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Fab.com Celebrates Anniversary With Llustre Acquisition, UK Office
Fab.com, the e-commerce company with a focus on modern design for daily flash sales, is celebrating their anniversary with an acquisition. The acquisition speaks to the company’s goals for global growth as it reaches out to new markets. Fab acquires Llustre To expand their reach, Fab acquired Casacanda in Germany to jumpstart their Continental European ...
Is Apple’s Map App Better than Google’s? Let’s Compare
It was no surprise when Apple announced at the WWDC 2012 that iOS 6 will no longer feature Google Maps, with grand plans to push their own map and navigation app. The two are battling over market dominance and Apple’s decision to opt out of Google Maps may take a huge toll on the internet ...
Another Yahoo Exec Shakeup: Michael Barrett Hired From Google
Yahoo! Inc. announced that they’ve hired Michael Barrett as their new Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer. He will be in charge of Yahoo’s advertising revenue and operations globally, with Americas, EMEA and APAC regional leads reporting to him. “Michael Barrett is regarded as one of the most successful and influential executives in media ...
Will Microsoft Reveal an iPad or Kindle Fire Rival Today?
Last week we were greeted with Microsoft’s invite for their event, which takes place today. Though the invite itself was vague, just containing the date, time and venue, speculation over its product details quickly took over. First was the rumor of a Microsoft Windows 8 tablet, as in their very own tablet not manufactured by another OEM. ...
Monday Mobile Roundup: Games on TV, More NFC and an Acquisition for MoMo
Today’s mobile news roundup features Draw Something’s future in TV, HTC’s mobile banking phone, Motorola Solutions’ acquisition of Psion, and more. Draw Something to become a TV show The popular guessing game Draw Something by OMGPOP, previously acquired by Zynga, will soon become a television show. CBS Broadcasting Inc. purchased the pilot of the show ...
Facebook CTO Leaves Shortly After IPO, Works on Startup with Google Exec
Bret Taylor, Facebook’s chief technology officer, announced that he will be leaving the social networking giant for a startup company with his friend Kevin Gibbs, head of the Google App Engine Project. Here’s Taylor’s post on his Facebook profile: I wanted to let you all know that I’ll be leaving Facebook later this summer. I’m ...
Survive the Zombie Apocalypse with these Gadgets and Apps
I’ve been fascinated with the world of the undead since I was a kid. Though it gave me endless nightmares, i just love watching shows or movies about them. But what creeped me out the most were zombies. Just the thought of rotting people chasing you as prey makes me giddy with excitement and terror. ...
Former Judge Aids EFF In Retrieving Megaupload User Files
Most of us have moved to the cloud–we put our most precious data, photos, videos, files, in the cloud like it’s a bank where we put our money in. But there’s a huge difference. A bank, if it goes bankrupt, gets rob or hit by a series of unfortunate events, they would return their clients’ ...
Patent War Revival: Apple vs. Motorola Hearing Next Week
Today’s mobile news roundup features Apple vs.Motorola, Microsoft’s rumored tablet unveiling, Dropbox’s update for its iOS app, Nokia’s declining stock prices and more. Apple-Motorola patent dispute revived US Judge Richard A. Posner scheduled an injunction hearing regarding the Apple-Motorola Mobility patent dispute after raising the possibility that the case may be dismissed as the two haven’t ...
Microsoft Addresses Security Vulnerabilities, Motorola Ban
Microsoft is shrouded in a curtain of scandal with the their controversial performance at the Norwegian Developers Conference and their future privacy-violating, emotion-based ads. But that’s not where matters end. It’s just the beginning. Microsoft patches vulnerabilities Yesterday Microsoft issued a warning to their users stating that attackers are utilizing the vulnerability in their system ...