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As Frank pointed out this morning, the war between Android and iPhone makes for good blog content. So continuing with that thought, we have data from Millennial Media’s Mobile Mix 2011 Year in Review. Here’s the OS comparison chart from 2010 vs 2011. Look at Android just soaking up nearly half the pie.

LivingSocial members consumed 28,742 hot dogs in Q3 while burgers bit the big one with a 27% decline in sales. That bit of trivia is part of LivingSocial’s Q3 Purchasing Trends report which also comes with a huge, but nifty infographic. We’ve got half of it here, but you’ll need to click through for the full experience.

This past week saw rumors of a stratospheric Groupon valuation ($25 billion) as well the New York Times’ great paywall experiment being announced. While we wrote a fair amount covering the Internet marketing news landscape there were a few items that did get the attention you think they may have deserved. Either that or we ignored them because they weren’t interesting but now they are interesting because we need them. So many options. Facebook Used to Thwart a Robbery. Here’s the video

Kantar Media calls it the “feel good headline” and it’s likely that everyone but the newspapers would agree. According to their new report, ad expenditures across the board rose 6.5% in 2010 for a total of $131.1 billion. The downside is that not everyone benefited from the growth. Have a look at the chart: