By WUG Team
Irish mega-rock band U2 is apparently immune to brand loyalty. Bono and his band mates have announced Research in Motion – and NOT their years-long sponsor Apple – will be their principal partner for their upcoming 360 Tour. As you know RIM’s BlackBerry is Apple’s iPhone’s fiercest competitor in the emerging smartphone market. U2 manager Paul McGuinness had this to say about the band’s new relationship with RIM: “This tour announcement marks the first stage of a relationship and shared vision between RIM and U2 that we expect will lead to new and innovative ways to enhance the mobile music experience on the BlackBerry platform for U2 fans.” U2’s tour will kick off in Barcelona in June and visit 14 cities in Europe before landing in Chicago in September for the North American leg. And while we doubt Bono is monitoring his Web Server from the tour, YOU can with WhatsUp Gold Mobile UI integration with and RIM’s Blackberry…
Here is some interesting data; according to comScore’s latest results, Japan prefers Yahoo! to Google. Yahoo sites hold a 51% share of all searches conducted in Japan, while Google sizes up with a considerable weaker 38% share. Mashable.com took a look at both the Google Japan and Yahoo Japan sites and reports that they are very little if at all different from their other versions, concluding that that Japan simply prefers Yahoo’s makeup to Google’s. Now for those of you who like to keep up-to-date with the world markets this may not come as a shock. After all you can’t give an iPhone away in Japan whereas Apple’s smartphone became the number one selling phone in the U.S. in November of last year.
But before you start re-thinking your 3G purchase and search engine preference put an ear to the blogosphere’s rumor mill and listen carefully; both Google’s and Apple’s name are being bandied about as the Dow Jones’ new golden children. Now that General Motors and Citigroup are trading around $1 (Citigroup took the title of the first stock to be traded on the index as penny stock this week) they don’t exactly meet the requirements to maintain their ranks among the 30 most influential companies.
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