{"id":101097,"date":"2009-12-25T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T21:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=88253"},"modified":"2009-12-25T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T21:29:15","slug":"what-happened-in-tech-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/101097","title":{"rendered":"What Happened in Tech This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Twitter bought Mixer Labs. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/23\/twitter-acquires-geoapi-maker-mixer-labs\/\">View<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>HTC became a smartphone hero. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/23\/how-htc-became-a-smartphone-hero\/\">View<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>O2\/Telef\u00f3nica announced Jajah acquisition for $207 million. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/23\/o2-jajah\/\">View<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Blippy launched. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/22\/blippys-philip-kaplan-on-the-last-frontier-of-private-info\/\">View<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>App analytics firms Flurry and Pinch Media merged. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/22\/app-analytics-startups-flurry-pinch-media-merge\/\">View<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Google released its Open manifesto. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/21\/googles-open-manifesto-tells-it-like-it-is\/\">View<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Incubators made a return. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/21\/the-start-project-launches-return-of-the-incubator\/\">View<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Twitter might actually be profitable. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/21\/twitter-maybe-profitable-no-seriously\/\">View<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>MyTown proved to be bigger than FourSquare and Gowalla. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/21\/its-really-not-that-hard-to-grow-location-based-apps\/\">View<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In addition, GigaOM Pro has the following wrap-ups for its subscribers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/as-fox-time-warner-cable-fade-to-black-will-hulu-keep-the-lights-on\/\">Will Hulu be able to keep its light on in the Fox-Time Warner Cable blackout<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/how-facebook-should-fix-its-privacy-problem\/\">How Facebook should fix its privacy problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/spot-instances-won%E2%80%99t-commoditize-the-cloud-and-thats-ok\/\">Why Amazon&#8217;s spot instances won&#8217;t commoditize the cloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/why-2010-still-wont-be-the-year-of-mobile-advertising\/\">And no, 2010 still won&#8217;t be the year of mobile advertising<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/88253\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/88253\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/88253\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/88253\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/88253\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/88253\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/88253\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/88253\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/88253\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/88253\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=88253&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/ads.gigaom.com\/proxy.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fads.gigaom.com%2Fopenx%2Fwww%2Fdelivery%2Fck.php%3Foaparams%3D2__bannerid%3D200__zoneid%3D1__cb%3D68efa3ff99__oadest%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.gridrouter.com%252F' ><img src='http:\/\/ads.gigaom.com\/openx\/www\/images\/98389ae0cfe0804245b15175438316ce.jpg' width='300' height='250' alt='GridRouter by SmartSynch: The communications hub for the Smart Grid' title='GridRouter by SmartSynch: The communications hub for the Smart Grid' border='0' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id='beacon_68efa3ff99' style='position: absolute; 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View HTC became a smartphone hero. View O2\/Telef\u00f3nica announced Jajah acquisition for $207 million. View Blippy launched. View App analytics firms Flurry and Pinch Media merged. View Google released its Open manifesto. View Incubators made a return. View Twitter might actually be profitable. 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