Kristina Farrah
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Shopify, Grockit Raise New Funding Rounds to Fuel Growth
Apart from innovation and patent wars, there’s the struggle that exist among investors in finding the potentially next big thing to invest on its growth, and be among those who rip off the lavish ingathering. Investments have been laid on the tech sector in particular, hoping to financially position themselves in the intricate yet lucrative ...
Likes and Check-ins Add Up to 2M Springpad Users
Springpad, the smart notebook app that helps you remember anything you come across when you need it most, today announced that it has saved 27 million products, books, movies, music, recipes, places and digital book, as entered by its 2 million users. It has doubled from a million six months ago, and with a reported ...
Monetizing Mobile Security: the Good and the Ugly
Let’s start with the bad news. Android’s currently dealing with a phony Netflix app that looks identical to the original one. It was first spotted on an online user forum and works by sending the user’s log-in details to a remote server and then flashes a message claiming some sort incompatibility concerns with the hardware ...
Mobile Traffic Surging, iOS Devices Dominate
We are now seeing the horizon that harbingers the domination of mobile traffic. It was previously predicted that mobile devices will soon topple traffic from desktop computers, and it’s starting to happen now as comScore reportsthat smartphones and tablets are the sources of 7 percent of worldwide traffic on the Web.
The Problem with your 3 Year-Old Playing Angry Birds on your iPhone
The advent of computer games comprises half of my childhood, but it was more like Nintendo games such Super Mario and Milk Nuts, and then Counter Strike and Diablo later on. To be honest, I still play them occasionally to this day. I love the nostalgia I feel each time I encounter the obstacles that ...
The Big Apple Delivers Big Data for Improved NYC BigApps Challenge 2011
The NYC BigApps 3.0 just launched, and it marks the third year of the competition. It’s calling for software developers and members of the public to create and develop web and mobile applications using official city data. The launch was led by Mayor Bloomberg.
AddThis Unravels 5 Years of Sharing Behavior: Infographic
Five years ago, there were less than a hundred million people using the internet. Today, we have over 1.2 billion users causing traffic to the virtual world on daily basis. Here’s an interesting infographic called “Five Years of Sharing" from AddThis, the world’s largest content sharing platform. It outlines the sharing behavior of internet users ...
Scammers Take Advantage of Steve Jobs’ Departure
I’m a huge of admirer of Steve Jobs and I mourn for his demise along with a couple of hundred million others from all over the world. Though he was expected to depart this life weeks after he was diagnosed with a rare type of pancreatic cancer in 2004, the tech world was never really ...
Layar Contest Finalists Focuses on the Commerce of AR
The 15 finalists for the Layar Creation Challenge were finally announced. Layar is the largest open platform for mobile augmented reality and the competition is aimed at building concepts around useful and unique layers of using Layar Vision.
IBM, HopStop Love Data for Efficient City Projects
Technology changed the way we live. It’s a faster, more dynamic world we’re moving in now, and it’s hard to imagine how we communicate to such distances and heights using very small devices. But unbelievable as it is, its reality and we’re living in it right now. Technology touched our lives and the next thing ...