mocoNews Quick Hits: 7.02.09

»  Dada cutting staff in U.S. a day after announcing an acquisition. It is merging Dad.net with Dada Entertainment. [Billboard]

»  Shock and horror in Twittersphere: followers can be bought. [BBC]

»  More interesting mobile patents from Apple: haptic tactile feedback. Finally coming to iPhone soon? [MacRumors]

»  AT&T (NYSE: T) sent 65K messages per second when MJ died. Plus their best iPhone sale day ever. [MacDailyNews]

»  Blackberry browser gaining share, but Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and opera have to work a lot harder. [ATD]

»  Akamai’s getting serious about mobile video, and has launched an iPhone version of its adaptive rate streaming tech. [Gigaom]

»  Iran lifts block on SMS texting, the first time since elections. [BBC News]

»  RealNetworks’ new player a week after: 1.5 million video downloaded. But wil it go beyond a nice-to-have feature? [RNBlog]

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