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Flurry: China Is Fastest Growing Market For iOS & Android Devices, Chile Comes In 2nd
techcrunch.com
It’s no secret that mobile analytics firm Flurry gets a kick out of tracking apps and mobile device adoption trends, and today it released some new data on iOS and Android device adoption around the globe. The United States still leads in the number of active iOS and Android devices...
How 300,000 people move home, animation
www.guardian.co.uk
Norwegian developer Even Westvang has taken public data about how his compatriots move around their country and leave home and visualised it in this beautiful animationSimon Rogers...
Test Drive Apple’s New Messages App Before Mountain Lion Launches
techcrunch.com
Members of the general public will have to wait a few more months before they can play with Mountain Lion proper, but one of the update’s newest features is ready for a taste of the limelight. Apple has just made their revamped Messages app available for everyone to download, but...
Groupon Fights For Its Life As Daily Deals Collapse (GRPN)
www.businessinsider.com
CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Groupon and its compatriots in the much-hyped daily deals business were supposed to change the very nature of small-business advertising. Instead, it is the daily deal vendors that are racing to change as evidence mounts that their business model is fundamentally flawed. Groupon last week reported...
Product testers go on social media "missions" - a new frontier in content marketing
gigaom.com
Do you like to receive free pens and soy sauce in the mail? Well, you might be in luck — provided you’re willing to take to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social media sites to describe your experience. In a recent twist on content and social media marketing, companies like...
Collapsing Nokia may have had Apple-like hardware in development in the 90s
9to5mac.com
..but horrific corporate management has it in a place where it may be forced into a patent firesale. Interesting article on Nokia in the WSJ last night. It starts with: More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone, the Nokia team showed a phone with a color...
Medium Hires Former ICM Literary Agent, Kate Lee, As Its Director Of Content
techcrunch.com
We told you a bit about Ev Williams and his vision for the future of publishing with his new company, Medium, the other day. I mentioned in that piece that the company was hiring a variety of interesting positions. Today, Williams announced a new addition, a Director of Content. The...
Artificial intelligence project builds A Puzzling Present
arstechnica.com
Back in March, Ars wrote about PhD student Michael Cook and his artificial intelligence machine called Angelina. Angelina was special because she was creating games from scratch with little help from her human counterparts. By dividing the concept of a computer game up into three defined “species,” or sub-tasks—maps,...
MSI Slider S20 convertible Windows 8 ultrabook hands-on
www.theverge.com
Acer and Asus may have introduced Windows 8 machines in every form factor under the sun yesterday at Computex Taipei, and here's another from compatriots MSI — the Slider S20, a "convertible ultrabook" with a hardware keyboard that slides out from under the screen. The sliding mechanism works well,...
Music streaming service on the way from HTC and Beats?
www.theverge.com
HTC has been pushing its music credentials of late, releasing audio-focused phones such as the Rezound and including Beats Audio technology in its Sense UI for Android 4.0. It's not a stretch to imagine the company starting a cloud-based music initiative like compatriots Acer, and according to GigaOm that's...
Final Frontier Design's third-generation spacesuit reaches Kickstarter goal
www.theverge.com
Final Frontier Design (FFD) has reached its $20,000 Kickstarter goal which will allow it to make the FFD third-generation spacesuit a reality. The suit itself builds on the teams' generation two design and will be cheaper and lighter than NASA's intra-vehicular (or in-vehicle) spacesuits. The idea is that, with...
Jon maddog Hall Comes Out In Honor Of Alan Turing’s Birthday
techcrunch.com
A dozen years ago, when I went from techno-dilettante to technophile, one of my living heroes was Jon maddog Hall, the 61-year-old writer for Linux Magazine and an early proponent for free and open source software. Today Jon came out as homosexual in honor of Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. His...
Hulu's 2012: Revenue up 65% to $695M, subscribers double to 3M, 28% more advertisers
thenextweb.com
Hulu had a banging 2012, and they’ve rounded it up in a blog post today. We combed through the numbers and there are some eyebrow-raising ones here. Revenue for the streaming site was up 65% in 2012, and it doubled its subscribers from April to December, ending up at 3M...
Got a smartphone? You must be planning to vote for Obama
venturebeat.com
Maybe you didn’t see Romney’s iAd. Or perhaps you’re just not impressed with Republican candidate’s perfectly coiffed hair. Either way, if you own a smartphone, you and your compatriots are edging up to twice as likely to support Obama’s re-election campaign. Source: Google+Mitt Romney At least, that’s what mobile marketing...
Copyright troll smacked down again after fleeing to Florida
arstechnica.com
John Steele is one of the nation's most prolific copyright trolls. Last year, an Illinois federal judge wrote that Steele had "abused the litigation system in more than one way." Apparently undeterred by the thumping he received in Illinois federal courts, Steele has joined a new firm and shifted...
