Words With Friends, the popular multiplayer word game for the iPhone and iPad, offered by Zynga, will be available on Android phones and tablets later this month, making it the latest Zynga title to make its way to Android devices.  The game currently has over 10 million players and Zynga expects the numbers to increase. ...

Apple enriches its app collection with The Daily iPad newspaper, costing News Corp $30 million to gt up and running. It has been some time since Rupert Murdoch first spread his plans of launching the digital newspaper to ensure revenues, considering that The Daily will require about $500,000 per week to circulate.  Apple joined the ...

Google is holding a press event today led by CEO Larry Page, and it is expected to make some announcements for its latest operating system, Honeycomb 3.0, that will improve the tablet experience. The event will also involve Android ecosystem news and hands-on demos of devices such as Motorola Xoom, next generation tablets from Samsung ...

Google’s latest working update on Street Views is the Art Project, a collaboration between Google and 17 of the most famous museums in the world, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Tate Britain & The National Gallery in London, Museo Reina Sofia ...

Seesmic announced today it would receive a $4 million investment from Salesforce.com and Softbank Group, after having previously received funding from Atomico, Omidyar Network and Wellington Partners. The latest investment is Seesmic’s third round of funding, and indicates the cloud service industry’s interest in socially oriented management tools. The total sum Seesmic has received in ...

Today the White House announced the launch of the Startup America Partnership aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship both from the public and the private sector. The campaign will be led by AOL founder Steve Case who acknowledged that “the story of America really is the story of entrepreneurship (…) That really is the core underpinning that ...

AOL Europe has announced today the acquisition of goviral, the video distribution network that distributes video content across the Internet for world top brands (such as ike, LG, Unilever, Paramount, Nokia, Hyundai/Kia, Audi, Nintendo and Gucci), media agencies, creative agencies and content producers. The transaction if worth $74.1 million, out of which $22.6 million will ...

In the last 20 years, storage has represented a big issue in practical terms, when you think about retrieval, growing demands and in exponentially growing amount of data that needs to be kept and protected. Storing a gigabyte of data required the use of a 500-pound machine with the size of a refrigerator. Nowadays, USB ...

Barnes & Noble announced today on their website the update for eReader NOOKcolor that will improve Wi-Fi connectivity and Home and Shop performance. The update introduces new features such as the ability to pinch and zoom in browser and adding a text banner to easily identify NOOK kids Read To Me books. It is obvious ...

In the past week, some  interesting cloud news has come from all directions, but especially from giants like IBM, EMC and Juniper Networks.  That’s no big surprise, but the early year seems a particularly important time to get initiatives off on the right foot, especially for EMC, which hosted a bi-continental event for its Big ...