News Headlines - 07 February 2011

▽How HuffPo became a star _ and why AOL wants it - The Associated Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ij4lB2LyqeN7lzDph6T8gWiYmNXg?docId=0966cf9d14f7440e91d37dbac575fd41
Perhaps no online property was lusted after by media moguls like the one Arianna Huffington founded six years ago. Its traffic rivals The New York Times. Its infrastructure is virtually zero-cost. Its social media strategy is practically perfect. Oh, and it turned its first profit last year on $30 million in revenue. HuffPo expects to triple revenue by 2012.

▽South Sudan celebrates as independence vote confirmed - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12387905
As the result was confirmed, that 98.83% of the voters had backed independence, those at the front leapt up, waving flags and cheering.

▽Despite retreats, Egypt regime's core stands firm - The Associated Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hj2kceiOOu9_IKYDCFPPemPEbbTA?docId=097dfae2ae5a42519d8953b0dd0a029b
Egypt's regime has offered a string of concessions in the face of the strongest threat yet to its rule, but so far nothing that uproots its entrenched monopoly on power.

▽Last.fm calls time on free mobile radio service - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12381887
Users of online music site Last.fm will have to pay for its mobile phone service starting from next week.
Until now, the site has provided its personalised radio for free for mobiles, making money by placing adverts between songs instead.

▽SonyEricsson teases Xperia Play - Fudzilla
http://www.fudzilla.com/mobiles/item/21779-sonyericsson-teases-xperia-play
SonyEricsson has come up with a pretty funny teaser for the new Xperia Play, its eagerly awaited PSP smartphone.