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Zynga Takes on Mobile Gaming with 4 Acquisitions
Zynga, creator of popular massive multiplayer online games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, and CityVille, and had their successful IPO last December, acquired four mobile gaming companies. In an interview with Reuters, Zynga’s top mobile executive David Ko announced that the company acquired four small mobile gaming companies before 2011 ended. Back in August, Zynga acquired ...
Mobile Cloud 101: Leaders, Underdogs and Innovation
Perhaps you’ve noticed a growing theme around connected devices, especially thanks to CES last week. Mobility lies at the center of this trend, and the mobile cloud will become an increasingly important term for consumers and enterprises alike. Let’s take a look at the mobile cloud and all it means in today’s world. What is ...
iPhone 4S China Launch Stirs Angry Mob of Apple Fans
Apple is well known for creating so much hype in their products that people go ballistic. Apple fans even go to the extremes of falling in-line for 12 hours or more just so they could be one of the first to purchase a freshly released Apple product. But it looks like Apple’s plan in China ...
Users Split over Facebook “Listen With” Feature
Last year Facebook kicked up their offerings up a few notches, especially after Google+ launched. It’s not like they’re just about to watch someone else take the spotlight away from them, like they did to MySpace and other social networking sites that are now a thing of the past. They launched a few changes last ...
Google’s “Share Plus Your World” Raises More Privacy Issues
Google has been known as “The Search Giant” for years now, and people who were annoyed by commonly asked questions came up with a snappy retort to these unending queries: “Google it.” Last year, Google+ launched. It was Google’s latest attempt at social networking. With that, Google decided that people aren’t only searching about content ...
LG Signs Microsoft Patent Deal, Faces Fines for Price Fixing
LG Corp., the second-largest South Korean electronics conglomerate company, is creating quite a big buzz, starting with product launches at this year’s CES, and now, they’re caught up in patent deals, looking to investors for stabilization, and being fined for fixing prices. LG-Microsoft Last year Microsoft was awfully busy signing patent deals with Android ODMs and ...
Foxconn Mass Suicide Averted after Worker Negotiations
What if you’ve been working your butt off, but when you ask for a raise in salary your boss tells to either quit your job and receive compensation, or keep your job but receive no additional payment? What would you do? Well, a group of Chinese workers thought that a threat of a mass suicide ...
Sony Gives Google TV Another Chance but Not Through Smart TV
Back in October of last year, Google released the much needed update for Google TV. The 2.0 version of Google TV is much simpler, like they went to basics, which is actually good as it doesn’t look as disorganized as before the update. But the most important addition that came with the update is the ...
Connected Vision: Sony vs. Samsung CES
There are a lot of exhibitors at this year’s CES and it can be overwhelming just looking at what they have to offer. Still, you can’t get enough of the top brands showing off their new gadgets. Since this year’s theme is about connected devices, I think it would be fun to compare these products. ...
Trojan Poses as CarrierIQ Solution
In November of last year, the mobile world was rattled when news of the CarrierIQ app secretly logging keystrokes and other mobile activities broke out. People became paranoid and wanted to get rid of the app so they can have some peace of mind. Many started searching for a solution – a quick fix– but ...