The group-buying format is becoming increasingly more popular. The attention towards the Groupon deal has brought a high level of interest for the group-buying model. The first significant mean of interest was Google’s acquisition, thought to be worth more than a few billion. The result?  A whole lot of attention for other group-deal services, shifts ...

Critical Path software firm was acquired by eBay today, following the plan of the auction and shopping engine to develop a wider mobile application presence. StubHub was a precedent in terms of eBay’s development for iPhone, integrated by eBay in its drive for attracting the mobile users. Although the figures and conditions of the transaction ...

A new partnership between Samsung and DeNA, a worldwide leader for social mobile games ,has been forged, taking the genre global with its growth efforts.  Ngmoco’s social gaming platform is a big part of this deal, and is one of the first major releases since having been acquired by DeNA.  It will be integrated on ...

AMD’s Radeon 6900 is the California-based chip maker’s latest development in its fierce competition of graphic cards against Intel and NVidia. The 3D graphic effects are now more easily reachable with the integration of DirectX 11. AMD’s product launch is a crossing point for high-end PC gaming, competing against game consoles for market share. The ...

Although Ask.com is priding itself on its fourth place ranking among world’s search engines with its 90 million users, in reality the Q&A website is struggling to maintain its 4% coverage of the market, while Google is controlling over 60% of it.  Now, with the release of the free application Ask for iPhone, the development ...

Yahoo! Inc. is on the verge of eliminating 650 jobs, meaning 5 percent of its workforce, an action which continues what CEO Carol Bartz has started in 2009, reports Bloomberg. Last year, after the coming of Carol Bartz, a series of dismissals was brought about, along with the shutting down of under-performing websites. Yahoo’s position ...

In the last 3 years, over 300,000 mobile apps have been developed, and during 2010 mobile apps migrated from smartphones to media tablets. Starting in 2011, mobile apps are expected to migrate even further, to connected TVs and to the connected home. The number of downloaded apps is around 10.9 billion in 2010, and will ...

Voice Search, launched in 2008, was built to serve a wide variety of people, regardless of gender, age, and accents, or variations in pitch, pace, and other factors. Two years later, Google improved this service by offering personalized recognition, a more accurate model. The personalized recognition associates the recordings of the words the user asks ...

Integrate, an important player in the Lead Gen domain and marketing campaign tools, has received a $ 4.25 million in funding from the Foundry Group. This is the first step in attracting considerable sums and forward-thinking implementation for Integrate.  Seth Levine, the managing partner of the Foundry Group, assesses the large need and desire for ...

Hewlett Packard launched HP Critical Advantage, a new service designed for clients running business-critical applications on virtualized HP ProLiant servers. HP Critical Advantage offers each client an account team that supports and maintains business-critical, virtualized environments, giving them the opportunity to focus on innovation.  The service is a great means of keeping costs under control, ...