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Updates on: T-Mobile, Facebook, and Google

T-Mobile has invested €3.5 million in Arantech, a Dublin software firm that was this weekend named company of the year by the Irish Software Association (ISA). — Sunday Business Post

Don’t compare Facebook’s new ad system to anything you’ve seen on Google, television, or any other advertising medium you can think of. Compare it instead to Amazon.com (Charts, Fortune 500) or eBay (Charts, Fortune 500). That’s because, while advertising as we know it today may very well be a good profit engine for the social networking company, its new Facebook Ads program is also about e-commerce — that is, selling. — CNN

Google’s mobile plans, announced earlier this week, failed to generate the kind of consumer buzz and media frenzy that the iPhone launch did. Unlike Apple’s sleek, all-touchscreen device, Google’s Android isn’t a phone — it’s a mobile platform. — CNN