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Weekend Update 11.07.09—Big Trouble in Little China Edition [Digital Daily]

Source: All Things Digital

Nov 07, 2009

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Big news often comes in small changes, and Boom Town was all over the little moves that meant big stories this week. Kara covered a massive redesign of the MSN (MSFT) homepage that follows the old car racing mantra turned web design ethos. Add power and lightness. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when boom Town covered the end of the Skype ruckus. All is forgiven, and the all it took was a sizable stake in the company and seats on the board. Kara rounded things out by running a quick post about a spankin’ new feature from AllThingsD. The weekly “Almost Famous” feature will cover an interesting start up through the eyes of its chief geek. Kara’s all about the geek love.

Digital Daily isn’t usually big into the bean-counting, but this week the numbers were where it was at. The first sales figures came back from Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone launch in China, and the numbers weren’t good. As of the post, only 5,000 iPhones had been (legitimately) purchased. If the Chinese numbers were a picture of modesty, the App Store’s numbers were parading through Time Square in

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