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If you are going to launch a new location app, creating an anti-Foursquare is probably not a bad idea. About a week ago, a Qualcomm-incubated project called Neer quietly launched on the Android market, and has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since then. [...]

Here’s an interesting set of charts from Nielsen analyzing the most popular apps on each smartphone platform.

As you can see, app usage is pretty uniform across the board. Smartphone users love Facebook, Maps, Pandora and the Weather Channel.

There’s only one really glaring exception across the platforms. Apple’s iPod and iTunes are huge on the iPhone. On [...]

There’s only 2 million iPads in the market, but the iPad’s share of the global browser market is already bigger than Android, BlackBerry, and the iPod touch, according to this chart cited in a recent Morgan Stanley research report.

Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty says iPad usage is closer to a PC than a smartphone, which is [...]

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Google’s stock has taken a beating this year, falling more than 20% since January.

There’s a bunch of small reasons for Google’s stock to be dinged, including the failure of the Nexus One, pulling out of China, and the weaker Euro posing some problems.

The big picture for Google is that it hasn’t found a second leg [...]

I was looking over the Chart of the Day site since I haven’t been there in a while and found a few I thought were interesting.

Mobile Search Is Exploding, But Ad Revenue Is Tiny
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We’ve got some good news and some bad news for Google, courtesy of RBC Capital Markets.

The good news: Mobile search is exploding [...]