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By Ingrid Lunden
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Spotify Launching Integrated Apps Within Its Platform
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Nov. 30, 2011, 11:31pm
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration t… Read More »
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A big bump in business for bricks-and-mortar mobile shopping app Shopkick: the company has signed a significant deal with Old Navy clothing… Read More »
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Oct. 10, 2011, 6:43pm
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has been working hard at promoting its new and improved mobile effort, the Windows Phone 7 platform, in the past year… Read More »
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Game Over For RIM’s PlayBook? No Way, Says RIM
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Sep. 29, 2011, 9:30pm
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Even without the added pressure of a very inexpensive Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the tablet market is bound to see some mo… Read More »
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By Ingrid Lunden
Sep. 23, 2011, 2:23pm
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: » Google has started to quietly distribute its own SIM cards with Nexus S devi… Read More »
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By Ingrid Lunden
Sep. 5, 2011, 2:58pm
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