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Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Advertisement Articles for 02/07/2013 Windows Phone on a Budget: Nokia vs. Samsung FreedomPop Raises a Few More Million to Further Disrupt Mobile Broadband Airbnb Grew a Ton in 2012 Another Big Ad Tech Bet? Yup: DataXu Raises $27 Million. Microsoft Hints at Battery Add-On for Surface Pro Former YouTube and Twitter Product Heads Acknowledge They're Teaming Up Nine Questions for Peter Levine, Andreessen Horowitz's Enterprise Dude Silver Lake Contributed $1.4 Billion to Dell Buyout Offer, Filings Show If You Count Tablets, Then Apple Is the Leader in a Growing PC Market Causes Co-Founder Joe Green Leaves NationBuilder Post, Joins Andreessen Horowitz as EIR Coming Soon to Yahoo: Ads From Google Google Acquires E-Commerce Partner Channel Intelligence for $125M Amazon's Executive Team Is Shrinking Dropbox Will Help Mobile Developers Sync Better BlackBerry Z10 Jumps Off to a Record-Setting Start in Canada and U.K. Twitter Tweaks Search and Discover Products Nudged by Apple, Twitter's Porn Saga Ends in a Raw Deal for Vine Wall Street Cautiously Optimistic About LeapFrog Q4 U.S. Mail Delivery Is Taking the Weekend Off -- Permanently Livefyre Lands $15 Million Meet Bluefin, Twitter's Newest Prize, Next Week at Dive Into Media Apple Announces 25 Billion Songs Sold From iTunes Salesforce Just Made Another Quiet Acquisition Zynga Bringing Real-Money Gaming to Facebook in the U.K. Read Kara Follow Kara Subscribe to Kara Read Walt Follow Walt Subscribe to Walt Read Katie Follow Katie Subscribe to Katie Read John Follow John Subscribe to John Read Peter Follow Peter Subscribe to Peter Read Liz Follow Liz Subscribe to Liz Read Ina Follow Ina Subscribe to Ina Read Tricia Follow Tricia Subscribe to Tricia Read Arik Follow Arik Subscribe to Arik Read Lauren Follow Lauren Subscribe to Lauren Read Bonnie Follow Bonnie Subscribe to Bonnie Read Mike Follow Mike Subscribe to Mike Follow us on: iPhone app E-Readers Facebook Twitter RSS Windows Phone on a Budget: Nokia vs. Samsung Bonnie Cha Feb 07, 2013 06:00 am The Samsung ATIV Odyssey and Nokia Lumia 822 do Windows Phone a budget. But which is the better deal? read more » FreedomPop Raises a Few More Million to Further Disrupt Mobile Broadband Ina Fried Feb 07, 2013 06:00 am It will use the added $4 million to continue to come up with new ways to turn the mobile broadband market on its head, CEO Stephen Stokols tells AllThingsD. read more » Airbnb Grew a Ton in 2012 Liz Gannes Feb 07, 2013 06:00 am Airbnb is releasing some 2012 milestones this morning. The peer-to-peer accommodation site has helped host four million total guests, up from one million at the end of 2011. Also, the service grew to 300,000 listings from 120,000 the prior year. So, how much money did Airbnb make in 2012? It's not saying. read more » Another Big Ad Tech Bet? Yup: DataXu Raises $27 Million. Peter Kafka Feb 07, 2013 04:49 am No one wants to invest in ad tech anymore. Except the people who keep writing big checks ... read more » Microsoft Hints at Battery Add-On for Surface Pro John Paczkowski Feb 07, 2013 03:33 am Could those mysterious connectors on the Surface Pro be intended for a future battery pack? read more » Former YouTube and Twitter Product Heads Acknowledge They're Teaming Up Liz Gannes Feb 06, 2013 06:39 pm After a well-founded Fortune report today that former YouTube VP product Hunter Walk was teaming up with former Twitter VP product Satya Patel to start a small venture capital fund called Homebrew, both men addressed the news, sort of. Patel said he and Walk were "working on some new projects" and Walk posted a goodbye-to-Google-after-nine-years note on his blog. read more » Nine Questions for Peter Levine, Andreessen Horowitz's Enterprise Dude Arik Hesseldahl Feb 06, 2013 05:15 pm Enterprise before it was cool. read more » Silver Lake Contributed $1.4 Billion to Dell Buyout Offer, Filings Show Arik Hesseldahl Feb 06, 2013 04:54 pm Details emerge on the deal. read more » If You Count Tablets, Then Apple Is the Leader in a Growing PC Market John Paczkowski Feb 06, 2013 04:19 pm Apple dominated the PC market in the fourth quarter of 2012 -- with a tablet. read more » Causes Co-Founder Joe Green Leaves NationBuilder Post, Joins Andreessen Horowitz as EIR Liz Gannes Feb 06, 2013 04:04 pm Joe Green, who co-founded the social activism tool Causes, has left his role as president of community organizing platform NationBuilder. Green said today he would become an entrepreneur-in-residence at NationBuilder investor Andreessen Horowitz and remain on the NationBuilder board. read more » Coming Soon to Yahoo: Ads From Google Peter Kafka Feb 06, 2013 01:33 pm These are display ads, not search ads. And there's probably not that much money involved right now. But it's an interesting start. read more » Google Acquires E-Commerce Partner Channel Intelligence for $125M Tricia Duryee Feb 06, 2013 12:04 pm Google has agreed to acquire Orlando, Fla.