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FT Tech Blogs

• Deal of the day: China’s Shanda buys up S Korean game developer September 9, 2010
  By Virginia Garcia Martinez of mergermarket Dragon Next has become one of China’s favourite online games of 2010: when it was released for testing in July, hundreds of thousands of people played it simultaneously. Now the company that developed Dragon Next - South Korea’s Eyedentity - has been acquired by China’s second-biggest online gaming publisher, Shand […]
  Maryam Nabi
• Online business in China: high stakes, short tempers September 9, 2010
  From the FT’s beyondbrics blog It doesn’t take much to irritate a Chinese internet titan. Alibaba Group, the country’s largest e-commerce company, had already fallen out with its biggest shareholder, Yahoo, over a Google-government hacking dispute. (Yahoo backed Google, Alibaba said be quiet.) Now Alibaba has reacted angrily to a report that Yahoo’s Hong Kon […]
  Maryam Nabi
• D-Ram: glut, shortage, and now glut again September 9, 2010
  By Jane Rickards in Taipei Samsung Electronics foresees an oversupply of dynamic random access memory (D-Ram) chips in the fourth quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year if the PC market continues to slow, marking the latest twist in a tortuous saga of gluts and shortages. Even for an industry renowned for its boom […]
  Robin Kwong
• Linguee is the right word for good translations September 8, 2010
  Google has a neat trick in its Chrome browser of spotting web pages displayed in foreign languages and offering to translate them, then doing so instantly and in reasonable fashion. But Linguee, launched on Wednesday in five languages, does a better job when it comes to grasping context and finding just the right word for the […]
  Chris Nuttall
• How Google Instant could change SEO and SEM September 8, 2010
  If Google Instant is everything that Google hopes it will be, the entire industry of search engine optimisers and marketers has some work to do. The new search feature, launched at a slickly staged event at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art (Google is finally learning some of the Apple magic), predicts a user’s intent and […]
  Richard Waters
• Seedcamp and the rise of Europe’s super angels September 8, 2010
  This summer has seen some interesting blog posts from the venture capital community on the “rise of the super angels” - seasoned entrepreneurs who’ve cashed out and are reinvesting in the next generation. Seedcamp, the European investor and events programme, is a big part of that story. Next week will see the fourth Seedcamp week in […]
  Tim Bradshaw
• Wikipedia founder: how Africa will transform the web September 7, 2010
  From the FT’s beyondbrics blog […]
  Maryam Nabi
• Look how far we have come September 6, 2010
  After eight years writing his Personal Technology column in the FT’s Business Life section, Paul Taylor has signed off with a look back at the dramatic changes over that time. Paul is launching a new section on FT.com later this month called The Connected Business, including reviews on technology for the workplace. After the jump, his […]
  FT
• Samsung urges Galaxy Tab bundling September 6, 2010
  Samsung is urging operators to bundle sales of its new Galaxy tablet with cell phones and their data plans in order to cut the cost to consumers. Speaking on the sidelines of the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Lee Don Joo, head of global sales and marketing for Samsung’s mobile products, said it would be […]
  Chris Nuttall
• Size matters with Android iPad tablet rivals September 2, 2010
  Rivals to the iPad will come in similar shapes but all screen sizes, judging by the launches here in Berlin on Thursday of tablets from Samsung and Toshiba (pictured). The competition is also packing its cheaper devices with features the iPad may not have for some time, such as cameras with video calling. Tim Bradshaw gave […]
  Chris Nuttall