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BSkyB inks £49m deal with Virgin Media Business to overhaul its network infrastructure across the UK -

Sky broadband customers should see their Internet connection get a whole lot faster in the next few years, thanks to a new £49 million ($73.
TheNextWeb  3 hours ago:

Alibaba ruffles Beijing government feathers as its Taobao online mall launches hospital booking service -

Alibaba-owned Taobao, China’s most influential online retail site, is widely known as a place where one can buy everything and anything under the sun.
TheNextWeb  4 hours ago:

Softbank grants US government the right to approve a director for Sprint, should takeover bid succeed -

Amid security concerns over the cross-border takeover of Sprint Nextel by Softbank, the Tokyo-based company has agreed to give the U.
TheNextWeb  4 hours ago:

Amazon debuts 7-inch and 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD tablets in over 170 countries, will ship from June 13 -

Amazon has just announced that its Kindle Fire HD tablet – both the 7” and 8.9” HD display-sporting versions – are now available to customers in over 170 countries and.
TheNextWeb  4 hours ago:

Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company Square expands beyond North America, landing in Japan first -

Red hot payments startup Square is invading Asia after it announced that its service has launched in Japan, which becomes its third market worldwide in addition to the US and Canada.
TheNextWeb  5 hours ago:

Chinese city Shenzhen puts a stop to taxi-finding smartphone apps, citing lack of standards -

Finding a taxi via a smartphone app may be highly convenient, but authorities in the Chinese city of Shenzhen are cracking down on such services, which it accuses of lacking.
TheNextWeb  6 hours ago:

Despite PC slump, Lenovo reports record full-year sales of $34 billion, looks to mobile for growth -

As the global PC market continues to spiral downwards, Lenovo, the world’s second-largest PC maker after HP, has reported solid earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter and full-year ended March.
TheNextWeb  7 hours ago:

Korea-only KakaoHome outpaces Facebook Home with 500,000 downloads in its first 9 days -

KakaoHome, the Facebook Home-style Android application from Korea’s top messaging company Kakao, is seeing impressive uptake after passing 500,000 downloads nine days after its launch last week.
TheNextWeb  8 hours ago:

Google reveals Raytown, Missouri as the tenth Kansas City-area expansion in line to get Fiber -

Google on Wednesday announced that Raytown, Missouri will receive the company’s Fiber Internet service.
TheNextWeb  8 hours ago:

LinkedIn revamps navigation as part of efforts to simplify mobile and desktop experience -

Following changes to its homepage design, profile layout, and recently a mobile app revamp, LinkedIn is rolling out another new change to its service today – a new navigation bar.