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Globe and Mail
Facebook opening operations office in India
The Associated Press
MUMBAI, India — Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users. The office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer ...
Facebook to Start First India Center in HyderabadBusinessWeek
Facebook opens office in India, its first in AsiaLos Angeles Times
Facebook to open office in southern IndiaReuters
TechCrunch (blog) -RTT News -ZDNet Asia
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Globe and Mail
Facebook opening operations office in India
The Associated Press
MUMBAI, India — Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users. The office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer ...
Facebook to Start First India Center in HyderabadBusinessWeek
Facebook opens office in India, its first in AsiaLos Angeles Times
Facebook to open office in southern IndiaReuters
TechCrunch (blog) -RTT News -ZDNet Asia
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AP - Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users.

AP - The United States and Britain are more likely than Germany and France to witness an embarrassing downgrade of their top debt rating, agency Moody's Investors Service said Monday.

TopNews United States
@SXSW: THE DAILY DIGEST: Location Services Steal SXSW Spotlight
Billboard Business News
Location-based social networking services ruled the discussion during the opening weekend of SXSW as they used the chaos of the festival to showcase their capabilities. With so much going on at once, knowing who is where at any ...
Use Foursquare Service to Reveal Where You Are or NotTopNews United States
Telling Friends Where You Are (or Not)New York Times (blog)
SxSW 2010: The location wars are heating upZDNet (blog)
TopNews New Zealand -TechCrunch (blog) -Austinist
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Product Reviews (blog)
Modern Warfare 2 DLC is £10.20
Computerandvideogames.com
The Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack is to receive a plump 1200 Microsoft Point (£10.20) price point, it's been confirmed. The price tag - announced in the Major Nelson podcast - covers three new maps and two old ones and has naturally caused the ...
Modern Warfare 2's Stimulus Pack Priced UpGamespy.com
Popular Modern Warfare maps to reappear in Modern Warfare 2 DLCGamePro.com
Modern Warfare 2 becomes second biggest selling game in the UKEL33TONLINE
IncGamers.com -VentureBeat -MCV
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Reuters - British songwriters, composers and music publishers earned 623 million pounds ($944.8 million) in royalties in 2009, up 2.6 percent on 2008 and the first time the growth in digital revenues outperformed the drop in CD and DVD earnings.

Reuters
Google Advertisers Urged to Defect on Speculation of China Exit
BusinessWeek
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. advertisers in China are being advised to switch to rivals such as Baidu Inc. and business partners are exploring alternatives as speculation grows the US company will shut its Web site ...
China warns Google partners: Look for backupCNET
Google may Close Operations in ChinaTechtree.com
Google says China talks continue, but pullout signs growReuters
New York Times -Wall Street Journal -White Hat News
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PC World
Apple: Free iPad With Every Replacement Battery
Wired News
In a support document, Apple tells us that when you eventually send your iPad in to have its battery replaced, Apple will just send you a new iPad instead. The Battery Replacement Service will cost $100. Ever since Apple ditched the ...
Apple details iPad's 'breakthrough' mobile contractRegister
Apple to replace iPad batteries with a new iPadMacworld
Apple will not replace Ipad batteriesInquirer
Bizjournals.com -PC Magazine -ZDNet (blog)
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Wired News
Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job
CNET
Tim Bray--co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger, and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee--has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone. ...
New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of AndroidWired News
Apple's HTC patent lawsuit is a bluffBetaNews
Apple's Spat With Google Is Getting PersonalNew York Times
Afterdawn.com -ITProPortal -MediaPost Publications
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Techtree.com
Control Notifications, Activities on Google Buzz
Techtree.com
The Google team has been adding new features to its Buzz service since it was launched recently. However, if too many Buzz conversation notifications create a 'noise' and clutter in your Inbox, here's a chance to take control of it. ...
Privacy is Not Dead, Just EvolvingPC World
Google admits Buzz mistakes, tries again at SXSWVentureBeat
Privacy is not dead, says SXSWi keynoter BoydCNET
CNNMoney.com -BetaNews -RCR Wireless
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Digital Spy
Gran Turismo 5 may work with PS3 Move
Destructoid
Motion controls are coming and there is nothing you can do about it. They're coming to your favorite games too, not just new ones. With the new PlayStation Move site up and running we can check out which games will feature Move controls. ...
Some Upcoming Games with Playstation Move Motion ControlGamersDailyNews
Scenes from GDC 2010CNET
Playstation Move "A Wii Killer"?WLTX.com
GamePro.com -New Brunswick Business Journal -Play.tm
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Reuters - China Mobile's 3G outlook will take center stage this week as China's three telecoms carriers begin to kick off quarterly results, with market focus on whether the nation's dominant player will turn up the volume in its low-key 3G roll-out.

Taiwan LCD Giant Plans Big China Factory as Rules Ease
PC World
AU Optronics became the first major Taiwanese LCD screen maker to apply to the Taiwan government to build an advanced LCD factory in China under regulations that were eased last month. The company plans to build a 7.5-generation (7.5G) LCD panel ...
AU Optronics Applies to Set Up First China LCD PlantBusinessWeek
Taiwan's AU Optronics to build three bln dlr China plantPhysOrg.com
AU Optronics Submits Application To Establish Subsidiary In Kunshan, JiangsuRTT News
Reuters -Tech Eye -Digitimes
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PC World - IBM has slammed a report critical of the adoption of its mainframes in India, saying the report was driven by IBM competitors and has no credibility.

Reuters - Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support services at relatively cheap wages.

Reuters - Google said on Monday it remained in talks with the Chinese government about censorship of its Chinese-language search portal, despite mounting signs the company could soon shut the site.

AFP - Techno-hip trend-setters that design online services, software, buildings and other components of modern life have been told to "get off the sidelines" and start saving the planet at a key high-tech event.

Platform Nation
Home » Ex-Infinity Ward Bosses Sign With Talent Agenc...
Platform Nation
Unless you've been living under a rock all month, you are likely aware of the recent unceremonious sacking of Infinity Ward studio heads Jason West and Vince Zampella. After being fired by Activision on March 1, the pair filed a massive lawsuit against ...
Former Infinity Ward heads sign with Hollywood agencyGamePro.com
Rumor: Activision is Withholding Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2 RoyaltiesKombo.com
EA COO weighs in on Infinity Ward firings, retail's fateGameSpot
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AFP - The good news for traditional US news organizations? Their websites are popular. The bad news? Few news consumers click on ads and hardly any are prepared to pay for news online.