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Facebook buys social media start-up FriendFeed

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By Alexei Oreskovic

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, said it will buy FriendFeed, netting a group of prized ex-Google engineers in the fast-growing Internet business.

FriendFeed, an up-and-coming social media startup, lets people share content online in real time across various social networks and blogs.

The service is similar to, though less popular than Twitter, the microblogging site that Facebook tried to buy for $500 million (303 million pounds) in 2008, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed on Monday, but Facebook said FriendFeed would operate as it has for the time being as the teams determine long-term plans.

Facebook's big gain in the acquisition is the engineering talent at FriendFeed, rather than the actual product, which has won critical praise, but lagged in popularity compared to Twitter, said Forrester Research analyst Jeremiah Owyang.

"These guys now how to build scalable, social applications," said Owyang.

In a statement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he admired the FriendFeed team for having created a service he described as simple and elegant.

"As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use," said Zuckerberg.

FriendFeed's four founders are former Google employees who count well known products like Gmail and Google Maps among their accomplishments.

Facebook said the founders will hold senior roles on its engineering and product teams.

FriendFeed had talked with Facebook "casually" for a couple of months, and that it became clear that the teams were "cut from the same cloths," FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor told Reuters in an interview.

He declined to say whether FriendFeed had been in talks with other companies.

One bridge between Facebook and FriendFeed might have been Matt Cohler, Facebook's former management vice president. He joined FriendFeed backer Benchmark Capital last year.

Asked what role the connection played in the deal, FriendFeed's Taylor said the decision to be acquired by Facebook was made entirely by the team at FriendFeed.

Facebook has more than 250 million registered users. In May, the social networking company announced a $200 million investment from Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies that pegged the value of its preferred shares at $10 billion.

Facebook has said its revenue is on track to rise 70 percent this year, and board member Mark Andreessen has said the company will bring in more than $500 million in revenue in 2009.

But Forrester's Owyang said that Facebook must make the content generated within the site more accessible to the public instead of only to closed networks of Facebook friends, so that the company can sell more ads.

Earlier this year, Facebook announced changes to its privacy controls to allow people to make their status messages and posts viewable to a broader Internet audience.

(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing Bernard Orr and Robert MacMillan)

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20 operadoras mundiais respondem por 59% das conexões wireless

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20 operadoras mundiais respondem por 59% das conexões wireless

