the growing market dominance of Google and Facebook ...

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