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Free-to-play online games were pioneered in Asia and are making lots of money for game publishers there who sell virtual goods to users inside the free games.nThat model seems to be taking off in the U.S. now, based on the latest announcement from Sony Online Entertainment. The San Diego, Calif.-based company’s Free Realms massively multiplayer online game has amassed 8 million registered us
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LONDON/FRANKFURT, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Private equity firmsnCarlyle, BC Partners and Advent will shortly submitnbids for German cable provider Kabel Deutschland ,nfour people familiar with the matter said, as market volatilitynundermines plans for initial public offerings.
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Google is trying to push more media sharing and status update features into Gmail as soon as this week, according to The Wall Street Journal.nGmail users would be able to see a stream of status updates from friends and photos and videos shared by them through Picasa and YouTube.nAlthough Facebook has come to dominate the social networking space with 400 million users, Gmail contacts represent a fo
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We’re starting to get pretty excited about this. Our upcoming GamesBeat@GDC executive game conference is set for March 10 in San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference in the Moscone Convention Center. Today’s featured speakers are as follows:nGareth Davis, platform manager, Facebook. Davis has a big responsibility at Facebook. There are more than 400 million users on the social
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Intel announced its Itanium 9300 series microprocessor today, a high-end supercomputing chip with 2 billion transistors on a single chip.nThe number of transistors, or basic on-off switches that control the flow of electrical signals in a chip, is about twice as much as what Intel and other big companies normally put in a chip.nKirk Skaugen, vice president of Intel’s Architecture Group, said
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LONDON/JOHANNESBURG, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Investment banks arenpreparing Life Healthcare, one of South Africa's biggestnprivate-hospital operators, for a public listing later thisnyear, people familiar with the matter said.
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Late last week, tech biz bloggers were shocked — and a few were cruelly happy — to read that TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington had fired 17-year-old intern, entrepreneur and Internet fameball Daniel Brusilovsky. Arrington said the teenage overachiever had accepted a computer from a company in exchange for coverage on TechCrunch. Brusilovsky also admitted, Arrington said, to asking a di
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LONDON/FRANKFURT, Feb 8 (Reuters) - A trio of private equitynfirms, Advent, BC Partners and Carlyle, are set tonsubmit bids for German cable provider Kabel Deutschlandn, four people familiar with the matter said.
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Loopt, an early leader in location-based services, will start offering users targeted local coupons and discounts.nThe Mountain View-based startup has teamed up with another San Francisco Bay Area company, Mobile Spinach, to power the offers. Through the partnership, Loopt will send users offers in their neighborhood with directions, which they can then redeem by showing their phone while at the r
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Creating a cross-platform smartphone app isn’t easy. It takes lots of work to port a single game or other app to the hundreds of different cell phones and carriers in the world.nVarious attempts to make this easy have their pitfalls. But London-based Ideaworks Labs says it has solved the problem with its Airplay software development kit. It launched its fourth version of the software in Octo
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