Good intuition or paranoia, Netflix sure does a good job at peaking the interest of the technology scene. In a letter to shareholders disseminated yesterday, Netflix says Amazon was advised to spin off Amazon Prime’s streaming video section, Instant Video, to compete with Netflix’s Watch Instantly service.

Contour and Recon Instruments today announces partnership to bring forth Contour Camera Connectivity App for MOD Live, turning Recon-ready goggles into a viewfinder for Contour+ and ContourGPS cameras. MOD Live provides skiers and riders with instant information useful for both novices on beginner slopes or experts carving up the backcountry, including speed, location, jump analytics, ...

Mobile wallet company HelloWallet secures $12 million in a round led by Chicago-based Morningstar, Inc. and DC-based TD Fund, investing $6.75 million and $4 million respectively. Existing investors and a few new investors also participated in the round to advance HelloWallet’s suite of applications for personalized financial guidance. They are currently serving Fortune 1000 companies.

Seeking to change the way brands work with the help of startups via early stage participation and ventures, Joseph Jaffe launched Evolution, LLC. This new company will match early stage startups with blue chips brands via mentoring, pilot programs and investment. Two blue chips companies, Kraft Foods and Anheuser-Busch InBev., have already signed up for ...

Tailing Facebook and Angry Birds on the Nokia Store, Mundu TV reaches 6 million downloads since its 2011 launch and is now one of the top 10 free app on the platform with an average of 400,000 download per month. The app operates under Geodesic Limited, a leading provider of award-winning communication and entertainment mobile ...

Aiming to “make everything taskable” using any platform, device service or channel---cross-platform task management provider Producteev, today announced that they are now available as a web app, iPhone and Android mobile app, and Windows and Mac desktop app that are more flexible and hyper-connected through social media, cloud services and mobile devices. Incorporating 7 million ...

The arrival of mobile phones has caused people to go gaga over technology even more. If I were to compare them to something equally ambitious and far-reaching, that would be, perhaps, the PC, or the internet –or religion if you may (Apple fan boys/girls ftw). The day the world became hardwired to technology has become ...

Have you ever been submerged to the internet culture long enough to notice that your cyber disposition kinda strays away from who you actually are? I have, and among the many places in the worldwide web that I display my somewhat bipolar personality (it could be more than just bipolar) is when I’m on Facebook. ...

Data visualization has come to the aid of people in many ways. On top of presenting figures in a more convenient manner, understanding them allows us to draw out conclusions and predictions to prevent future tight spots. Complicated matters such as those associated with healthcare are better conveyed by trimming down the tropes and jargons, ...

Reminiscing the times when the iPad was nearing its launch, pundits and geeks alike have been making countless speculations of the fate of Apple's new device -- some positive, some otherwise. But all the same, Apple managed to blow people’s minds like they always have in the past, and tablets are now more popular than ...