Amazon Web Services announced today its fifth extension of the global cloud computing platform, this time heading again towards the Asia Pacific region, namely Tokio, Japan after last year’s launch in Singapore. The AWS Basic Support is free of charge and is available to all clients, business and non-business. For a more demanding class of ...

Square made public its goals for the year, and revealed that now is processing $1 million a day in credit card transactions over mobile phones. The numbers are pretty good considering that exactly one year  ago, Square was processing millions of dollars per week and signing up between 50,000 and 60,000 new users per month. In ...

During yesterday’s iPad 2 launch event, Steve Jobs provided the audience with some of his opinions on why the iPad 2 will be an incomparable success, and how competitors are wrongfully addressing market trends. The main quality of the iPad 2, on Steve Jobs’ account, is that it is not a PC, and Apple’s success lies ...

Motorola revealed its newest investment, this time going to Moblyng, a leading developer and publisher of cross-platform, HTML5-based games for mobile devices and social networks that has served until now around 9 million clients. Motorola Mobility Ventures seeks out the most innovative and promising new companies in which to invest, and we found a strong synergy ...

Twitter App Seesmic enfolds on the latest updates of operating systems, releasing Seesmic for Android after previous improvements for Seesmic Desktop 2. Version 1.6 of Seesmic for Android features complete Facebook support with Facebook pages enabling users to add one or multiple Facebook accounts, view updates, comments, likes, post to your accounts as well as to ...

Location-based services easily lend themselves to daily deals, and Microsoft’s not one to lose out on this marketing gold mine.  On the tail of AT&T and The New York Times adding deals to their respective services, Bing Deals launches as part of the search engine’s decision-making initiative.  A very smart move, since they have a ...

Location-targeted ads are regarded as untapped goldmines for the advertising and retail domains, and nothing seems to be slowing down this trend.  For just about every industry, location-awareness appeals as a launchpad to hyperactive, social consumerism. Several industries, including search, social, banking, auto and shopping have found some point of leverage for location-awareness.  Even carriers are ...

Social gaming spins good money, and the potential is only growing, as virtual app developers find more ways to monetize intangible goods. According to the chart below,  US social gaming revenues went as high as $726 million in 2009, and by 2012 the numbers are expected to increase by another 67 percent. Social gaming is ...

With today’s Apple event having built a substantial amount of hype, the company offered a full insight on the new operating system for the iPad 2 device. iOS 4.3 will feature a new version of the Safari Web browser that’s promised to run JavaScript at least twice as fast, an improved version of AirPlay, Apple’s technology for streaming ...

IBM launched City Forward today, a free website that aims at improving the quality of life in cities of all sizes around the world.  IBM aims to do so by helping officials make sounder and more scientific decisions on city services. The company closely collaborated with universities, cities and NGOs in order to make public ...