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Canadian Firm, German Govt File Against Facebook – Toronto-based Merchant Law Group filed paperwork seeking class action status in a lawsuit against Facebook this week claiming Facebook mishandled user data during the most recent privacy changes, and seeking the sum of the money the company made as a result of making user data public in [...]

Life without the Web, Web paywalls and the e-bookstore war are in the reading list.

Life without the Web, Web paywalls and the e-bookstore war are in the reading list.

Life without the Web, Web paywalls and the e-bookstore war are in the reading list.

Life without the Web, Web paywalls and the e-bookstore war are in the reading list.

Life without the Web, Web paywalls and the e-bookstore war are in the reading list.

Life without the Web, Web paywalls and the e-bookstore war are in the reading list.

The 2010 World Cup offers a glimpse into the future of live television, where shows and sporting events are augmented by social discussions and professional commentary on the Web.

Vision Mobile in conjunction with Telefonica Developer Communities recently published the results of a developer survey entitled “Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond,” in which more than 400 developers globally were surveyed to analyze mindshare and overall sentiment for the various mobile platforms. The results of the survey were segmented into 8 major platforms: iOS [...]

Yesterday, Compete published the results of its Q1 2010 Smartphone Intelligence survey, in which behavioral and survey-based insights are gained in regards to how consumers are using iPhones, BlackBerrys, Android devices and other smartphones. Though it may come as no surprise given the proliferation of smartphones, local search, social networking and gaming are still showing [...]

Yesterday, Compete published the results of its Q1 2010 Smartphone Intelligence survey, in which behavioral and survey-based insights are gained in regards to how consumers are using iPhones, BlackBerrys, Android devices and other smartphones. Though it may come as no surprise given the proliferation of smartphones, local search, social networking and gaming are still showing [...]

With iAd a lengthy one-week old at this point, Apple is already gearing up to utilize the treasure chest of user-data its acquired through the roughly 150M iTunes accounts it has full access to. More specifically, Apple has commissioned a thorough study of the purchasing patterns of its users in terms of apps, music and [...]

Mobile apps are a great way to reach and engage consumers from all walks of life, and the UK government seems to agree.  BBC News is reporting that the UK government has spent thousands of pounds on creating numerous iPhone apps. The apps aren’t all government related either, some aim to make life easier for [...]

Our list of Top 20 Facebook Pages, complied by our PageData tool counting the number of fans added to a Page daily, was a mixed bag this week. Lady Gaga was the first person on Facebook to get 10 million fans, beating out President Barack Obama — and Vin Diesel. The World Cup was also [...]

Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, June 28th, 2010 Sims, Strategy and Sports All Appear on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU Plimus Enters the Payment Platform Wars With In-Game [...]

Distimo’s mobile app reports are always interesting simply because they’re so in-depth,  with its latest being no exception.  With graphical representations galore, the report digs deep into the world of mobile apps to report on every statistic and trend imaginable for all the leading app stores- including Apple’s App Store, Blackberry App World, the Android Marketplace, Nokia [...]

Rumors of a Verizon iPhone have existed since AT&T was announced as the exclusive carrier of the Apple smartphone better than three years ago. But this week, the rumor mill slowed and the fact checking began via an intriguing report from Bloomberg News that cited two sources (supposedly) within Apple claiming that the iPhone will [...]

AppsFire started out life as an iPhone app that used discovery algorithms to populate a list of the most popular apps, but butted heads with Apple when re-submitted to the App Store.  Since its first approach doesn’t seem to be working out, the company is taking another, rather unique, approach. The company has launched AppTrends, [...]

Apple’s long-awaited iAd launches today, and one of the first iAds ever created is also launching today- one for Nissan’s new fully-electric LEAF vehicle.  The ad takes advantage of nearly everything iAds and the iPhone has to offer, creating a truly impressive advertisement that lives directly inside the app. Briefly demoed by Steve Jobs during [...]

LivingSocial Deals, the group coupon arm of LivingSocial, just expanded their services to the United Kingdom by opening in London today. The company is set to go live in other major UK metropolitan areas, such as Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool, as well as dozens of other global markets in the coming year. We’ve written previously [...]

Google Docs has gone mobile.
Google announced today that it is expanding the capabilities of the Google Docs viewer to accommodate iPhone, iPad, and Android platforms by enabling users to open a wide variety of documents via their mobile device with the Google Docs Viewer.
Since the start of 2010, Google has allowed users to store a [...]

Portuguese soccer/football star Cristiano Ronaldo topped this week’s top 20 Facebook Pages, as measured by our PageData tool, which counts the number of fans added to Pages over the course of the week. Along with Ronaldo were plenty of musicians and television shows, a few movies and a couple of big name brands. Top Gainers [...]

On Monday, the Cupertino-based tech giant announced that 1,700,000 iPhone 4s were sold in just the first three days of the device’s release. That figure, however, takes into account hundreds of thousands of phones sold during the preorder process.

Geodelic, a startup that develops apps that come with “search-less search” — meaning the app automatically browses and shows points of interests in your immediate vicinity — has announced it’s received a $7m cash injection as a series B round of financing led by MK Capital, with previous backers Clearstone Venture Partners [...]

Amazon is offering a free Kindle reading application for phones running Google’s Android software.

Apple said the release of the iPhone 4 was its most successful product introduction yet.

Facebook hired its first registered lobbyist in California last month, and has extended the contract until Sept. 30 of this year according to state documents. William Gonzalez, owner of Sacramento-based Gonzalez Public Affairs, came on board as Facebook’s lobbyist on May 24 of this year, serving under Tim Sparapani, Facebook’s Washington, DC-based director of public [...]

With Apple’s July 1st launch of iAds a few days away, it’s being reported that many brands set to launch on opening day are still weeks, if not months away from being ready.  The main culprit is said to be Apple itself.
AdAge is reporting that a majority of iAd advertisers are still fine-tuning their creative, [...]

Hoping to stop Apple’s iPhone 4 momentum, the Android camp has ramped up the release of new smartphones, some of them powered with large, high-resolution 4-inch screens, super fast processors and other powerful features. Samsung and Motorola are leading the charge. Will they succeed?

The new Nokia N8 has the dubious distinction of being both the first and the last N-series handset to run Symbian^3 — new high-end devices will run on MeeGo. A product strategy in constant transition isn’t one that will attract developers or customers to Nokia.