During f8, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Timeline to replace Profile and Wall. The new functionality will enable users to have more control over what they have published on their account from inception to date. “Timeline is a completely new aesthetic for Facebook,” says Zuckerberg. It will also be available on mobile devices.

Lonely Planet decides to create a mobile travel startup separate from its mother company BBC. Dubbed as Fourforty Inc., the new company is based in San Francisco and is geared towards the development of social mobile travel guides.

El Segundo, California-based Just Fabulous announced $33 million in series A round of funding led by Matrix Partners, in participation participated of Technology Crossover Ventures. The capital will be used to create more categories of its e-commerce subscription model, as well as to expand internationally.

Rypple debuts its powerful social performance management platform to the mobile scene by launching an app for the iPhone. The application is available for free, and like it’s web-based counterpart, will allow managers and employees to recognize great work, provide immediate feedback, and stay connected outside the office premises. Among many others, Rypple iPhone app ...

Hactivist collective Anonymous has been busy all year round messing with huge corporations, government sectors, the Texan police and even Hollywood celebrities. However, it seems like they’re not stopping the big talk anytime as they announced in a press release another disturbing plan of launching a “Day of Vengeance” against the US on September 24. ...

Sugarsync makes significant updates to their Android and iOS personal cloud offerings. For Android, Sugarsync extended the Mobile Device Management which used to be available for iOS only. It streamlines the transport of files from computer to mobile devices. For iOs, Sugarsync adds text editor and new functionality for increased productivity to put more power ...

Faithful to the idea that mobile video is going to boom in high levels over the coming years, Klip, an upcoming mobile video service, builds around the concept and allow people to connect through “the magic of mobile video.” It won’t be too far from this day and age that people will capture almost every ...

Today, Amsterdam, Netherlands-based Layar, the largest open platform for mobile augmented reality (AR), establishes a partnership with Telefonica I+D in order to avail of its powerful visual search technology: IRIS. Visual search is a fundamental piece in vision-based Augmented Reality services. It allows for real world object to function as identifiers or hyperlinks or both ...

Anonymous has kept the Los Angeles office of the FBI busy investigating its somewhat erratic targeting of eminent figures. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller spilled to CNET that there are already dozens of victims so far. The sector has been at this whole investigation thing since late 2010. Unlike corporations, celebrities are rather round and about ...

Bump, the content-sharing app for iOS and Android, released an infographic on new usage data. Contrary to the popular belief that Bump is only for sharing contact information, the app is actually being used to share all kinds of content. It also boasts its 50 million user, 10 million of which active, and is currently ...