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Intel Shares Up, Optimism in its Mobile Future Rises
Intel’s determined to make the best of the mobile future, despite the fact that it’s not the most relevant chip maker in the space. The company’s CEO Paul Otellini rallied his troops yesterday, telling them the effort will be a “marathon, not a sprint.” “The big question on many people’s minds is how will we ...
Opera Mobile for Android to Heat Up Browser Wars
The mobile browser wars are getting intense, with Opera’s rlease of Opera Mobile for Android coming soon. The company announced its plans to launch the mobile browser within the month at a conference this morning, noting it will be available for all Android devices. Two new features are included in the news app, one to ...
Skype Gets Facebook Friends and News Feeds, Testing Group Video Calls
Skype released an updated version of its desktop app for Windows computers, which includes the anticipated Facebook integration. There’s a new tab for importing Facebook news feeds and contacts into your Skype, so you can call your Facebook friends from the application. For Skype, it’s an important move that will encourage a great deal more ...
Your Facebook Likes are Now Bing Search Results
Microsoft is getting more involved with the social sector, powering instant personalization with Bing. Microsoft’s Bing has been powering Facebook search for a little while now, but it was primarily focused around web results. Relating that back to the social graph is really what this partnership is all about, and it appears to be an ...
Apple Shares Hit $300, Mega Milestone for Consumer Electronics Market
Apple shares are at an all time high, rising above $300 for the first time. It’s a major milstone for Apple, and confirmation of its influenc in consumer electronics within our current market. Opening at $300.20 this morning, Apple stock recently traded at $300.50, up 0.6% from Tuesday, and 43% for the year. Despite the ...
xAD Gets Another $4M to Grow Local Mobile Ads
Local mobile ad company xAD has received an expanded capital round of funding, taking in another $4 million in this B1 round. Heading up the new funds is Emergence Capital Partners, which has had investments in other ad networks like Doubleclick. The funding will be used to expand its technology platform, grow its management team ...
Mobile Browsers vs. Apps: Which Will Prevail for Holiday Shopping?
The question of whether or not mobile apps are here to stay is highly steeped in the future of the mobile market, with lots of attention being given to their growing economy, ability to interface directly with consumers, and demand for cloud-based services that trickle all the way down to the end user. But the ...
Qualcomm Subsidiary Adds to the Flock, Acquires iSkoot Technologies
Qualcomm Innovation Center has acquired iSkoot Technologies Inc., looking to up its integrated services options towards optimizing network usage. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. We’ve got some serious subsidiary action going on here, as the Qualcomm Innovation center is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and iSkoot Technologies is a newly-formed corporation that ...
Marissa Mayer Leaving Google Search Products to Head Google’s Future in Localization
Google executive Marissa Mayer is leaving her position as VP of search products, but she’s not leaving the company. The first female engineer at Google, joining the company in 1999, will now oversee location and local services. The news comes by way of an email, reports Bloomberg, citing, “Marissa has made an amazing contribution on ...
Hadoop is a “Big part of Twitter’s ecosystem”
Cloudera is really aiming for the enterprise with open-source project Hadoop, and its focusing its efforts around data management and transfer, easing analysis systems within virtulized environments. Twitter is one of the many big players that has found benefits in Hadoop’s tools, and we discuss with Twitter developer Kevin Weil at Hadoop World today. “Hadoop ...