According to media reports, the phone would deeply integrate Facebook into the Android operating system, aiding Facebook in its aim to evolve from its Web-based roots into a "mobile-first" company.
Jackson ruled Microsoft had engaged in illegal conduct by tying its Windows operating system--in which it had a clear monopoly--with its Explorer Web browser.
Google may be looking into enhancing its new Google TV product, a web-meets-TV service, or build out its own video-on-demand service.
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Social Intelligence Corp. takes personal information given to the company by its clients and uses its own software to search the web for user-generated content, collecting a broad array of links and categorizing data to generate matches.
Apple also has been planning a revamp of its iTunes music service by creating a Web-based version of it that could launch as soon as June, say people familiar with the matter.
Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) could easily add a Web-log tool to its .
And, unlike Facebook - with its spider web of friend connections, history and data - a simpler site like Instagram is much easier to give up on.
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Today, Animoto, a New York-based startup that makes photo and video-sharing software, launched its own web store with a decidedly quirky collection of items.
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In a move to reduce its dependence on Apple and develop apps more quickly for rival tablet computers, the FT in June launched a Web-based version of its mobile app, the first of its kind by a major publisher.
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And Microsoft has updated its Office Web Apps, stripped-down programs that offer free editing, via a Web browser, of files stored online.
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Netscapes problem isnt that either idea--enterprise software or web portal--is a particularly bad one, its the combination and accompanying lack of focus that is deadly.
The company has attracted considerable attention in recent weeks for the re-launch of iHeartRadio, which provides links to Web versions of its broadcast stations, along with a Pandora-like user programmable radio service.
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Last spring, when Internet stocks were sizzling, magazine publisher Ziff-Davis issued a tracker for its ZDNet Web division.
Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's deal for Tumblr gives Yahoo, one of the original big Internet companies, a fast-growing Web service that could fill one of its many holes namely, the lack of a thriving social-networking and communications hub.
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart is gearing up its Web site to become a major player within a year.
This, in turn, calls for a web version of its best-selling Office 2000 program to run only on computers using Windows 2000.
Now, after a big push, the company has shipped 1m web-enabled phones, while its competitors are only now starting to sell handsets with a browser.
Last week, the Romney campaign posted a Spanish-language advertisement on its Web site pointing to rising unemployment among Latinos.
Facebook's made no bones about the fact that its focus has shifted from a desktop web- to a mobile-focused company.
Blockbuster has moved to counter the threat from Netflix, which mails movies to customers who queue up their orders online, with a Web-based service of its own.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) envisions a feature on its Live.com Web service that would allow consumers to opt out of seeing certain ads or to ask to be contacted only at certain times.
Companies such as Plaxo, which help to synchronise address books, and Google itself, which has a primitive address book in its web-mail service, plan to turn these books into fully fledged social graphs that can do useful and productive things, perhaps including new variants of mini-feeds.
"We are betting big on the cloud with our most successful product, and we are investing heavily both in the product engineering side and the physical infrastructure side, " Tim O'Brien, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, said last year when the company first unveiled a Web-based version of its Office software.
General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) posted a letter on its web site, seeking to calm investors by emphasizing that the majority of its commercial real estate and residential mortgage assets are outside of the United States, whose domestic real estate crisis is at the heart of the world's current credit upset.
His view is that this is something of a deliberate strategy, and that Amazon will use he first-party business to drive scale to attract and retain consumers and third-party sellers, to build out its fulfillment infrastructure, to be the anchor tenant for Amazon Web Services and as a source of low-cost capital.
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For example, it lets designers sell Web-page themes to its users and takes a cut of the sale.
Google recently provided a glimpse of a Web-based music store within its Android Market, which sells apps for phones built with Google's Android mobile software.
Though Sony Ericsson declined an earlier request from Google to develop a phone to be sold through its Web-only store, Nordberg said he is "open" to future collaborations.
Despite opening up its search engine to the public last October, Hakia still has yet to semantically analyze the entire Web--its results still depend partly on a makeshift algorithm that Berkan declines to describe in detail.
The Mint has added a warning to its Web site that credit-card companies could consider the purchases cash-equivalent transactions not eligible for miles, and Mint officials plan to contact credit-card issuers "to try to implement a solution, " he says.
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