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World Bank Winners: Sustainability in the App World
In a follow-up to our initial coverage of the World Bank’s Open Data Initiative, challenging developers to submit apps addressing one of its 8 MDGs, we now reveal the results of this international contest. There were 107 final submissions that became eligible for final voting today, including 20 desktop, 8 mobile and around 77 web ...
Motricity Acquires Adenyo, Expands Mobile Ads Cloud Portfolio
Motricity, a mobile payments integration solutions provider, has signed an agreement to acquire mobile marketing vendor Adenyo for around $100 million. The acquisition will expand Motricity’s offerings portfolio with addition of analytics and metrics. This in turn will enable the delivery of real-time results, meaning faster processes around improved mobile ads. “These new capabilities will ...
Fujitso Partners with Tensilica, Expands Cloud Reach
Today electronics giant Fujitso announced it’s expanding its reach further into the cloud, and partnering up with IP cores and DPUs maker Tensilica. The two companies signed a multi-year corporate license to Tensilica’s audio, baseband DSP (digital signal processor) and dataplane processor units (DPUs). “In the development of our next-generation high-performance mobile terminals, we realized ...
Google Seeks Developers, Android Overthrows Symbian
Google has begun recruiting dozens of Android app developers to boost its open-source mobile platform, which is seeing a significant amount of growth lately. Google product management director Benjamin Ling is leading the recruiting efforts, aimed to significantly increase Google’s in-house developed apps portfolio which now stands at about 20. “Besides the potential of making ...
Egypt Internet Shutdown: Official Figures
Shortly after anti-government protests began in Cairo, Egypt had experienced an unprecedented Internet service cutoff. Only suggestions have been raised regarding the reason behind this still ongoing situation, as well as its implications in context to a potential U.S “Internet kill switch.” Seeing as this is SiliconANGLE, we’re looking at the story from the cloud ...
Google Launches Algorithm to Discourage Scrapers
Google employee Matt Cutts announced in his earlier this week the search giant is considering a new, on-page spam detection technique to reduce spam content – meaning copied or scraped – from appearing in Google Search results. Today however, Cutts released an update in his blog and confirmed the news that this algorithm was already ...
zferral Acquires Cloudomatic, Partners with Chargify
Referral monetization and distribution cloud company zferral announced in a blog post it has acquired Cloudomatic, including its partnership software application dubbed ‘Cloudomatic(flow)’. The acquisition also merges the two companies’ customer base, increasing zferral existing one of several thousands by a few hundreds more. “We are excited to announce we acquired simple partnership software Cloudomatic(flow) ...
Facebook Finally Updates Android with Deals for Places
Facebook released Facebook for Android 1.5.1, and along with a few bug fixes, the updated app introduces U.S users local deal support, including free offers, savings, and special deals. This feature is reportedly only available in the U.S for now, and requires users to check in to Facebook Places. “To see if you have any ...
Mobile Games Round Up: Zynga Expands, Kongregate Arcade Returns
It’s been a big week for mobile, especially in the gaming arena. Mobile games are some of the top-grossing, most popular apps on the market, and their influence is growing stronger by the day. Here’s a brief look at what’s been going on in the mobile industry lately, spanning new games, new platforms and new ...
Windows Phone 7 on the Rise, so are Microsoft Earnings
Microsoft recently revealed some important numbers regarding its mobile operating system, cluing us in to its progress since launching late last year. The company sold more than 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q4 2010, which may be an indicator of steady recuperating in its mobile market share. Microsoft’s mobile share dropped from 7.9% ...