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It looks like Google is at it again: attempting to deliver deeper and better visualization of statistics and data for developers. They’ve moved in this direction before with Google Analytics for the web, but now Android developers are getting more benefits from …
How Will You Spend St. Patrick’s Day? Ask a Social Network
Éirinn go Brách! It’s about that time of year: time for everyone in the US to guzzle green beer, pin shamrocks to their lapels, wear green (or get pinched), and quite possibly get very drunk. Lab42, an online market research and survey …
AudioDraft: Bringing Crowdsourcing to Audio Production
What do music, contests, and crowds have to do with one another? They’re all integral components of the business model that AudioDraft uses to connect the work of audio professionals with interested consumers. The concept is simple: you have a project that …
Google Circle’s Rumors and Eventual Dismissal Stirs Thoughts about Privacy
Over the weekend a rumor cropped up that Google would be releasing a new social-networking tool, Google Circles, at SXSW—but with the dawn today we quickly discovered that there is no Google Circles and probably will not be ever. The idea seems …
Stephen Elop of Nokia Receives $6 million Signing Bonus
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Nokia Corp. has filed paperwork Friday stating that they’re going to pay Stephen Elop a more than $6 million signing bonus, Mr. Elop, recruited from Microsoft Corp. to revive the ailing handset maker’s fortunes, received …
Sony Sets Kazuo Hirai as Possible CEO Successor to Howard Stringer
Currently bearing the distinction of being the President of Sony Computer Entertainment—Sony’s videogame hardware arm that brought us the PlayStation—Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai (平井 一夫) may be looking forward to stranger pastures as he’s been tapped as the likely successor of Sony’s Chief …
Clash of the Titans: The Cloud Climbing Mount Olympus
The cloud has been changing the very face of computer technology and it’s largely been innovated by the newcomers with the old, faithful behemoths of the industry moving slowly but inexorably in their wake. In an article published at Bloomberg Buisnessweek, “The …
Kinect Lands Spot in the Pages of the Guinness Book of World Records
Microsoft’s peripheral for the Xbox 360 has been dubbed the Fastest-Selling Consumer Electronics Device by the Guinness Book of World Records. After their explosively popular debut that left pretty much every other similar peripheral in the dust, this could be considered the …
Fusion-io Preps for IPO; Though Not Quite Ripe, Facebook Already a Data-Center Customer
As big-time innovators in solid-state storage as it combines with distributed storage models, Fusion-io has been pushing the cloud-envelope on multiple fronts. Since their emergence into the scene as a start-up in 2006, they’ve inducted the Woz as their chief scientist and …
Stack Overflow Injects $12 Million, Mutates Into Stack Exchange
The extremely popular questions-and-answers site, Stack Overflow, has just announced that they’ve finished a Series B funding round netting $6 million. This comes after an initial round of $6 million during May of last year. Commentary on this round of funding comes …