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Yahoo Debuts ‘Living Ad’ Format in iPad AppAds for Toyota’s Prius V appeared over the weekend in Livestand, Yahoo’s new digital reading experience for the iPad. As exclusive sponsor of the new app, Prius has 40 percent share of Livestand ad space during the launch period. Toyota is using Yahoo’s so-called Living Ad forma... Leaked Apple Brochure Reveals Black Friday DealsEvery year on Black Friday, Apple offers many of its products at cheaper prices, with discounts usually ranging from 10% to 15%. This year will be no different, based on a leaked sales brochure unearthed by 9to5Mac. According to the brochure, on Nov. 25 customers will be able to buy Mac... Google Wave, Knol and Gears Headed for Retirement [VIDEO]Google has shared the dates that several products “which haven’t had the impact we’d hoped for,” will be shutting down. While the company had already announced the end of Google Wave and Google Gears, their respective demises now have specific dates attached. Additiona... First Football Endzone Hashtag Touches Down in MississippiThe ol’ endzone dance just got even more social. When players in this Saturday’s Battle for the Golden Egg — the annual college football clash between Mississippi State and the University of Mississippi — celebrate after scoring a touchdown, they’ll be doing so on to... Foursquare Checkins Reveal Holiday Travel Patterns [INFOGRAPHIC]Click image to enlarge. In honor of Thanksgiving travel, Foursquare has posted an infographic on the company’s blog showing checkins related to travel in the United States by plane, train, and automobile, covering a period from Halloween until just after Christmas in 2010. For airplane a... Apple Introduces Game Subscriptions, China Surpasses U.S. Smartphone Sales: Today’s Top StoriesWelcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on five particular stories of interest today. Apple Introduces Game Subscriptions Seattle-based game developer Big Fish Ga... Bill Gates Testifies: Microsoft Beat WordPerfect Fair and SquareBill Gates testified in a Salt Lake City courtroom Monday in a lawsuit that accuses Microsoft of — surprise! — monopolistic behavior. The accuser: former WordPerfect owner Novell. If you’re old enough to remember Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a lame movie, before it became a hip TV s... Will HTC ‘Buffy’ Be the Facebook Phone We’ve Always Wanted? [REPORT]Facebook is working with HTC to develop a phone that has a much deeper integration with the social network than any previous “Facebook phone.” That’s according to a report from All Things D, which says the phone is probably 12 to 18 months away from hitting store shelves. Codenamed “Buffy... Billion Dollar Brothers: Entrepreneurial Lessons From the Duo Behind ‘Guitar Hero’Bernard Moon is co-founder & CEO of Vidquik, a new web conferencing and sales solution platform, and blogs at Silicon Moon. I met the Huang brothers, Charles and Kai, a few years ago through a mutual friend over BBQs and casual poker nights, and Kai is an occasional StarCraft partner if my ... Samsung Lampoons Apple Mania in Galaxy S II Ad [VIDEO]Samsung attempts to undermine Apple’s mystique and its hold on consumers with a Galaxy S II ad that presents hard core Apple fans as lemmings who are so blinded by marketing that they can’t acknowledge a superior phone. The ad, which was set to premiere on Facebook Tuesday evening and ... |