YouMail Allows Users to Personalize Caller ID
Any owner of a US phone number under YouMail can now customize their caller ID with the company’s new service, who.youmail.com. The caller ID will appear more like a profile on a social networking…
Evri Updates iPad App, Preps for Kindle Fire Next
Mobile content discovery engine, Evri, has been having a steady growth of user since its late September launch. They offer personalized, topic-based approach to news discovery in an effort to give users what marketplaces…
Android-Loving Steve Jobs Invokes Rage on YouTube [Video]
Derisive or amusing, a Taiwanese electronic company sure managed to get some worldwide attention as they impersonate Steve Jobs and turned him into an Android lover. Sporting Taiwanese comedian Ah-Ken with Job’s typical black…
Mobile Business Intelligence on the Rise
The explosion of mobile device usage and the propagation of powerful smartphones and tablet computers have become the catalysts for business intelligence to expand to mobile as well. When I look back to those…
BlueGlass Acquires Voltier Digital to Shore up Marketing Services
In order to bolster offerings in content marketing, BlueGlass Interactive acquires Voltier Digital, a company that specialized in infographic production and data visualization. The three founders of Voltier will take on senior roles in…
Worldwide Mobile Payments for Live Gamer
Live Gamers announced this morning that they have integrated PaymentOne into their platform for international mobile payments. Through PaymentOne’s AnyPhone, users will be able to have access to the simplest means of making in-game…
After Losing 100k Paying Users, Sky Splits Pay TV from Satellite
It’s the age of over-the-top connected TV services and they’re giving off a perilous aura strong enough for long-standing TV content companies such as BSkyB to engage in a major shift. BSkyB announced that…
Big Beautiful Data: How to See a Song
This week’s big beautiful data series dwells around the media and entertainment sector. First off, we have the work of New York Times data artist Jer Thorp, “Visualizing 138 Years of Popular Science Magazine.”…
Yahoo Kills 10 Mobile Apps, Hones Focus on Social TV, News
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson steer clears the company from 10 mobile apps that are hardly used by users to get itself in order. The announcement comes in a blog post Friday afternoon and includes…
Tabbedout Hires New CEO as Niche Mobile Payments Heat Up
Effective immediately, Paul Fiore becomes the new CEO of Tabbedout, a leading mobile payment startup targeting the hospitality industry. Fiore has over 20 years of executive leadership experience in technology and finance services industries.…