According to a report conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International in 2010, one in four American adults live with a disability that hinders them from carrying out daily living activities, such as climbing stairs, hearing, trouble dressing, and so on. Fifty-four percent of those use the internet, compared to 81 percent of non-disabled adults. ...

NileGuide, the travel agency that attracted $3.5 million funding in 2010 from KPG Ventures and others, has announced a complete make-over for its website, along with additional features. The $3.5 million will be used wisely and according to the company’s main aim, that of becoming the world’s leading provider of great recommendation ‘for-travelers-by-locals’. The additional ...

Internap has announced the new public cloud storage service built with Openstack’s software. OpenStack  is a cloud computing project run by Rackspace Cloud and NASA, Rackspace being one of Internap’s major competitors. OpenStack is attractive because users like Internap can build on top of it. “We saw the OpenStack framework as solving a lot of ...

Kindle Digital Services announced today the extension of the 70 Percent Royalty Option to books sold to Canadian customers from the Kindle Store for Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, or one of the Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC, Mac, Windows Phones and Android-based devices. With this program, authors and publishers around ...

SoundCloud has given out the details of the beta podcast release program, inviting current and aspiring podcasters to take part in it.  The best and most interesting applications will get a special beta account too, so that users can really test drive the platform. The features of the beta RSS program include RSS capability for ...

Microsoft search tool Bing released updates for its BlackBerry mobile app, so as to remove incompatibility issues with devices running BlackBerry OS 5 and OS6.  The release also included a couple of new features: for starters, the Bing Homepage Hotspots minimizes the amount of time searching for hotspots offered daily, plus additional info on each ...

Kabam has announced today the $30 million funding in massively multiplayer social games so as to carry out its strategic plans. The participating investors are Redpoint Ventures, Intel Capital and Canaan Partners, the latter having provided mentorship for Kabam in its early days. “Kabam has pursued a distinctly different strategy than other social game companies. ...

As the earnings report date is getting nearer and nearer, Yahoo is feeling the pressure, although its stock has settled at $16.50 after a 52-week period at $12.94.  Yahoo has not had any revenue growth in its core US market–it has only had short seller activity in the last period and it is also rumored ...

LivingSocial, the local deal provider and the second player in the field after GroupOn, has recently received a funding from giant Amazon worth of $175 million along with another $8 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners. LivingSocial is doing pretty good judging by its daily revenues go around 1$ million and in turn invests in Jump ...

Fusion-io teams up with Japan’s Tokyo Electron Device to launch a line of ioMemory-based products in order to respond to customer demands. These products will feature Tokyo Electron Device’s customer support. This is the most expensive Original Equipment Manufacturer agreement Fusion-io has ever signed. “Fusion-io is excited to be working with TED, which has a ...