Facebook And Google Improves Social Search In The Same Week
The battle for the best social search is on. The social giant Facebook and Search giant Google have both made significant steps to make search on both sites better and...
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Google Launches An Online Payment System-Google One Pass
In a statement at the Berlin’s Humboldt University on Wednesday, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said the company has launched a new online payment system- Google One Pass, that lets publishers...
Apple Announces Subscriptions On The App Store
Apple today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital...
45 Percent Of Active Mobile Users Are Ready For Mobile Payment Solution
New research by Accenture shows that nearly half (45 percent) of the most active mobile device users would welcome the opportunity to pay for goods and services using their mobile...
Boingo To Extend Unlimited Wi-Fi Across Europe, The Middle East And Africa
Wi-Fi hotspot network operator Boingo is aiming to extend its Wi-Fi hotspots throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa with its new Boingo Europe Plus plan that offers access to...
Google Launches “Google Weddings”
Google has created wedding-specific templates in Google Sites, Google Docs and Picnik, and gathered tips and tricks for using these and other Google products at google.com/weddings To make this possible...
Sony Ericsson To Release Xperia Play Android Phone With A PlayStation Controller
Sony Ericsson has announced on their Facebook page the release of the Xperia Play , a Google Android phone with a PlayStation controller. The SE Play will run Android 2.3...
AOL To Acquire The Huffington Post For $315 million
AOL Inc. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Huffington Post, the influential and rapidly growing news, analysis, and lifestyle website founded in 2005,...
News Corp. Agrees To Talk About A Possible Sale Of Myspace.com
News Corp., which paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005 is considering a possible sale of the social network to an interested party. MocoSpace, a Boston-based social network for mobile...
Tencent, China’s Biggest Internet Company To Acquire US Gaming Startup
Riot Games, Inc., a leading independent developer and publisher of premium online video games, has announced that Tencent Holdings Limited, a leading integrated Internet services provider in China, has acquired...
Cisco To Acquire Video-Streaming Startup Inlet For $95 Million
Cisco Systems has announced plans to acquire privately held Inlet Technologies, a provider of adaptive-bit-rate video processing platforms, for $95 million. The acquisition is aimed at supporting Cisco’s videoscape Initiative....
Top Startup Acquisitions In Month Of January 2011
Adobe Buys Demdex. Adobe announced a big acquisition ; buying behavioral data bank DemDex. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the release. Demdex captures behavioral data on behalf...
Do You Prefer To Be On Facebook Or Twitter?
Social networking is changing the way we interact with each other at an amzing rate. Venture capitalists have poured money into these services just to make sure they get your...
The X Grip iPad Case: New Universal iPad Mounting Case Launched
Two Portland based photographers have created a universal iPad mounting case. The X Grip is an Apple iPad case designed around a standard ¼” threaded mount which can be used...
Salesforce.com And Softbank Invest In Seesmic- Social Media Monitoring App
Seesmic, the maker of applications that monitor social networks across mobile devices, has announced a $4 million investment from salesforce.com, inc. and a Softbank Group company managed by Softbank Holdings...
Google Updates Google Docs: What To Expect
Google said on Monday that it has updated its Google Docs portion of Google Apps to improve the way that documents are displayed and previewed. The updates will be rolled...
AOL Europe Acquires Video Distribution Network-goviral For $96.7M
AOL Europe, part of AOL Inc. , today announced that it has acquired the video distribution network goviral. goviral distribute branded video content across the Internet for some of the...
Facebook Places Deals: You Can Now Check Into Shops On Your Mobile In Europe
Facebook has launched Places Deals in the UK and across Europe. Users in UK can now check into shops on their mobile phone to get discounts. The launch is across...
39 Of The 43 Startups In The Most Recent Y Combinator Class Accept $150k Offer From A Russian Investor
David Lee, a managing partner at SV Angel who’s also managing the Start Fund stated in an interviews that “As of 3 pm today we’ve received 39 confirmed signature pages,...
Now You Can Get Access To Facebook Deals With The New Facebook For Android
The Facebook application designed for Android phones now includes Deals, the service offering limited-time discounts that can target users based on their physical location. ” Everybody loves a deal. Now...