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Netflix price rise draws user ire, investor glee

Netflix Inc's hefty price increase provoked an unprecedented outpouring of outrage on the Internet, but Wall Street cautiously welcomed the move, sending its shares up nearly 3 percent on Wednesday.
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Facebook Allegedly Hijacked Third Party App to Launch Video Calling

The dust is yet to settle following Facebook's launch of video chat teaming up with Skype, a feature Facebook's founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg termed as something awesome. Far from being awesome Facebook's feature hosted at facebook.com/videocalling acquired the URL through extremely undignified means, alleges a company called Samuday Web Technologies. According to Samuday's CEO, the video chat app developed by his company and hosted under facebook.com/videocalling was ...
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Google+’s New Feature Address Book Uploader Won’t Work With Facebook

Google will roll out a flexible tool to add more contacts on Google+ over the next few days. For users with contacts scattered across diverse email services and social networks, Google+'s new address book uploader would be the one click button to synchronize and manage all. The already existing one-click contact importer on Google+ imports contacts from Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail and also takes care of keeping the sync up to date.
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Netflix Price Increase: Newer Movies for Free on Chinese Site

Netflix's price increase has film enthusiasts all over the United States saying they may cancel memberships Tudou.com - Chinese for Potato.com - is a Web site that offers full streaming films for free, often before they come out in the United States.
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Electronic Arts Buys PopCap Games, Gets in on Casual Boom

Gaming powerhouse Electronic Arts will purchase PopCap games for $650 million in cash and $100 million in stocks. Depending on how well the PopCap unit performs under EA, the final price tag of the deal could reach $1.3 billion.
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Electronic Arts to Buy PopCap as Casual Games Boom

Electronic Arts will buy PopCap Games for $650 million in cash and $100 million in stocks. The owner of PopCap will get $550 million more from EA if PopCap reaches certain earning targets through December 2013, reported NYTimes.
Electronic Arts has acquired PopCap Games for $1.3 billion.

Electronic Arts Buys PopCap Games for $1.3 Billion

The second largest U.S. game producer Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) plans to buy PopCap Games, creator of Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies, for nearly $1.3 billion in order to expand mobile gaming presence. EA is to pay $650 million in cash and $100 million in EA shares for PopCap, with possible earn-outs that can total the $1.3 billion.
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App to View Facebook on Google+ Gains Popularity [VIDEO]

Whether Facebook or Google+ will top social media hierarchy is debatable, but an Israeli company has developed an app to bridge the gap, allowing Google+ users to access their Facebook account directly on the newly launched site.

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