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How Mafia Wars can fix the media
John Patrick Pullen 2010-08-10 12:51The Internet is an emporium of inequity. For example, in the massively popular social game Farmville, a little garden gnome will run you 13 Farmville ...
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The iPhone as VISA card
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2011-01-28 03:01Not content to take your money, now Apple reportedly wants to be your moneyPhotos: Apple Inc., RFIDJournal.comThe Apple (AAPL) buzz Tuesday morning wa...
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Microsoft Office to go online — for free
财富中文网 2009-07-15 01:36By Jon ForttIt’s too early to say Microsoft has checkmated Google in online documents – the latest version of Office hasn’t shipped yet. But the sleep...
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Detroit Three's survival report card
财富中文网 2009-05-27 07:22GM, Ford, and Chrysler, the former Big 3 now dwindled to the Detroit 3, have gone in such different directions they don't seem to be on the same plane...
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Why China won't charge it
Nin-Hai Tseng 2011-02-17 02:34At a time when consumers in Europe and the U.S. struggle with huge debts, most major U.S. companies have been flocking to emerging economies for the n...
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Why Apple won't buy Facebook
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2010-10-30 02:02Or Disney, Yahoo, Adobe, Tivo, Netflix, EA or any of the big names tossed out last weekSource: AsymcoThe $51 billion in cash and marketable securities...
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苹果商店向45亿银联卡敞开大门
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2014-11-20 12:00这几乎是稳赚不赔的买卖,因为中国的几百万iPhone用户中,几乎人人都有银联(UnionPay)信用卡或借记卡。银联不仅是中国最大的,,也是唯一的银行卡清算组织,在全球范围内已经发行了超过45亿张银行卡。北京时间本周一上午,苹果(Apple)宣布已和中国银联达成协议,银联卡用户在中国的苹果应用商店(...
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What will Oracle buy next?
Adam Lashinsky 2010-09-07 08:20Weighing the odds on how that $70 billion will be spent.Since Oracle (ORCL) co-President Charles Phillips said in July that the company could spend $7...
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Tracing the history of what you buy
财富中文网 2009-05-12 12:21How to make sure the cotton in your shirt wasn't picked, say, by child laborers.By Marc GuntherWhere was the cotton in your shirt grown? Who mined the...
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How gaming became the future of social media
Patricia Sellers and JP Mangalindan 2010-08-06 01:34FarmVille. Mafia Wars. Pet Society. With their collective userbases numbering in the hundreds of millions, social gaming is as ubiquitous and mainstre...