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Quarterly Wrap-ups

NewNet Market Overview, Q2 2010

Summary:

The second quarter of 2010 saw social networking companies wrestle with the next phase of their development as well as the fallout from the success they’ve had thus far. Meanwhile, the advance of location-based services, one of the hottest topics in the sector, seemed to pause tenuously in this quarter.

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Executive Summary
  3. Critics Charge NewNet Not Open Enough
    1. Apple's Garden Walls Tremble
    2. Facebook’s Global Like
  4. Twitter’s Developer Problem
    1. Twitter Turns on the Revenue
  5. Privacy Concerns Provoke the Feds
  6. Online Payment Systems Get More Competition
  7. Music’s Future Gets Cloudy
  8. Geolocation More Than a Game
  9. M&A
  10. Key Takeaways
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