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Malls track shoppers' cell phones on Black Friday

Annalyn Censky CNN 11/24/2011

Through this signage at Promenade Temecula, the mall is notifying shoppers that their phones may be tracked as they move throughout the premises.

Attention holiday shoppers: your cell phone may be tracked this year. Starting on Black Friday and running through New Year's Day, two U.S. malls -- Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va. -- will track guests' movements by monitoring the signals from their cell phones.

Apple Wins Suit Against Two NYC Stores Selling Counterfeit Apple Products Erica Thinesen ITProPortal 09/16/2011	The heart and soul of New York's startup scene CNN 09/16/2011
Apple has reportedly settled with the owners of two fake Apple Stores in New York City. One store agreed to surrender all fake Apple goods in their possession.	The New York startup scene got a shakeup Friday as word trickled out that Andy Weissman is leaving Betaworks, the influential "realtime Web" investment fund he co-founded, for a partnership spot at the city's premier venture capital firm, Union Square Ventures.
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Skype Buys GroupMe, a New York-based Mobile Messaging Start-Up JENNA WORTHAM The New York Times 08/21/2011	Apple Cracks Down on Alleged Knockoff Sales in New York City Sarah Jacobsson Purewal PCWorld 08/19/2011
Skype, the Internet calling service, said on Sunday that it was buying GroupMe, a year-old start-up in New York that offers a group-messaging service for cellphones.	Apple has a growing identity problem. Just as it has been battling fake Apple stores in China, closer to home it has been quietly suing electronic retailers in New York City for allegedly selling Apple knockoff merchandise. According court documents unearthed by the Reuters news agency, Apple is taking a stand against two Queens, New York stores, Apple Story and Fun Zone, accusing both of trademark infringements.
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Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion to Gain Wireless Patents Brian Womack and Zachary Tracer Bloomberg.com 08/15/2011	News Corp. on verge of Myspace sale: WSJ Loic Venance Yahoo! News 06/28/2011
Google Inc. (GOOG), the biggest maker of smartphone software, agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in its largest acquisition, gaining mobile patents and expanding in the hardware business.	News Corp. is on the verge of selling Myspace and a deal could include laying off more than half of the troubled social network's staff, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
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Google to test tap-to-pay system in San Francisco and New York Peter Svensson The Boston Globe 05/26/2011	Microsoft Co-Founder Hits Out at Gates NICK WINGFIELD And ROBERT A. GUTH The Wall Street Journal 03/29/2011
Google Inc. has launched its bid to dominate a world in which the smartphone replaces the wallet as the container for credit cards, coupons, and receipts.	Bill Gates schemed to take shares in Microsoft Corp. from his co-founder during the early days of the software company following his partner's treatment for cancer, according to a new memoir by the billionaire co-founder, Paul Allen.
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