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• retail With Smartphones, Consumers Sharper Than Stores by Sarah Mahoney

  Last year, 59% agreed that consumers are typically better connected to product information than their in-store associates. Shoppers second that, with the feeling strongest among Gen Y (46%), followed by Gen X (38%) and roughly a third of Baby Boomers. ...Read the whole story

• Google Cleans House: Sells Motorola Division, Launches Music Match, Embeds Indoor Street View by Laurie Sullivan

  Purging the old and locking in the new, Google this week sold the Motorola Home's TV business to Arris Group for $2.35 billion in a cash-and-stock deal. The deal will close in Q2 2013, pending regulatory approvals. ...Read the whole story

• Mobile Ad Experts Downplay eBay Ad Snub by Mark Walsh

  The report this week that eBay -- considered a leader in the mobile space -- will stop running ads in its applications doesn't come as a ringing endorsement for mobile advertising. ...Read the whole story

• Taco Bell Touts 'Griller,' Taco-Pack In Multiplatform Campaigns by Mark Walsh

  Taco Bell on Thursday kicked off ambitious integrated campaigns for a pair of new products -- its new "Loaded Griller" and a 12-taco variety pack -- featuring custom executions across online and mobile platforms such as BuzzFeed, Pandora and PayPal. ...Read the whole story

• Flipboard Launches Android Tablet App by Mark Walsh

  Android tablet owners longing for their own Flipboard app got their wish today, as the company has released a version of the popular social magazine reader designed for them. ...Read the whole story

Wanted: Sterling Terms-Of-Service Writer, To Help Defuse Instagram-Gate by Catharine P. Taylor

BREAKING: Instagram's No. 1 user Kim Kardashian considering dropping photo service. Following the week we've had, I can hardly think of a headline that's more needlessly overblown than this one. Or is my reaction like this because I'm not one of Kim Kardashian's 5.7 million Instagram followers? Or because my life is, as documented in this column, so dull that the best picture I shared anywhere all week was a photo of a rainbow -- arching over the big water tower in Yonkers that has "yonkersgov.com" painted on it? ...More