Apr. 27: Google-LabPixies; PirateBay.org; Twitter-DMCA; RLSLOG; Boy Genius Repor

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Mountain View, Calif. - Google has acquired LabPixies, a developer of casual games and applications for the iGoogle home page service, as well as mobile platforms. [more..]
Cambridge, Mass. - Business Marketing Services (BMSV), a Cambridge, Mass.-based company, announced on Tuesday that it will acquire the domain name thepiratebay.org, and trademarks of The Pirate Bay from Sweden-based Global Gaming Factory (GGF) in exchange for a $10 million promissory note. [more..]
San Francisco - Citing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice, Twitter has removed a user's tweet that contained links to download songs from an album that leaked to file-sharing services before its official release, Mashable reports.
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New York - A website that published news about copyrighted media leaked onto file-sharing networks has been taken offline by its German Web host following a complaint from major record label Universal Music Group, TorrentFreak reported.
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San Mateo, Calif. - According to data from mobile ad network AdMob, mobile Web traffic generated by users of mobile devices running Google's Android operating system was greater than traffic from iPhone users in March in the U.S., TechCrunch reported. [more..]
Los Angeles - Mail.com Media Corp., the Jay Penske-backed firm that publishes Deadline.com, Movieline.com and a number of other sites, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Boy Genius Report, a blog covering mobile phones and other gadgets. [more..]
Stockholm, Sweden - Streaming music service Spotify on Tuesday rolled out a feature upgrade that includes a number of social features, as well as the ability to merge one's own music library with their Spotify playlists.
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Washington - Nearly half a year after its former parent company went bankrupt, local gay and lesbian weekly newspaper The Washington Blade said that it will return to newsstands on Friday. [more..]
Palo Alto, Calif. - Zong, a provider of mobile payment services used by online gaming and social networking sites, announced on Tuesday the closing of a $15 million round of funding, led by Matrix Partners. [more..]
Seattle - Ground Truth, a provider of mobile audience measurement services, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $7 million in its second round of funding. [more..]

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Briefly Noted

Mountain View, Calif. - Google has added an "Earth" view to its Google Maps service, providing users with the ability to browse integrated 3D images from its Google Earth service. [more..]
San Francisco - Video search engine Blinkx has launched a new in-house targeted advertising platform, TechCrunch reports. [more..]
Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo Japan on Tuesday announced a partnership with mobile social network DeNA, to create a PC-based social game platform called Yahoo Mobage. [more..]
San Jose, Calif. - SoundHound, the provider of a music recognition service, on Tuesday launched a new, free version of its mobile application for Apple's iPhone. [more..]
New York - Indaba Music, an online music creation community, on Tuesday announced the official release of Mantis, its Web-based Digital Audio Workstation application that lets users record, edit and mix audio for free. [more..]

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