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“Lazy Sunday 2”: “Saturday Night Live” Revives Big Media’s First Viral Video

Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell are older and healthier. And they would like a check from YouTube.

Peter Kafka in Media
May 20, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

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China Clears Google’s Motorola Mobility Deal

John Letzing, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 19 at 2:15 pm PT

Google said Saturday that Chinese antitrust authorities have cleared the Internet giant’s proposed purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., pushing the $12.5 billion deal over its last regulatory hurdle.

$$FB$$ Has Arrived: So Now What?

Mike Isaac in Social on May 18 at 5:01 am PT

Relationship Status: Public.

A Look at Android Fragmentation: The Good, the Bad and the Pretty Charts

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 17 at 5:00 am PT

OpenSignalMaps looked at the people downloading its software and found thousands of different devices from hundreds of different brands.

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What to Expect When Facebook Is Expecting: Five Predictions for Facebook’s First Public Year

Ben Elowitz, Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint in Voices on May 16 at 2:11 pm PT

I have five predictions of how Facebook will be maturing in the first year after its IPO.

Samsung Rides Android Past Nokia to Take Sales Lead

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 16 at 11:55 am PT

A two percent decline in mobile phone shipments during the first quarter of 2012 may have hurt some handset vendors, but it did little to slow Samsung.

Google Gets Semantic, Launches Knowledge Graph Starting Today

Liz Gannes in News on May 16 at 10:00 am PT

Google today formally launches some anticipated and previously glimpsed semantic features for its core English search engine on Google.com accessed through computers, phones and tablets.

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Fab.com Ditches Google+ in Favor of Pinterest

Lauren Goode 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.

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

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

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

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

Peter Kafka 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.