Yahoo is getting super-serious about the role, tablets will play in its future content strategy. The company finally launched its Flipboard-like news reader, Livestand, this week. Also it launched IntoNow, an impressive social TV app for the iPad that marries the check-in functionality of GetGlue with the real-time content identification of Shazam. Livestand pulls in…
This week, AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced their plans to seal off extra online space for ads on each other’s websites. It’s a strategy to slow down Google and Facebook’s ever growing momentum in ads display. This somehow bizarre alliance is designed to sell some of the less-prized ad space that Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc…
It’s been a long time we heard about the concept of “cashless society”, which means more and more usage of digital and mobile payment modes than cash transactions. Interestingly, there is a new prediction from PayPal, which confirms its expected arrival and forecasts that there would be no wallets required in UK by 2016. The…
Facebook users are experiencing another phishing scam sent via email messages, to threaten them to delete their Facebook accounts within 24 hours, if they do not submit their account details. The phishing email messages are accusing Facebook users for violating policy regulations, by annoying or insulting other Facebook users. The email then asks the victim…
It has not been a while since Tablets debuted in the consumer electronics market, but its production, sales and now mainly usage have increased significantly in an year or two. Apparently, the major shift towards tablet came after Apple launched its first iPad on January 10, 2010. The iPad was an amazing thing to experience…
And the acquisition ‘wars’ continue with various giants and internet brands taking over various technologies and companies. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo – you name it and each of these companies has a list of acquisitions on their chest. Twitter just added another; Whisper Systems, a mobile security start-up company co-founded last year by security experts…
This Black Friday, Apple broke all the previous sales records at its retail stores! Sales were at a record high of four times than ordinary sales figures. The news was broken by 9to5 Mac, which further explained that the previous budget of Apple was culminated by a high number of sales at 7pm of the…
The popular music streaming service, Spotify, faced a short downtime yesterday, which restricted some users to get access to their favorite music streaming site. It faced an outage due to some server issues which left some users in US,UK and Europe unable to use the service. The outage, which began at 20:00 GMT, didn’t really…
Tomorrow November 28, 2011, will be the ‘official’ date of Cyber Monday this year. With the clocks ticking down the last couple of hrs; shoppers are feverishly searching the web for the best sales and deals that will become available for the day. For those of us who are not aware, Cyber Monday was coined…
Nokia Siemens Network(NSN) is planning to fire almost 17000 employees worldwide, that becomes nearly 23 percent of its total workforce, in order to cut its costs by € 1 Billion (one billion Euros). The finnish based – Nokia – and German Multinational company – Siemens – have been working together as a Joint Venture since…
