The large online retailer Amazon.com has recently announced its latest adventure—the acquisition of Quidsi Inc., the parent company of Diapers.com and Soap.com. Diapers.com specializes on selling baby care products online, while Soap.com is an online store of daily essentials. This move is a lucid manifestation of Amazon.com’s intent to capture the consumer market and intensify ...

It’s official. Auction and online selling giant, Amazon has already hailed up the red flag and is currently battling Diapers.com within the pricing arena.  Diapers.com is under the large roof of the mother company—Quidsi. There have been reports that noted Amazon’s several attempts to buy out Diapers.com. The latter refuses to sell for various reasons. ...

The lack of iPhone units in its roster is the chief driver of T-Mobile USA’s poor financial performance for the 3rd quarter of 2010. Deutsche Telekom AG CEO Rene Obermann is convinced that without iPhone, T-Mobile USA will continue to struggle. “Consumers like T-Mobile but they also want to have the iPhone,” Obermann said during ...

The European Union has decided to revise the 1995 Web Privacy Rules in lieu of rampant personal information leakages happening in most internet sites. The European Commission met on Thursday and announced its quest to guard the Internet users’ rights. The New York Times reports, “The protection of personal data is a fundamental right. To ...

Facebook has launched  another first in social networking industry—Places and Deals. The fusion of Facebook’s two outstanding segments will allow users to see deals from their favorite store located near their place. This will pioneer in the United States and deals are expected to roll out in a few days. With Places and Deals, local ...

It seems that social network’s favorite child has gone through different heights as Facebook proves itself to be a good bellwether for elections. Twenty four hours after the US midterm elections, Facebook has demonstrated a huge potential in being a great venue for election results prediction. Basing from partial tallies and outcome of the electoral ...

It seems that competition will be stiffer in the Android tablet market and will continue until 2011, as electronics giant LG plans to release a new and updated version of its tablets. The company is set to release not one, but two tablets in the early part of next year. Reports have already mentioned and ...

Spreading like wildfire are rumors about Microsoft’s plans to acquire Kondoaet (Conduit). This purchase of another Israeli company will mark its 10th acquisitions of businesses in the country. The most popular software organization in the world has already bought at least 9 businesses in the Promise Land including: Somix, a software company JVP, which was ...

It may be as directly involved in the elections processes, but social media has evolved to be a solid information carrier of almost all election happenings in and out of the state. With a huge audience and faster information dissemination, social media will play an enormous role in 3 important election scenarios: (1) to hail ...

Technology and business solutions key player, Dell has just announced its latest adventure, and it wasn’t Rackspace: the acquisition of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration leader Boomi. This buy-out was triggered by Dell’s intention to reap the full value of cloud computing. Boomi is the sole platform in the industry that diminishes the cost and complication ...