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Samsung targets Nokia Symbian developers

Samsung Electronics is luring developers working on Nokia’s Symbian platform to change sides as the Finnish company is to abandon this platform.

 
 
 

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Microsoft leveraged many of its existing developer tools to create Windows Phone 7.

Windows resets it phone 7

Gladstone Grant knows that in the technology world, second chances don't come along very often.


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Copyright reform close but no cigar

Canada's pending and long-overdue new copyright legislation has some flaws that legislators must address, lawyers says.


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A Russian analyst thinks Facebook's revenues will soar to $16.8 billion in five years.

Russians value Facebook at $76 billion

Facebook started simply as a way to help its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, meet girls at university. On Tuesday a Russian investment bank valued the phenomenally popular social networking site at more than Barclays, Tesco or Anglo American.


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Web startups clamp down on trading of their shares

Internet entrepreneur Art Norins was sick of the nonstop phone calls and e-mails from people seeking to buy shares of his company.


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More experts are touting the benefits of removing restrictions on foreign ownership in the telecommunications sector.

Do we still need foreign-ownership restrictions?

In recent weeks, a political consensus has begun to emerge on the benefits of removing restrictions on foreign ownership in the telecommunications sector.


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Arianna Huffington calls the $315-million Huffington Post-AOL deal "a merger of visions." The partners claim the new media group will reach 117 million Americans and 270 million globally.

Huffington Post closes deal to join AOL

The Huffington Post officially joined AOL Monday, celebrating with the announcement that it had nabbed reporters from The New York Times, Yahoo!, and even Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad newspaper The Daily.


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