MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) – With its new "Home" on Android gadgets, Facebook aims to put its social network at the center of people's mobile experiences.

If users choose to download Facebook's Home software starting on April 12, the social network will become the hub of their Android smartphones. A phone from HTC that comes pre-loaded with Home will also be available starting that day, with AT&T Inc. as the carrier.

2. Apple's Softer Side Emerges Under CEO Cook - Monday, December 10, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) – "Those jobs aren't coming back."

That's what Steve Jobs reportedly told President Obama when asked at a dinner in early 2011 whether Apple would consider moving some of its manufacturing from China to the United States.

3. What Apple's Billion-Dollar Victory Means for Consumers - Tuesday, August 28, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) – Apple's $1 billion court victory over Samsung poses a lot of questions for consumers. Will Samsung phones still be available for sale? Will they be more expensive? Will owners of existing phones need to worry?

4. Google Cutting 4,000 jobs at Motorola Unit - Tuesday, August 14, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) – Google Inc. is making its largest round of layoffs ever as it announced plans to cut about 4,000 jobs at Motorola Mobility just three months after buying the struggling cellphone pioneer.

5. IPhone Appeal Dims as Samsung Shines - Tuesday, July 31, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) – The latest iPhone looks much the same as the first iPhone, which came out more than five years ago. That hasn't been a problem for Apple – until, now.

The pace of iPhone sales has slowed, Apple revealed last week. Part of the problem is that the competition has found a formula that works: thinner phones with big screens that make the iPhone look small and chubby.

6. Google Completes Motorola Deal, Heralding New Era - Wednesday, May 23, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet's most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile computing.

7. Report: Verizon is Best Carrier In Memphis - Wednesday, April 25, 2012

In the pitched battle among the big carriers for mobile phone customers in the Memphis area, mobile testing firm RootMetrics is calling this round for Verizon.

In a report released Tuesday, April 24, Bellevue, Wash.-based RootMetrics described how it conducted thousands of calls, measured data usage and sent text messages throughout Memphis to determine which carrier had the fastest text service, the fastest and most reliable data network and which carrier had the fewest dropped and blocked calls.

8. Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet - Thursday, September 29, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday showed off the Kindle Fire, a $199 tablet computer, challenging Apple's iPad by extending its Kindle brand into the world of full-color, multipurpose devices.

9. Club Eclipse Nightclub Closed As Nuisance - Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The owner of Oakhaven nightspot Club Eclipse is due in Shelby County Environmental Court Wednesday, Aug. 24, after the business at 4532 Getwell Road was closed as a nuisance Friday night, Aug. 19, by the Shelby County District Attorney General’s office.

10. Google's Patent Play: $12.5B for Motorola Mobility - Tuesday, August 16, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion deal to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. is aimed at giving the Internet search leader more legal firepower as it battles Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to gain the upper hand in the increasingly important mobile computing market.

11. Country Nightclub Two-Steps Into Town - Tuesday, April 19, 2011

A new nightclub is saddling up at Sycamore View and Interstate 40. Country and dance nightclub Electric Cowboy has signed a 14,435-square-foot lease in Shelby Crossing Shopping Center, 6160 Macon Road.

12. Country Nightclub Two-Steps Into Town - Monday, April 18, 2011

A new nightclub is saddling up at Sycamore View and Interstate 40.

Country and dance nightclub Electric Cowboy has signed a 14,435-square-foot lease in Shelby Crossing Shopping Center, 6160 Macon Road.

13. Three Cops Indicted In Nightclub Payoff Case - Monday, March 08, 2010

Three Memphis police officers arrested on federal bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges have been indicted by a federal grand jury.

Lt. Timothy Green and patrol officers Christopher Crawford and Michael Young are now charged in a 53-count indictment with theft or bribery, extortion and conspiracy.

14. UPDATE: Three Cops Indicted In Nightclub Payoff Case - Friday, March 05, 2010

Three Memphis police officers arrested on federal bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges have been indicted by a federal grand jury.

Lt. Timothy Green and patrol officers Christopher Crawford and Michael Young are now charged in a 53-count indictment with theft or bribery, extortion and conspiracy.

15. Apartments Could Fill Former Mongo Nightclub Space - Friday, December 11, 2009

Downtown officials soon might be able to scratch a cluster of properties on Cotton Row off the area’s list of Big Empties.

Joe Sinkovich wants to turn the three buildings at 56, 60 and 62 Front St. that once housed the Prince Mongo’s Planet nightclub into space for 23 apartments and 12,000 square feet of street-level commercial space. That commercial usage would include a roughly 5,000-square-foot pizza restaurant on the ground floor of 60 South Front that seats about 150 people, according to plans Sinkovich has filed with the Center City Development Corp.

16. Pure Passion Strip Club Closed In Latest Nightclub Undercover Probe - Tuesday, December 09, 2008

A four month long undercover drug investigation at an Airport area strip club surfaced tonight when Pure Passion, 1849 East Brooks Road, was closed as a nuisance under state law.

17. Flying Saucer RecognizedAs Top Nightclub for '07 - Wednesday, January 03, 2007
     Memphis' Flying Saucer has been selected as one of the top nighclubs and bars for 2007, according to the editors of Nightclub & Bar Magazine.
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