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Submission + - Indian Village Renamed Snapdeal.com (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by ideaz on Friday June 17, 2011 @01:35PM

ideaz writes: A village in India has decided to rename itself and henceforth be known as Snapdeal.com Nagar (which means town). Snapdeal.com being an online couponing company that recently raised $12 million and has the lead over Groupon in India in the local ecommerce space. Snapdeal has adopted a remote village in India and enabled clean drinking water facilities for its people by installing manual pumps. To show their gratitude, the village’s residents have decided to rename their village to Snapdeal.com Nagar, actually taking the company by surprise.

Submission + - Pandora Subpoenaed in Probe of Mobile-App Privacy (businessweek.com)

Submitted by ideaz on Monday April 04, 2011 @04:37PM

ideaz writes: Pandora Media Inc., the largest Internet radio company, said it’s been asked for information as part of a federal grand-jury probe into the way smartphone software developers handle personal data.

Pandora isn’t a specific target of the investigation and similar subpoenas have been issued to other publishers of apps that run on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Google Inc.’s Android operating system, the company said in a securities filing today.

Submission + - Microsoft reportedly kills off Zune hardware (engadget.com)

Submitted by ideaz on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:06PM

ideaz writes: After years of mediocrity and weak sales, Microsoft is finally killing off its Zune media player, Bloomberg reports.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/zune-2011-3?op=1#ixzz1GbtdzijK

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