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A marketing research company, Reputation Leaders conducted a survey for PayPal on customers' habits on the Internet during holiday shopping. Online survey was conducted in November and included 4,524 respondents from nine countries (Australia, France, Italy, Canada, Germany, Russia, Singapore, the UK and the US), ranging from 16 up to 64 year of life.

The American branch of Sony decided to sell the Gracenote service, which stores metadata about music, to media conglomerate Tribune for $170 million. Gracenote's vast database of music is used by many services for streaming content, mobile applications and multimedia systems in cars. The most famous among them are Spotify and Apple's services.

China Mobile, the Chinese telecom operator which is owned by the state, recently launched its very own 4G mobile network throughout China.

The new smartphone from the company Gresso is named Radical R1 and comes in a limited edition of 999 pieces. It has dimensions of 138x69x12 mm, total weight of 219 grams and casing as the buttons are made of titanium, which is normally used in the construction of aircraft, hand polished and assembled. To make this phone even more special on the back of the case they engraved serial number of each copy.