Although Google Plus has not yet managed to outshine Facebook users by volume, the search engine’s latest attempt at a social network already has a notable number of followers. From December, the fans that the top 100 firms have in their circle has grown by 1,400 percent. According to a study by BrightEdge, a social ...

Today when you browse the Twitter Home page, you might be surprised to see a new layout. Indeed, Twitter has upgraded its new profile interface to all users. Initially launched to a small group of users in December last year, the new layout was announced with the idea of making everything simpler.  Twitter’s not only ...

Twitter is a great platform for social interaction. We all are aware of that. But what we often overlook is the fact that Twitter could be equally useful as a commerce platform. One company thinks this is the case, and it is working to bring monetization to Twitter. A Portland, Oregon based start-up called Chirpify launched ...

Last year, AT&T warned smartphone customers that it will slow down their service once the user hits 2GB of data used in a month. AT&T reasoned that only the top 5 percent of data users will have their data throttled or slowed down on that particular month billing cycle depending on a user’s data consumption. ...

Global mobile payment market revenues will raise from $47.2 billi­on in 2011 to $998.5 billion in 2016, according to a study by Canadian-based provider of market intelligence services, IE Market Research (IEMR). According to a recent IEMR report, mobile payment market revenues are expected to grow at a CAGR of 83.7 percent between 2012 – ...

Google’s earliest employee (1st official employee), Craig Silverstein, is leaving the company. Craig will be joining the online learning school, Khan Academy.  Khan Academy is the inspiration behind SiliconANGLE’s upcoming Silicon Academy tech learning project. Google has confirmed the news. Silverstein is actually Google’s third employee, after the two co-founders – Larry Page and Sergey ...

There’s a new dawn for streaming video services, promising cheaper access to millions of video convents.  Amazon is gearing up their streaming service in partnership with Viacom to provide a stiff competition to Netflix, while Blip raised a new round of funding to enhance their web content. Here are some recent developments in streaming video ...

Taking effect this month, Amazon will be lowering the prices for its Amazon S3 services. Depending on the amount of stored data, the price cuts are from 0 to 13.5 percent. S3 is Amazon’s online storage service, where the company virtualizes the storage and makes them available to customers through an API. According to the ...

One of the highlights of the first ever NodeSummit this year was the participation of new start-up ventures and their adoption of the Node.js. During  NodeSummit in San Francisco, Oxygen Cloud’s founder Peter Chang talked to our own John Furrier and Alex Williams about the current state of enterprise cloud storage adoption. He also briefs ...

Joyent, the California-based cloud computing startup founded by Jason Hoffman, caught up with John Furrier and Alex Williams at theCube to talk about Node’s strategy and technical impact (full video below).  He discussed everything Node.js at the first NodeSummit in San Francisco. In a conversation with own our John Furrier and Alex Williams, Hoffman discussed his ...