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Daily Deals + LBS: Massive Revenue for Groupon
Groupon’s revenues in 2010 surged to $760 million last year, compared to only $760 million in 2010. The Wall Street Journal reports that offshore users accounted for over a third of the daily deals giant’s revenues, and covered CEO Andrew Mason’s expectations for 2011. “The email, sent by Groupon Chief Executive Andrew Mason to staffers ...
OpenFeint and Adknowledge Open Free Game Dev Platform
Today mobile social games platform OpenFeint and advertising network Adknowledge announced the OFX 2.0, a scalable freemium platform for iOS developers. Available starting March 7, the platform has quite a bit to offer, including pay-per-install app distribution. This memorization model enables developers to increase their app’s downloads by purchasing inventory in other freemium games, and ...
Bing Likes Search Results, and Hopes You Do Too
Microsoft’s updated Bing’s Facebook “Like” integration “to annotate any of the URLs returned by our algorithmic search results to all users in the US .” The integration, or Liked Results update is aiming to make Bing search results more effectively social, further solidifying the Microsoft-Facebook partnership. “Using Liked Results, the Bed & Breakfast that my friends have ...
Apple Day Heightens their Journey to the Cloud
Fast Company named yesterday Apple Day, and for a very good reason. After releasing FaceTime for Mac in the Mac App Store and going ahead with 24-bit audio quality on iTunes earlier this week, Apple Day just kicked off – and in full force. It’s a big step up for Apple and its growing cloud ...
Google Launches Recipe View, Fresh out of the Oven
Google’s getting more niche with its search perks every day. Today brings Recipe View, an ongoing effort to contextualize its big data search and retain users who would otherwise turn to other sites. Google’s latest addition to the left-hand Google Search panel lets users to search for recipes without ever leaving the search engine. Initially, only U.S ...
SAP Looking to Reduce $1.3BN in Damages Paid to Oracle
The Wall Street Journal reports that SAP, who was sentenced by a jury to pay Oracle $1.3 billion for copyright infringement last November, is trying to drastically reduce this amount. The software maker filed motions to do some damage control after now- defunct SAP unit, TomorrowNow Inc, infringed 120 Oracle copyrights and took a $1.3BN ...
Box.net Raises Another $48M for Cloud Collaboration
Adding one more link to the cloud growth chain, business-focused cloud file storage and collaboration service Box.net raised $48 million in a Series D funding round. The sum comes in addition to $30 million Box.net already raised in venture capital, and will probably be used to further expand the company’s supported marketplace. “…co-founder and CEO Aaron ...
Comics Take on Android as Digital Publishing, Personal Cloud Grows Verticals
Comics were popular long before the dawn of the Kindle and iPad. But the literary genre is gaining new grounds, and market share, through just about every consumer device, including Android smartphones and tablets. Digital comics distributor Graphic.ly announced a brand new Android app fresh out of beta. Marking Graphic.ly’s first introduction to Android, the app ...
AppSense Gets $70M from Goldman Sachs, Builds Out Virtualization Solutions
UK-based virtualization solutions provider AppSense announced it has received a $70 million investment from Goldman Sachs. The sum will be used to accelerate AppSense’s growth and expand its share of the cloud virtualization market, which is expected to hit the $2 billion mark in a few years. Goldman Sachs managing director Pete Perrone will join ...
WordPress Ignores The Times’ Death Sentence, Launches WordPress 3.1
WordPress 3.1 is now available. Codenamed ‘Reinhardt’ after jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, the latest version of WP brings with it quite a few notable updates, including increased backend speed. This translates into a new admin bar featuring shortcuts to the most used pages and a redesigned linking mechanism. WordPress 3.1 also come with some new ...