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New CEO for Digicel in Haiti (AP)

AP - Haiti's biggest employer has named a new chief executive to run Digicel, the mobile phone company announced Wednesday.

Raditaz Android app offers a creative way to discover new music (Appolicious)

Appolicious - Looking for a new musical app experience? Tired of listening to the same song over and over? Check out the free, radical and super-fun musical Raditaz app for Android. It’s similar to Pandora, as in you can start by picking an artist to create a station. This allows you to listen to music by that artist and similar artists. Only Raditaz says it has 15 times the number of songs as Pandora! And, the Raditaz app doesn’t have any ads. Wow, it beats Pandora in my book right there alone. So how is it free? Raditaz employees working in a basement, or so it says in the ad copy.

5 Things Tech-Savvy Business Travelers Need (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - With close to half of business travelers now from Generation X and Generation Y, gadgets geared toward the tech-savvy business traveler now cater to nearly every tech niche. Whether your travel-tech packing list includes an entire mobile office or just a mobile phone, here are five tech gadgets every business traveler needs.

Symantec profit, forecast in line with estimates (Reuters)

Reuters - Symantec Corp, the top maker of computer security software, reported a higher quarterly profit and issued an outlook in line with Wall Street estimates.

Analyst predicts Google’s mobile ad revenue to hit $5.8 billion this year (Appolicious)

Appolicious - Google’s Android mobile operating system continues to sweep the world and has a huge number of devices using it, but the way that Google really makes money off the OS and the apps sold for it is through advertising. And one analyst expects that the amount of money Google stands to bring in by targeting ads at Android users to hit $5.8 billion this year.

Symantec tells customers to disable pcAnywhere software (Reuters)

Reuters - Symantec Corp took the rare step of advising customers to stop using one of its products, saying its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs is at increased risk of getting hacked after blueprints of that software were stolen.

ThreatMetrix: Mobile buying less risky than desktop this holiday season (Digital Trends)

Digital Trends - Cybercrime prevention solution provider ThreatMetrix has released their assessment of the risk levels associated with online commerce transactions during the 2011 holiday season, and finds on average mobile transactions were less risky overall than transactions conducted from desktop (or notebook) computers. From businesses’ point of view, this means that mobile transactions might be less chancy than traditional online sales; for consumers, it might mean that businesses increasingly try to shift online purchasing to mobile platforms as a way to reduce their risk.

Guidewire jumps 38 percent in stock market debut (AP)

AP - Guidewire Software quickly found a following in its stock market debut Wednesday.

Review: Software extras ease do-it-yourself taxes (AP)

Customer looks at a copy of TurboTax on sale at Costco in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. The software available for the 2012 tax season has been both beefed up and made easier to use. This will make the annual chore quicker, and lessen the chances of the missing big deductions and important tax credits. Close to 40 million taxpayers prepared their own returns online last year. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - It's never been easier to prepare your own tax return.


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