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"Androidland" Store Touches Down In Melbourne. Google, Austrialia telecom company Telstra, and handset makers have teamed up to create "Androidland," an Android-themed fun park in a section of the Telstra store in Melbourne. Android products from makers HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and of course Samsung line the displays, and the store includes a "spaceship" flight simulator in which visitors can navigate Google Earth. --NS
Zynga Aims For $1 Billion IPO. Facebook's top game maker has set its IPO share price at $8.5 to $10, and will sell 14.3 percent of the total company (100 million shares), the New York Times reports. At the healthy end of that range, Zynga could make $1 billion at the first offering, putting the total value of the company at $7 billion. --NS
Groupon Investigated For Flouting Ad Regulations. Groupon, which went public in early November, is being investigated for 11 formal and 37 informal breaches of advertising code set by the U.K. Advertising Standards Authority between January and November this year. The Office of Fair trade will conduct the investigation. --NS
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Point To Apple In Australia Tablet Tiff With Samsung. Samsung's worldwide patent spat with Apple on phones and tablets has swung in Apple's favor, at least when it comes to the off-and-on ban of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia. The ban was due to lift late on Friday, but will stay in place for another week, giving the court time to hear one last appeal from Apple to permanently stop Galaxy Tab sales in the county. --NS
EU Bans Export Of Surveillance Tech Into Syria. The European Union has banned companies from building and exporting surveillance technology for mobile phones and the web into Syria, Bloomberg reports. Recently, Italian company Area SpA quit a deal with the Syrian government, under which it would have allowed the president to scan all emails that passed through the country. --NS
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YouTube Launches Website Overhaul. Google's video website now highlights YouTube Channels and subscriptions, and has loosened up to let users easily customize their channel subscriptions and sharing options, to and from Google+ and Facebook. A new version of the Channels feature is now open for testing, and YouTube is inviting its users to opt in and take it for a spin. --NS
Google Taking On Amazon With Low-cost Shipping. Google is in talks with retailers to offer a low-cost overnight shipping and delivery system for online purchases, the Wall Street Journal has heard. Google and Amazon are already facing off on cloud music and video streaming with Google Music and YouTube matching Amazon Prime's music storage and video lending services, and online retail could become another front for skirmishes between the two companies. --NS
Chrome Overtakes Mozilla To Become Browser No. 2. StatCounter, an web monitoring firm, has recorded that Chrome downloads and usage across the world overtook Mozilla's Firefox in terms of market share in November, a full month ahead of predictions. Internet Explorer for Windows remains at top spot in the web browser race.
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