The real portal battleground for these rivals will be the mobile Internet and unlike the PC-based web, they are practically tied.
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Despite early technical and acceptance problems, VCs tantalized by the market's potential continue to back mobile advertising startups.
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A $4.7 billion bid for a valuable swath of spectrum, which may have come from Google, could change the mobile communications landscape for decades to come.
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Web retailer adds format flexibility as both content and distribution of books, music, and movies becomes more digitized.
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Video giant tunes up its application for mobile phones but could be avoiding wireless carriers.
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Mobile advertising upstart gets funding for technology that promises to dish up personalized ads to cell phones.
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Startup becomes the latest in a growing list of companies to receive funding or be acquired as banks and corporations battle fraud.
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Maker of graphical remote control interfaces and devices for TV sets will use cash infusion to add to its product portfolio.
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Chip maker says it has come up with a technology workaround for one of three Broadcom patents for which a judge imposed injunctions on the sale of products based on those patents.
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Telecommunications company splurges on subscriber database software supplier that took just $40 million in funding in five years.
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Warner Music Group becomes one of the last of the major labels to give in amid an industry slowly caving on digital restrictions.
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Dutch chip maker navigates its way into the booming but crowded GPS chip set market with purchase of U.S. GPS semiconductor maker.
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Startup targets carriers and handset makers as investors continue to pour money into the crowded mobile social-networking market.
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Market saturation and falling handset prices are forcing phone makers into services. But can they really compete with carriers?
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Steadfastness, star power, and deep pockets may not be enough to start a revolution in the wireless world. But Google will certainly try.
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Terrorism concerns are driving spending on Capitol Hill. That means government contractors could be on the hunt for security specialists.
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