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Apple’s App Store hits 50 billion downloads, but Android’s catching up
It’s official: more than 50-billion apps have been downloaded from the Apple App Store since it was launched in mid 2008. With iDevice usage…
Google now lets you send money as an email attachment
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BlackBerry Messenger is headed to Android and iOS: but can it compete?
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Play Atari Breakout straight from image search with Google’s hidden game
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With only 1 million installs, Facebook Home slips in worldwide app rankings
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YouTube officially launches pay-to-subscribe option for partner channels
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After the ‘confusion’, Socialbakers puts Facebook country stats behind paywall
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BitTorrent launches locked bundles, trying to distance itself from pirates
BitTorrent — the company behind the file format that users have been gleefully using to share and download pirated content for years — has…
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