Huawei Ascend W1 render revealed, WP8 in a cyan chassis
www.engadget.com
Nokia's shown off its Windows Phone 8 wares, so has HTC, and we knew Huawei was bringing a WP8 handset to the table sometime soon, too. That day has finally arrived, as an official looking render of the Ascend W1 has popped up on Twitter. If the picture's to...
How the art of 'Angry Birds Star Wars' blended two pop-culture juggernauts
www.theverge.com
Like many of my compatriots at The Verge, I felt a certain amount of trepidation towards Angry Birds Star Wars. I’m far from a dedicated fan of either franchise, but without context, the images of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker as humanoid birds seemed somewhere between tacky and downright...
StatCounter dings Microsoft for endorsing Net Application’s market share data
thenextweb.com
Microsoft is quite fond of tooting its own horn when it comes to the performance of Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7, and the decline (at last) of Internet Explorer 6. However, it has a favorite place to get the data that it promotes: Net Applications. Now, we like Net...
This is the Modem World: Nerds in rabbit holes
www.engadget.com
Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. I have many interests: mountain biking, martial arts, video games, running, reading, cooking and horror movies. For each one of these, there is an internet rabbit hole so deep,...
Get Ready For Some Fireworks: Activist Investor Carl Icahn Sets His Sights On Netflix, Taking A 10% Stake
techcrunch.com
Carl Icahn could be on the warpath again, this time with Netflix as his target. Through a number of investment vehicles, Icahn has taken what amounts to a 9.98 percent stake in the subscription video company. Icahn, of course, is best known as an activist shareholder who advocates for change...
Get Ready For Some Fireworks: Activist Investor Carl Icahn Sets His Sights On Netflix, Taking A 10% Stake
The Last Big Independent Social Marketer Syncapse Pimps Itself For Acquisition With Analytics Suite
techcrunch.com
Syncapse wants to get bought. All it’s well funded competitors — Buddy Media, Vitrue, Involver, Wildfire — already have. So today it releases a new analytics suite, making it a more appealing turn-key social marketing solution to acquirers by rounding out its Faceb00k ads and Pages offering. The company’s PR...
The wrong argument: Enterprise v. consumer startups
pandodaily.com
I don’t know about you, but the recent schadenfraude about the pending failure of early-stage consumer startups puzzles me. Only a small number of the new technology companies created in a given year produce the vast bulk of returns. So why is anyone surprised many of the seed stage consumer...
The Atlantic's Quartz is here at last but will it pay?
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The world of elite online business journalism is starting to feel crowded. Publications like the Wall Street Journal, the FT and the Economist are all touting top-shelf digital experiences and now comes the Atlantic’s long awaited offering, Quartz. Launched today at Qz.com, the new publication is optimized for reading on...
NFL drafts Google+ to power fantasy football Hangouts
venturebeat.com
Google and the NFL have teamed up to make fantasy football more real for pigskin fanatics everywhere. Wednesday, in advance of the 2012 football season, the companies announced that they’re adding Google+ hangouts to fantasy football pages. The team-up will give people a one-click way to video conference with...
TechCrunch France Integrates With TechCrunch.com
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Today, TechCrunch has some big news to share with you : TechCrunch France will finally become part of TechCrunch.com. Launched in 2006 by Michael Arrington and Ouriel Ohayon, TechCrunch France was one of the first tech blogs to take off in France and its launch marked one of the first...
Redfin touts $100 million in real estate savings, plans to double Seattle office space
www.geekwire.com
It’s hard to believe, but Seattle-based Redfin is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. And what has the online real estate brokerage done in that time frame? Well, for one, the company announced today that it has saved customers more than $100 million in real estate fees since it was...
UK Lulzsec members charged over DDoS attacks: two plead guilty, two claim innocence
www.theverge.com
Two Lulzsec members from the UK, Ryan Cleary, 20, and Jake Davis, 19, have pleaded guilty to charges of using denial of service attacks to temporarily disable the websites of Sony, Nintendo, and 20th Century Fox, among others. Both are pleading not guilty to accusations of posting private data...
A look back: 36 years of Apple products
news.cnet.com
Our compatriots at CBSNews.com take a look at the evolution of Apple products over the last three and a half decades. [Read more]...
Accused LulzSec member pleads guilty to hacking Sony
arstechnica.com
Accused LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger pled guilty today in a federal court in Los Angeles, California, to felony charges associated with the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment that occurred in mid-2011. Kretsinger went by the moniker "Recursion" and testified that he took part in a SQL injection attack on...
Micron to acquire Apple supplier Elpida in memory shakeup
www.electronista.com
US-based Micron Technology has entered into an agreement to acquire bankrupt Japanese DRAM maker Elpida for $2.5 billion, according to Digitimes. Elpida is remains a key component supplier for Apples new iPad and iPhone 4S, and will propel Micron to the number 2 position in memory chip fabrication behind only...
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