Fashionlista, a growing online fashion community, has received a $0.5 million funding from Atomico Venture and Dutch entrepreneurs Marc Schröder and Michiel Muller, in addition to seed capital.  Fashionlista will benefit greatly from this investment, not only by the money involved, but also by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom’s participation. The rapid growth mentioned earlier is ...

The Microsoft security bulletin summary for January 2011 reveals two vulnerabilities with a severity rating of critical, respectively important. The first vulnerability regards the Microsoft Data Access components that could allow remote code execution if users view a specially crafted Web page and the most affected would be users who operate with administrative user rights. ...

Appcelerator‘s got a few new team members on board; a good indication that the company is on the up-and-up. A top platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop and iPad applications, Appcelerator has doubled its team, leading notably with two key figures – kinky Clark and Trenton Truitt. This drive for enhancement in size functioned ...

The New York-based company Pixable, known for its online photo sharing and stocking solutions, has introduced a new tool for Facebook users. The increasing usage of social networking is interesting for tertiary parties too, such as Pixable, who gets involved by offering an accessible smart technology for managing Facebook friends’ photos, which reached the 100 ...

Sequoia Capital has funded Square Inc. with $27.5 million, along with a series of strategic and individual investors. Square, the mobile payment  transaction, is now valued at $240 million, after previous valuations that did not exceed $45 million. Back in those days, Khosla Venture would fund Square with $10 million. Roelof Botha, former CFO of ...

Comcast, the  US cable operator, announced today the enhancements made to its iPad application. The update will give users using wireless internet the possibility to watch most live shows on television streamed by Comcast, plus 3,000 hours of on-demand content. Last November, Comcast informed about the developments made at that time for the Xfinity iPad ...

In the case of Uniloc’s patent infringement, the jury brought in the verdict against Microsoft. During the Court Appeals, Uniloc succeeded to prove that Microsoft was using illegally its software for detecting piracy. This cost Microsoft $388 million, being found guilty and “fundamentally tainted by the use of a legally inadequate methodology.” The first round ...

It’s no new news that Facebook has overcome Yahoo! In terms of number of visitors; the difference between the two giants is not dramatic, but Yahoo’s efforts to maintain its market share are easily spotted with the search engine’s affiliation with Flickr and Delicious. Even Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO, admitted that “our greatest competitor probably ...

Clearwire is facing some issues with its iSpot being discontinued after no more than half a year since its launch on the market. Our chief editor Mark  “Rizzn” Hopkins commented on Clear troublesome situation: “We’ve been following Clear’s moves for quite a while, and frankly, this product always seemed out of place, given the company’s ...

Social media again makes its impact on shopping this season. A report from Tealeaf reveals that for the next period social channels carry a great weight for online shopping businesses. The Tealeaf Online Shopping Social  Media Buzz Report shows that an increase of over 200% during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday are owed to ...