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Is The Pirate Bay Really Going Legit? Of Course Not.
You can hear the head-scratching going on at movie studios and music labels across the world: What just happened to The Pirate Bay? Reports out of Sweden are murky at best. But supposedly, a...
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The Median U.S. Broadband Speed? South Korea’s Divided by Four.
In South Korea, the average broadband download speed is 20.4 megabits per second. In Japan, it is 15.8 mbps. In Sweden, it’s 12.8 mbps. In The Netherlands, it’s 11 mbps. And in the United States, the...
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Is Spotify Spot On? Co-Founder Daniel Ek Talks About the Hot Online Music...
There’s no question that Spotify is the latest hot start-up of the moment, which would be super annoying to BoomTown–who is easily irked by never-ending froth around Web 2.0 companies–if co-founder...
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Spotify Promises a TV Service (in Sweden, of Course)
Spotify, the streaming music service Americans love talking about but can’t actually use, has given us even more to chat about: The company now promises to roll out some sort of TV service…some day....
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Sony Ericsson to Sack 2,000
Given its recent string of lousy financial reports, its weak platform strategy and declining share of the the global handset market, I suppose it was only a matter of time before Sony Ericsson began...
View ArticleAOL Begins Firing Employees Who Wouldn't Leave
In November, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said he needed 2,500 “volunteers” to give up their jobs, but not enough of them got the message–only 1,100 walked away on their own. Now Armstrong is entering the...
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Speaking of the Microsoft-Google Game of Internet Risk, Bing Adds More Square...
In one of the more interesting battlefields of the multifront war between Google and Microsoft, Bing Maps today added what it calls its “largest imagery update to date, adding 6.7 million square...
View ArticleGoogle's Grab of the Week: Android Video Chat-Maker Global IP Solutions
It has been nearly three weeks since Google bought a company. You didn’t think it was done buying, did you? So here’s Global IP Solutions, which specializes in Internet voice and video chat. Google...
View ArticleiPhone 4 Hits 17 More Countries Friday
The iPhone 4’s international roll-out begins in earnest this week. Come Friday, July 30, the device will go on sale in 17 more countries–Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong...
View ArticleSwedish Court Issues Arrest Warrant For WikiLeaks' Assange In Rape Case
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces charges of rape and sexual molestation in Sweden, is the subject of an international search, after a Swedish court issued an arrest warrant today. Assange...
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IPad Debuts in 11 More Countries
This week is a big one for international iPad launches. By its end, the device will have debuted in 11 new countries: Poland, Taiwan, Denmark, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway, Hungary,...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Leaves Amazon, Returns to Sweden
WikiLeaks has left its U.S. host, Amazon Web Services, and moved its operations back to Sweden. The whistleblowing site had left Bahnhof, its Swedish host, and sought refuge with Amazon after Sunday’s...
View ArticleJulian Assange Denied Bail After Arrest
LONDON—WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was denied bail at a court hearing following his arrest in the U.K. early Tuesday on an international warrant related to sexual-assault allegations in Sweden. A...
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Wrapp to Open Up Its New Group-Gifting Service in the U.S.
You’ve heard of “group buying,” where large masses of people commit to buying something at a discounted price. Now a company is pitching the idea of “group gifting.” A Swedish-based company called...
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Anonymous Fails, Once Again, to Make Its Point
AllThingsD.com The world seemed awfully impressed yesterday with the size and oomph of the revenge attacks carried out online in reaction to the arrests of four people associated with the file-sharing...
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Spotify's Special Projects Head Shakil Khan Moves to Path to Do Same
Shakil Khan, the well-known head of special projects for the popular Spotify music service, is taking a job with the same title at Path, the fast-growing personal social networking start-up. Khan will...
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Gap, H&M, Sephora and Others Unwrap New Social Gifting Service in the U.S.
More than 25 major retailers, including the Gap, H&M, Sephora and Brooklyn Industries, are working with a Swedish company named Wrapp to roll-out a social gifting service starting today. The...
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Netflix Heads to Scandinavia
Here’s the next stop on Reed Hastings’s world tour: His video service plans to launch in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland by the end of the year. The move is both expected and a sore spot with some...
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Meet Compuverde, Sweden's Answer to Big-Data Storage Problems
These days, CIOs are buying a few more antacids than they were before, over concerns about data storage. There’s so much more data being generated than at any previous time, for all sorts of reasons:...
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Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm
High-profile Silicon Valley entrepreneur Max Levchin is launching a new mobile payments startup today called Affirm. It’s the first project emerging from Levchin’s San Francisco tech incubator Hard,...
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Mind-Boggling: The Numbers Behind Ruzzle's Rise (And Fall?)
It may not have a well-known developer or publisher behind it, but Ruzzle has become one of the first big mobile gaming hits of the year. The Boggle-inspired game, available for iOS and Android, is the...
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Move Over, Rihanna. Meet PewDiePie, YouTube's Biggest Star.
You probably haven’t heard of PewDiePie. But your kids probably have. The 23-year-old YouTube star is a “gamecaster,” which means he makes videos of himself playing videogames, along with the...
View ArticleDirector Says BlackBerry Can Survive as "Niche" Player
One of the members of BlackBerry Ltd.’s board committee tasked with exploring strategic alternatives said the company can compete as a “niche company” in the smartphone business, but said there are...
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Narrative -- Formerly Known as Memoto -- Launches Life-Logging Camera, Raises...
A little camera that clips onto the wearer’s shirt collar and takes a photo every 30 seconds will start shipping in November, nearly a year after it raised 10 times as much money as it sought on...
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