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Samsung Beats Apple Again: Australian Ban Lifted
Samsung is on a roll. After dodging a US ban on their Galaxy smartphones and tablets, and having the German ban on their tablet lifted, the gadget maker celebrates another victory in Australia, where the ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been lifted there as well. According to a report from Bloomberg, “Chief ...
Daily Deals Industry Preps for 2012
This year might be considered as the year of the daily deals sites, as more and more companies venture out into this market. There are daily deals sites dedicated for travelers, moms, spa-holics and foodies. You’d think that the web is already congested with these daily deals sites, but businesses think otherwise. Daily deals sites ...
Google Readies First Asian Data Centers
Google announced that it will spend $300 million on a new data center in Hong Kong which will be operation by 2013. “We’re working as quickly as we can to get this facility operational so we can keep up with rapid growth in capacity demand across the region,” Simon Chang, head of Google’s hardware operations in ...
Fab.com Gets More Fabulous with $40M in Fresh Funds
Fab.com, one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies out there, announced a $40 million round of Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise–Fab.com has taken off with a successful launch and rapid growth, revitalizing the flash sales industry and building out some great vertical markets. “Today, we’re ...
Make Birthdays Special With New Skype Greetings
Birthdays are special and honestly, it’s hard to think of something awesome to give a friend oro loved one on this special day. Birthday cards are so ancient, though they are still sweet. But at this day and age, people want more than just a card. Skype’s betting that you’ll start sending greetings with its ...
OnLive Cloud Gaming Goes Mobile
OnLive, the cloud gaming platform that synchronizes, renders, and stores games on remote servers and delivers them via the Internet, announced the availability of their app for tablets and mobile devices. The app allows gamers to play the latest high-performance games on their mobile devices which were previously limited to only consoles and computers. The ...
It’s a Name and Numbers Game for Warring Mobile Industry
Apple has been trying to product-block competition in the US as well as other countries, riding a case for patent infringement. They were successful in some instances, but their competition doesn’t easily backdown. Apple has been in hot pursuit of Samsung and HTC as their top Android-based competitors. But Android products aren’t the only ones ...
Verizon Takes On Pay TV, 4G & Mobile Payments
Verizon Communiations Inc. is said to be cooking up a plan to take on Netflix and traditional cable TV providers. Verizon currently offers FiOS, a bundled package of internet access, telephone and TV service and they are said to be in talks with prospective programming partners about the upcoming service which will be introduces in ...
Lawsuits and Probes Don’t Slow Down Groupon’s Latest Acquisition
OpenCal, the online appointment scheduling and booking site, has been taken in by Groupon. Though the announcement was made just this week, it’s reported that the acquisition may have quietly taken place sometime in September. OpenCal posted this on their site: “We wanted to share the good news that OpenCal has been acquired and is ...
Facebook Timeline Heads To Land of Kiwis as Zuckerburg Gets Exposed
Facebook recently announced the acquisition of the talents behind Gowalla, the location-based social network, but not the service itself. Though it is unclear as to how the Gowalla team will be incorporated in the social network but chances are, they will be working on the Facebook Timeline – an update to the user’s profile that ...