Estudo da Wireless Intelligence mostra que o processo de consolidação está aprofundando a concentração Um novo estudo realizado pela Wireless Intelligence revela que as 20 maiores operadoras e grupos de operadoras responderam por mais de 58% das conexões móveis no primeiro trimestre de 2009. Ele aponta para uma maior concentração de mercado impulsionado pelo processo de consolidação que está em andamento em algumas regiões, principalmente na Europa. A primeira colocada no ranking, China Mobile, possui 11,5% de market share mundial com operações em dois países (China e Hong Kong). Com 479 milhões de conexões, ela ultrapassou outro grande grupo de telefonia móvel, a Vodafone. Na terceira e quarta posição estão, respectivamente, o grupo Telefónica e América Móvil, que possuem uma intensa disputa na América Latina. A TIM, com presença em dois países, incluindo Brasil, está na 15ª posição. O grupo Vodafone, atuando em 19 mercados, atingiu 247 milhões de clientes e ficou na segunda posição. Com presença em 10 mercados europeus, a companhia tem expandido sua atuação no Leste Europeu, Ásia e África. Sua mais recente expansão foi em Ghana, na Índia, e a próxima deverá ser no Quatar onde está prestes a lançar sua operação. A Telefónica, em 20 países, fechou o primeiro trimestre com 190,1 milhões de clientes. O grupo espanhol disputa posições com a América Móvil em 13 mercados da América Latina. Sem presença na Europa, como sua concorrente, o grupo mexicano tenta se aproximar da Telefónica, somando 174,9 milhões de clientes em 17 mercados. A China Unicom, com presença apenas na China, ocupa a quinta posição no ranking das 20 maiores operadoras mundiais. Ela responde no mercado chinês por 137,7 milhões de conexões wireless. Com 127,1 milhões de clientes e atuação em 12 mercados, o grupo Deutsche Telekom vem em seguida. O grupo Telenor, constantemente envolvido em rumores sobre fusões e aquisições, ficou em sétimo lugar nos três primeiros meses deste ano, com 96,6 milhões de assinantes. A maior presença em mercados, diretamente ou mantendo a maior parte das ações de operadoras locais, é a da France Telecom, com 26 operações. Isso lhe garantiu 85 milhões de clientes e a décima primeira posição no ranking. A Telecom Italia Móbile (TIM) soma 70,3 milhões de assinantes nas suas duas operações. O levantamento feito pela Wireless Intelligence mostra que entre as 20 maiores operadoras mundiais menos de 20% conta com redes de nova geração da telefonia móvel. Segundo os analistas da empresa, isso se deve, entre outros, ao fato de grandes operadoras terem sua atuação em países onde o estágio da implantação de redes de próxima geração ainda é inicial, como a China, e com muitos leilões de licença ainda estarem em andamento, como a Índia. Segundo Will Croft, da Wireless Intelligence, o estudo mostra que estão diminuindo as oportunidades de crescimento orgânico nos países maduros o que leva as empresas a buscarem rentabilidade com múltiplas conexões por cada assinante e se tornarem o fornecedor secundário de acesso de dados. Ele enxerga a possibilidade de o processo de consolidação se aprofundar, com as dificuldades de crescimento orgânico e os mercados emergentes mantendo sua importância estratégica para os grandes grupos.

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IPhone 3GS Handsets Overheat, Turn Brown

• By Charlie Sorrel
• June 29, 2009  | 
• 7:54 am  | 
• Categories: Phones

The iPhone 3G may, at least for some users, have an additional, undocumented feature: It can be used to toast bread.

Reports are coming in that the new, million-selling iPhone is suffering from overheating issues. The handsets are getting so warm, in fact, that the plastic cases of the white models are discoloring to pink. The picture above is from Ben on the French site Le Journal du Geek.

It's not just anonymous forum posters, either. Melissa J. Perenson of PC World has a toasty 3GS, too:

And at some point, I became aware the handset had become very hot. Very, very hot — not just on the back, but the entire length of the front face, too. I was using a game, and then later the Web browser for reading the news about Michael Jackson, all over a Wi-Fi connection while plugged in. And in those circumstances, well…toasty doesn't even describe how surprisingly hot it got. It was too hot to even put the phone against my face. No discoloration to report, though; I have the black handset, and didn't see any effects.

Other reports across the web, including the Apple discussion forums, seem to point at GPS use and playing games as the culprits. Of course, there are problems with product launches all the time, and Apple users tend to be more vocal than most. And Apple is notoriously reticent to admit anything is wrong, Remember the first gen white MacBooks that turned yellow on top?

If true, these overheating issues may even end up in an exploding battery scandal. To add to the confusion, I have noticed my 2G iPod Touch getting a lot hotter than usual since updating to the v3.0 software. This happens while web browsing, and the battery is draining fast, too. I have no idea if this is related, but if it is it could point at some bad power-management software in OS 3.0.

Overheating problems with the iPhone 3GS [Nowhere Else]

Topic : Battery getting hot [Apple Discussions]

Worries of overheating for iPhone 3G S? [Le Journal du Geek]

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NYTimes: Acer’s Everywhere. How Did That Happen?

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In the PC industry's worst slump ever, a Taiwanese company is taking aim at both Dell and Hewlett-Packard....

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O Rei do Pop morreu, viva o pop do rei

"Michael Jackson, o homem, era menor do que sua obra. Sua influência musical, maior do que conseguimos entender. Quem duvida, que vá ouvir "Thriller", nem que seja pela primeira vez. Ou a última."

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