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A mobile device (also known as a handheld device, handheld computer or simply handheld) is a small, hand-held computing device, typically having a display screen with touch input and/or a miniature keyboard and weighting less than .
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(YHOO) said Friday it has decided to discontinue its Livestand digital news reading application, which had been unveiled to much fanfare following a delay in November.Yahoo said in a post on a company blog that it intends to "consolidate" a number of products this year and will pivot to a "mobile-products-first development model."Among the first decisions made as part of this plan is to discontinue Livestand, which was designed for Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad tablet, Yahoo said."We have learned a lot from Livestand and are actively applying those insights toward the development of future products that are better aligned with Yahoo's holistic mobile strategy," the company said.Livestand's development had been overseen by former Yahoo Chief Product Officer Blake Irving, who officially left the company late last month.Irving's departure was announced by Yahoo shortly after it announced it would lay off about 2,000 employees--a move that significantly affected his department.It too...
FBN’s Diane Macedo breaks down the stories moving the markets around the world.
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The consumer Internet analyst at Morgan Stanley , the lead underwriter for last week's Facebook Inc. IPO, trimmed his outlook for the social-networking firm's revenu...
Finally, a rally on Wall Street. Investors jumped back into stocks Monday, even if just momentarily; the rally sent the Dow up 1%, the Nasdaq up 2.5% for its best da...
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