The web really wants to get it down to street level, and people are buying the convenience. Today, the hyper-local arena gets two more players as Quipster and Mundo Media-acquired Living Deals launch.

Rovio is phenomenal. We’ve seen it conquering the mobile gaming arena, hitting millions and millions of downloads. Today, the gaming powerhouse takes yet another step to advance their stance and improve mobile gaming with the acquisition of Helsinki, Finland-based animation studio Kombo. Details of the deal were not disclosed but Kombo is expected to refocus ...

In an effort to revolutionize the way people shop, Google finally unveiled its mobile wallet service in order to wrap around with its NFC technology. New York and San Francisco are the testing points, allowing NFC-enabled phones to conveniently tap their phone on a payment terminal to pay for goods. Google supports Mastercard credit cards ...

Cloud-computing powerhouse VMware confirmed that it will magnify its headquarters in the Stanford Research Park by taking over a million square feet of adjacent lot abandoned by pharmaceutical giant Roche last year. It won the bidding against search giant Google and a bunch of other unnamed companies. The expansion will increase VMware’s lot area from ...

I can’t blame employees who prefer using personal smartphones and tablets to access corporate data. Now that we have portable but potent devices to swap with the awkwardly-sized PCs, why not use it? Oh yes, these devices are not well-equipped against malware and other forms of cyber attacks. While this might sound like a bad ...

Big ideas were once small ones, and this underscores the importance of startups. Big companies had their humble beginnings. Normally, startups come up with small philosophies and designs that promise a certain future, thus, becoming a target of acquisition of bigger companies ( e.g. Google acquiring YouTube). It is with this thrust that a good ...

Unlike YouTube’s 5th year celebration where it created a special website with messages from prominent figures such as Conan O’Brien, this year’s anniversary is more muffled and subdued. Youtube only came up with a blog announcing the website’s dramatic increase in size.

Social networking giant Facebook is fulfilling one of its lifelong dreams: to launch a music service, as it today announced a partnership with Spotify. Sources close to the deal said it could roll out in a week or two. Facebook already had a music service before which Sean Parker bumped off, saying it’s still too ...

Bluestacks has been around for a couple of years now, but its founders Rosen Sharma, Suman Saraf and a couple other colleagues didn’t really know what to focus on. Not until Saraf’s daughter wanted to play the same Android games she’s been playing when they were in Switzerland for vacation on their Windows PC when ...

Can you imagine a world without Facebook now that you’re already living a world with one? I can’t, and I don’t want to. I’m sure a gazillion other will agree with me. It has become so tightly integrated with our lives that it’s now part of who we are. In fact, we sometimes prefer to ...