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Apple Works Through the Holidays, Including Black Friday
Apple was never too eager to revamp its efforts towards Black Friday, the biggest shopping day in the U.S. where dozens of retailers take advantage of the yearly inventory purge. But lately they have been boosting their efforts to increase holiday sales, and meet demand. According to Taiwanese Digitimes magazine, Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn is ...
Facebook Home Seeks Residents, Staking Claim on Google Territory
It seems Facebook has one goal in mind, as it’s now heading towards getting users to make it their default homepage. The social network is taking the ‘portal approach.’ Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft did the same a decade ago, and it’s the same tactic Google is after, with a heady consumer-driven campaign. “Facebook’s push to ...
HP Shows Handsome Rise : Q4 Earnings Report
Today Hewlett-Packard released its fourth quarter earnings reports showing a handsome rise of $2.5 billion, or an 8% increase from last year’s Q4, bringing in a total of $33.3 billion in net revenue. HP’s 2010 net revenue was $126.0 billion, as this figure had risen by 10% compared to last year. “Fourth quarter revenue was ...
HP demonstrating Enyo for Palm’s webOS
HP showcased its upcoming, tablet-friendly JavaScript framework Enyo for mobile operating system webOS, released by Palm, which it has acquired earlier this April. Aimed to replace the already existing Mojo for 2011, Enyo carries improvements in three areas including performance, ease to use and the development of apps and UIs which can run on different ...
Valley Ventures Volley for Investments
According to a study released today and also covered here, venture capital investment in Silicon Valley is in a downturn last quarter due to high-value investments in already established and equally bright stars including social networking giants. “… while liquidity, usually in the form of mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings, has been improving, ...
Box.net Unveiling Update to Android App
Cloud content management solutions provider Box.net is unveiling an update to its Android app which carries fixes to stability issues, faster and more smooth app performance and of course, two new features named ‘Create’ and ‘Upload’ connecting supporting devices directly to Box. From their announcement: “With these updates, the Box app now interacts seamlessly with ...
New Zynga Game and Expansion with Yahoo
Social game developer Zynga has big plans to extend its reach, as that includes a new game called CityVille and a deal with Yahoo for game expansion. The deal was established some time ago but was temporarily downsized, in the wake of Zynga’s success with Facebook. “Users can now play and share games such as ...
Comcast’s New Executive Structure for NBC
Following months of speculation, Comcast has finally announced the new executive structure for NBC Universal, making noteworthy changes on both the content and distributions sections of its digital operations, as all of the newly appointed execs now have the title of ‘chairman’. “Matt Bond…becomes executive vice president of content distribution at NBCU… Lauren Zalaznick will ...
HP Launching New $442 Desktop, Takes on Dell in India
Hewlett-Packard will begin to offer the HP DreamScreen touch-screen and video chat supporting desktop later this month, in 700 outlets located in 60 cities within the Indian market. The DreamScreen will be sold for 19,999 Indian rupees, equivalent to around $442. “Hewlett-Packard Co. said it will offer a new desktop personal-computer in India, after the ...
Local Shopping Sites Get Aggressive as Holiday Shopping Sets In
Real-time online shopping website and coupon service Milo has announced it’s launching a new coupon feature. This new addition offers users exclusive discounts from retailer partners and additional ones from coupon aggregator Spotzot, redeemable at over 28,000 local stores and counting. “New coupons are introduced daily and, alongside Milo.com’s simplified interface and improved search speed, ...
