Kristina Farrah, Author at SiliconANGLE

Hyperlocalization Trend Gets More Players, Quipster and Living Deal

By Kristina Farrah Jun 1, 2011

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 Expands with Angry Birds TV, Acquisitions

By Kristina Farrah Jun 1, 2011

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…

Android Sparks Legal Battles over Mobile Payments, Samsung Devices

By Kristina Farrah May 30, 2011

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,…

VMware Builds Out Headquarters, Outbids Google for Valley Office

By Kristina Farrah May 30, 2011

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…

Mobile Security Threats Bring Opportunities for Big Business

By Kristina Farrah May 27, 2011

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…

Startup-centric Events to Welcome New Ideas in Nordic Region

By Kristina Farrah May 27, 2011

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,…

YouTube Celebrates its 6th Year with a Major Milestone

By Kristina Farrah May 26, 2011

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…

Facebook. Music. Spotify. Can It Really Be?

By Kristina Farrah May 26, 2011

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…

BlueStacks Finally Makes Dollars and Sense; Android Apps on PCs

By Kristina Farrah May 25, 2011

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…

A World Without Facebook: The Good and the Bad

By Kristina Farrah May 25, 2011

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…

Kristina Farrah

Android Sparks Legal Battles over Mobile Payments, Samsung Devices

Startup-centric Events to Welcome New Ideas in Nordic Region

BlueStacks Finally Makes Dollars and Sense; Android Apps on PCs

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