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Venture Capital Firm Sequoia Offers a Hand to Tumblr
In this still-developing story, Tumblr—mini-blogging platform and all around interesting place to read—has received an extremely competitive sum from Sequoia Capital, according to SFGate. The NYC-based blogging startup’s founder David Karp and president John Maloney went out to the Valley looking for money last month, and it sounds like they came back winners. “I will ...
Google Strikes Back: Oracle Redacted or Deleted from Presented Evidence
As the drama of the Oracle vs Google lawsuit continues, which Google has already called “legally deficient” in October, the most recent round has Google claiming that Oracle isn’t playing fair. The patent lawsuit came out over patent violations in Google’s Android platform—but the code presented doesn’t seem to be up to spec. According to ...
Mac OS X Joins OpenJDK, Gets Flash Fixed
This has been a big week for Mac OS X. Oracle and Apple have come to an agreement about how to implement Java SE 7. This news comes out after things between Oracle and Apple appeared to have chilled since October, but now they’re back, raring for more. In an article at The Register, Kelly ...
Clash of the Titans: Facebook to Unveil E-mail System to Rival Google
The web is resonating with speculation today as to what’s going to be unveiled by Facebook at an event Monday. Invites went out to various news outlets today, stylized to look like an express mail letter, including large messaging iconography. The prevailing thought is that the announced “Project Titan” could become the release of personal ...
YouTube’s Continues to Dominate at 35 Hours of Video Uploaded a Minute
The metric for recording our lives and storing it digitally is still being decided on, but YouTube would certainly be high on that chart with this stat: over 34 hours of video are being uploaded every minute. According to GigaOM, this means the video sharing site and Google are looking for better ways to view ...
Motorola, Microsoft Trading Blows With U.S. Patent Lawsuits
Motorola Mobility Inc., a subsidiary of Motorola, said it sued Microsoft on Wednesday over patent infringement, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. This makes up almost the third round of lawsuit filings between the two industry giants as Microsoft filed earlier last month over Android mobiles—mostly a royalties scuffle there. Now, Motorola ...
Twitter Gets Pinged with iTunes Music
A lot of people out there are guilty of typing the lyrics of whatever they’re listening to into their Twitter stream—almost like they want to sing along to their thousands of followers—other services even allow them to post the current song playing on their desktop streaming media player. Now Ping, the Apple iTunes’s music social ...
Intel AppUp Developer Program Opens MeeGo Portal
What happens when you merge two already powerful mobile-based software development suites into one OS and SDK? You get MeeGo. Intel Moblin and Nokia Maemo announced their unification at Mobile World Congress in February 2009 and recently announced the 1.1 core OS and SDK release of MeeGo in late October. To celebrate this launch, Intel ...
Unidentified Flying Missile-like Object Seen off California Coast
A streak across the sky visible rising out of the Pacific has sparked a great deal of discussion and concern as nobody seems to be taking credit for it—from NASA to the U.S. military. Two videos have surfaced of the “launch” but neither of much quality to actually see much more than a blur and ...
Google Calls Facebook to the Mat as Contact Portability Smackdown Continues
“Trap my contacts now,” reads the Google contacts export form when viewed during Facebook registration. This stems from a battle between Facebook and Google over data portability—or particularly, that Facebook just doesn’t like to let go of anything it takes in (even when the user wants them to.) Yesterday, SiliconANGLE covered how Facebook found a ...