Digital publishing welcomes a new player on the field; a free app for the iPad called Zite, posing serious competition to popular app Flipboard that was awarded as the iPad app of the year 2010 by Apple. Flipboard would centralize the feeds of Twitter and Facebook accounts, displaying them in a magazine format, accompanied by ...

Game publisher platform OpenFeint has teamed up with The9, the Chinese online Game operator and developer, for the expansion of mobile games already available to iPhone users to the Android, the OpenFeint network, and also to China. “Fund9 is focused on bringing the best mobile apps and platform technologies to China. Our partnership with OpenFeint ...

Sprint  Nextel and Deutsche Telecom are now talking over a future merger between the third and fourth largest wireless carriers by subscribers in the U.S., namely Sprint and T-Mobile USA,  a subsidiary of Deutsche Telecom in the USA. Yet, according to people that are close to the matter, the chances of such a merger taking ...

Attendees of this year’s SXSWi conference, locals and visitors of Austin alike, will delight in this year’s promos. They’re becoming the real rock stars of Interactive, using the event as a testing ground, proof of concept or marketing gold.  It’s hard enough to keep up with the conference’s schedule, let alone all the  parties.  You’re ...

Given the advancements made in the IT&C domain, the increasing use of mobile devices, such as tablets, mobile phones and netbooks that are constantly connected to the internet, it is no wonder that print publishing adapted its ways of reaching the target to market trends. Companies are developing programs that ease the publishing process with ...

During the Cloud Connect conference held today, a most notable event is the latest team-up between Dell, Opscode and Rackspace.  The trio offered a live demonstration of the first fully automated provisioning of a multi-node OpenStack cloud, as a result of a 7-month joint effort of more than 50 organizations for the creation of an open and ...

With Skype’s launch of a display ad network, it’s clear the telecom industry is facing an ongoing shift in revenue generation, lending itself to the new era of social networking and beyond.  But Skype’s not the only one making strides in chat and video services.  Today Impulse Point and Dell announced their partnership for serving ...

A few weeks ago we covered the news on the acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL, and today AOL CEO Tim Armstrong confirmed that the acquisition is final. The deal marks a new chapter in mainstream and digital publishing, as more industry consolidation takes place.  The acquisition is one of the most notable in ...

A few months ago Microsoft joined the travel-related coalition against Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software, a travel data company vital for, among others, the Bing flight search tool, to which Google later replied by accusing Microsoft of replicating its search results to improve the Bing engine. No one would expect Google and Microsoft ...

AOL announced today the acquisition of Outside.In, a hyperlocal content platform.  Reported sources say that the transaction will involve the sum of $10 million. It is interesting that the buyout takes place amid layoff rumours among AOL employees. Rumor is not the proper word, actually, as  CEO Tim Armstrong confirmed that a wave of layoffs ...