-based Channel Intelligence from ICG Group for $125 million in cash. Channel Intelligence helps merchants maximize sales from ads purchased on Google Shopping, which made the controversial move last year to charge for listings instead of providing them for free. This is the second recent acquisition by Google Shopping; in November, it bought delivery service BufferBox. read more » Amazon's Executive Team Is Shrinking Tricia Duryee Feb 06, 2013 11:46 am Amazon's management team has quietly lost four executives over the past year. read more » Dropbox Will Help Mobile Developers Sync Better Liz Gannes Feb 06, 2013 11:00 am Dropbox said today that it was releasing better tools for Android and iOS developers to include file syncing within their apps. The new syncing should happen within a couple of seconds of any change, and it's smart about understanding things like when a device comes back online. The move speaks to Dropbox's larger ambitions about being an embedded part of applications, devices and platforms. read more » BlackBerry Z10 Jumps Off to a Record-Setting Start in Canada and U.K. John Paczkowski Feb 06, 2013 11:00 am BlackBerry's new Z10 smartphone is a record-setter -- in two of the first markets it in which it debuted, anyway. read more » Twitter Tweaks Search and Discover Products Mike Isaac Feb 06, 2013 10:51 am Twitter announced Wednesday a host of incremental improvements to its Search and Discover sections for the company's iPhone and Android apps. Most are minor tweaks, including a more integrated mix of search results, combining noteworthy tweets, activity, trends and accounts into one stream. read more » Nudged by Apple, Twitter's Porn Saga Ends in a Raw Deal for Vine Mike Isaac and John Paczkowski Feb 06, 2013 10:14 am In App Store dealings, sometimes compromise hurts. read more » Wall Street Cautiously Optimistic About LeapFrog Q4 Lauren Wilson Feb 06, 2013 09:10 am The educational toy company had a solid holiday season. read more » U.S. Mail Delivery Is Taking the Weekend Off -- Permanently Liz Gannes Feb 06, 2013 08:50 am Who's going to print up the "Blame Lance!" buttons? read more » Livefyre Lands $15 Million Mike Isaac Feb 06, 2013 08:36 am Social business software company Livefyre announced Wednesday that it secured an additional $15 million in series C venture capital, bringing the total amount raised to more than $20 million. The round was led by U.S. Venture Partners, and included existing investors Greycroft Partners, Cue Ball, HillsVen Group and ff Venture Capital. read more » Meet Bluefin, Twitter's Newest Prize, Next Week at Dive Into Media Peter Kafka Feb 06, 2013 08:15 am Twitter paid some $90 million for the social analytics company -- its biggest deal ever. Find out why. read more » Apple Announces 25 Billion Songs Sold From iTunes Peter Kafka Feb 06, 2013 08:13 am Apple iTunes customers have bought 25 billion songs since the store opened in 2003, the company announced today. In September, Apple said it had hit the 20-billion-song milestone. read more » Salesforce Just Made Another Quiet Acquisition Arik Hesseldahl Feb 06, 2013 07:22 am Maybe no one will notice. read more » Zynga Bringing Real-Money Gaming to Facebook in the U.K. Tricia Duryee Feb 06, 2013 07:00 am Allowing Zynga to conduct real-money gaming in the U.K. on Facebook will open the floodgates for gambling on the social network. read more » Get the latest news & reviews on AllThingsD.com: News | Reviews | Mobile | Media | Social | Enterprise | Commerce | Conferences | Voices | Video | Jobs About Us | Contact Us | FAQ | Privacy Policy | Advertise | Send a Tip You are receiving this email because you are an All Things Digital Newsletter subscriber. Unsubscribe sojo.blo@gmail.com from this list. Our mailing address is: 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10036 © 2013 Dow Jones & Company Inc. All Rights Reserved. Forward this email to a friend Update your profile