Craig Palli is vice president of Client Services & Business Development at  Fiksu  ( @fiksu ), which helps brands boost iOS and Android mobile app ranking and secure large volumes of loyal users. You can find him on Twitter  @cpalli . Thriving with Google Play Apple’s planned phase-out of the UDID has introduced considerable angst in the app marketing community

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How Android Developers Can Thrive With Google Play

It’s been just over nine months since Google announced their intentions to acquire hardware manufacturer Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, and now it seems that the final pieces of the deal have fallen into place.

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China Finally OKs Google’s Acquisition Of Motorola Mobility

My set ritual before going to bed each night is as follows — turn out the lights, plug in my iPhone, take off my glasses and attempt vainly to nod off. Step two in that process can be a bit of a crapshoot in the dark, but the folks at Scrap Pile Labs have recently kicked off a new Kickstarter campaign for a product called the CordLite that just may come in handy. As the name sort of implies, the CordLite is a dock connector cable for iDevices that, well, lights up thanks to a pair of forward-facing LEDs

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Kickstarter: Meet CordLite, The Light-Up iPhone Cable For Night Owls

Facebook has just acquired mobile commerce startup Karma , which makes apps for gifting friends and family.

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Facebook’s Acquisition of Karma Brings Mobile Commerce, App Monetization Prowess

How timely. After launching a year ago at Disrupt NYC 2011 , Tracks is today releasing one of its biggest updates to date. The service is much like Color, but without the creepy factor as any and all members of a specific photo-sharing group must be invited

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Tracks Releases Most Ambitious Update Yet: Custom Camera, New Filters, And Real-Time Video

As if anyone needed any more proof that the Samsung’s Galaxy S III would sell like (slightly more expensive) hotcakes, a report from the Korea Economic Daily reveals that the long-awaited handset racked up over 9 million pre-orders from mobile carriers across the globe. To put that number in a bit of perspective, the tremendously popular Galaxy S II was officially unveiled at MWC in February 2011, and managed to rack up 3 million global pre-orders by the end of April. Its successor, on the other hand, managed to garner triple the number of pre-orders in the three weeks since it was revealed in London

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Samsung’s Galaxy S III Reportedly Racks Up Over 9 Million Pre-Orders Worldwide

The Facebook IPO is expected to usher in a day of massive trading volumes on the markets, and some believe that might translate to a lift for some tech stocks . But one that could really use some help has just been served another course of bad press: Nokia is apparently burning through its cash reserves — fast. The company, for years the biggest mobile phone maker in the world, has fallen on very tough times, as competition from companies like Samsung, Apple and a barrage of inexpensive device makers, have translated into declines in sales, market share and profitability.

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Analysts: Nokia On Track To Burn Through Its Whole $6B Cash Pile In Next 2 Years

Facebook’s $38 share price would make its deal to buy Instagram worth nearly $1.2 billion, up from the roughly $1 billion price the company announced in April . That’s a nice little bump, but the deal hasn’t gone through given regulatory reviews

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Facebook’s $38 Share Price Makes Instagram Deal Worth Nearly $1.2 Billion

Verizon CFO Fran Shammo ruffled a few feathers yesterday when he mentioned at an investor conference that every one of their customers would be on one of the carrier’s new data share plans . In an effort to clarify his meaning, Verizon sent a statement to a handful of news outlets today that shines a bit more light on how they plan to make this situation work. First thing’s first — Verizon still intends to make those pesky (for them, anyway) unlimited data plans a thing of the past, they’ll just be doing it more gradually than originally anticipated

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Verizon: If You Want To Keep Your Unlimited Data, Pay Full Price For Your Next Smartphone

Everyme , the Y Combinator-backed mobile startup that helps users create groups for private sharing , is launching a whole bunch of new stuff today.

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Everyme Adds Android, A Web App, and Instagram Integration