Valve on Tuesday announced a new version of Steam currently in public beta form. The opt-in beta is available now to all Steam users, new and old. “In the last 12 months, Steam has grown 200 percent,” Valve said.
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With the rise of popular streaming services such as Hulu, many would probably speculate that BitTorrent usage would be on the decline, but according to the folks over at TorrentFreak , nothing could be further from the truth. Nearly doubling its 28 million a year user base to 52 million, uTorrent usage is continuing to rise with no end in sight. “In addition to this, at the start of this year we saw almost 5 million monthly users of BitTorrent Mainline,” said Simon Morris, BitTorrents VP of Product Management. “In November 2009 we saw over 10 million”. “We see no evidence whatever that BitTorrent clients are any less popular”
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Inquiring minds might not really care, but developers for smartphones certainly do. And what they care about is what mobile OS platforms are most prominent among users, so they can better direct their limited resources to a market with potential. Unfortunately for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile , it looks to be one of those markets where potential is dwindling, with figures showing it slipping into third place behind Research in Motion’s (RIM) Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone. The numbers reported are from ComScore, which conducts monthly user surveys of U.S. mobile subscribers, age 13 and over
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LinkedIn is highly likely to go public at some point in the future, according to co-founder Reid Hoffman, but not in the near future. Hoffman, talking to Reuters, confirmed the general belief that LinkedIn was a candidate for an initial public offering, or IPO. The social network, which allows professionals to form links and host their accomplishment and details online, has 53 million members, and is amongst a group that includes the like of Facebook that is expected to go public when the economy picks up “Probably at some point a balance will occur when that’s the right thing. That will not occur in the near term,” Hoffman said at a London event to celebrate the network’s reaching 3 million users in Britain. Financially sound The last time that LinkedIn went through financing in 2008 it raised huge amounts of money, and it has not splashed that cash yet
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