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Dominant in China, UCWeb Brings Its Mobile Browser to Silicon Valley

With 50 percent of the mobile browser market in its home market of China, UCWeb is now looking across the Pacific.

Liz Gannes in Mobile
May 16, 2012 at 5:00 am PT

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Fab.com Ditches Google+ in Favor of Pinterest

in News on May 16 at 5:26 am PT

Fab.com, the shopping Web site that raised $40 million late last year in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz, has revamped its site to highlight more social features, including the ability to filter its live shopping feed by category, buy straight from the feed, and see what Facebook friends are buying. Fab has also removed its Google+ button in favor of a Pinterest pin. The company claims four million members in the 10 months since its launch.

Facebook Is Still Figuring It Out. Will Advertisers and Investors Wait Around?

in Media on May 15 at 7:42 pm PT

“Advertisers are learning and experimenting” with Facebook’s ad business, says Facebook itself. GM’s move shows the downside of making it up as you go.
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Bing Goes Sleek and More Social

in The Digital Solution on May 15 at 3:43 pm PT

Microsoft’s revamped search engine shows promise — if users can adapt.
Bing's Stefan Weitz says search is better with faces.

PayPal to Unveil Newest Retail Partners for In-Store Payments Next Week

in Commerce on May 15 at 2:56 pm PT

PayPal is hosting a media event next week where it will unveil the next batch of mega-retailers that are adopting the company’s online payment network at the register.
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Google to Expand Mobile-Device Partnerships

in Mobile on May 15 at 2:30 pm PT

Google Inc. plans to give multiple mobile-device makers — rather than just one partner — early access to new releases of its Android mobile operating system and to sell those devices directly to consumers, said people familiar with the matter.

Google Says Forced “Sharing” Is a Bug, Not a Feature

in Media on May 15 at 11:38 am PT

No, you don’t have to spam that AdWeek story to your pals before you read it. But somebody’s gotta pay something for this stuff, someday.
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Cannes Ad Conference Roars for Twitter’s Jack Dorsey

in Media on May 15 at 7:02 am PT

The Cannes Lions, the people who put on a giant advertising trade show every year in France, have named Twitter’s Jack Dorsey as their “Media Person of The Year.” The honorific comes as Twitter has begun ramping up its ad-selling efforts. For context: Previous winners include Google’s Eric Schmidt and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

At 28, Few Tech Titans Could Hold a Candle to Zuck

in Social on May 14 at 3:55 pm PT

Happy birthday, Mr. Zuckerberg. Where were your fellow tech luminaries when they turned 28?
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Ross Levinsohn’s Yahoo Plan: Back to the Future

in Media on May 13 at 4:08 pm PT

Want to figure out what Yahoo’s new boss wants to do with the company? Look back at what he did last year.
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Meet the Man I Call “The Hair”: The Video Stylings of Yahoo’s Newest CEO Ross Levinsohn

in Media on May 13 at 12:03 pm PT

Here he is in living color!
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Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo

in News, May 11, 2012 at 7:42 pm PT

Google’s Web Search Market Share Rises in April

in News, May 11, 2012 at 3:47 pm PT

A Million Users? Pshaw. What’s a Hit in Today’s Metrics?

in News, May 11, 2012 at 2:23 pm PT

Apple’s Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off”

in Mobile, May 11, 2012 at 10:16 am PT

Is YouTube’s Ad Pitch Working?

in Media, May 11, 2012 at 7:19 am PT

Microsoft’s Sneaky Success: The Xbox Is the Most Popular Video Player in the U.S.

in Media, May 10, 2012 at 11:41 am PT

Klik App Does Mobile Facial Recognition in Real Time

in Mobile, May 10, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

Google Results Protected by First Amendment, Says Google-Commissioned Report

in News, May 10, 2012 at 4:30 am PT

Courting Precious Developers, Facebook Announces an App Center

in Social, May 9, 2012 at 1:54 pm PT

Google Revamps Google+ for iPhone

Adaptly Tries to Ride Facebook’s Ad Rise, With a $10.5 Million Round

in Media, May 9, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

Google CFO Patrick Pichette: I Don’t Get Why People Think Mobile Ads Are Worth Less

in Mobile, May 8, 2012 at 7:00 pm PT

Tweet Free or Die: In Defense of Occupy Protester, Twitter Fights the Man

in Social, May 8, 2012 at 5:49 pm PT

Demand Media’s Q1 Earnings: Kung-Goog Panda Did Not Kill Us!

in News, May 8, 2012 at 2:16 pm PT

Oracle’s Narrow Victory Is Really Google’s Win in Java Trial

in News, May 8, 2012 at 6:40 am PT