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Apple-Motorola Lawsuit: $2.7 Billion at Risk
Following the victory of Motorola Mobility in a legal dispute against Apple in Germany related to the infringement of two patents, it seems that the Californian Company risks a loss of $2.7 billion in an ongoing patent case in Europe concerning iCloud and MobileMe. If the judge approves the charges relating to the breach of ...
DataSift Launches Twitter Data Analysis and BI Platform in the US
Twitter real-time analysis platform DataSift has pushed out official launch in the US today. The British company, which built its commercial filtering and organizing through reams of Twitter data in real time, is moving its headquarters to San Francisco this week. DataSift was founded in 2008 by Nick Halstead, creator of TweetMeme, and is one of ...
Daily Deals Seek Premium Packages in Lifestyle Apps
LivingSocial, the main competitor for Groupon across the Atlantic, has launched a new feature called Room Service (available at home) and Instant Ordering (real-time order). The new services offer delivery of meals to high-end home from participating restaurants. For now, these offers are only available in Washington D.C., LivingSocial’s hometown. However, LivingSocial is looking forward ...
Siri Gets a Face; Jon Briggs, the Voice of Siri Breaks the Silence
The man behind the male voice on the iPhone 4S Siri system in Britain has revealed himself. The man happens to be Jon Briggs, a former technology specialist. After the launch of the iPhone 4S, Jon Briggs noticed during a demonstration on television that the Cupertino company has used his voice on Siri. Apple does ...
Mavenlink Raises $3.9 Million For Cloud Collaboration Offering
Mavenlink, the first cloud based online interactive workplace, has raised an additional $3.9 million in capital from Quest Software and Madden Capital Partners as well as individual angels. The funding will be used to develop new technology and services to upkeep the company’s growing user base of over 100,000 users. The company has raised $5.5 ...
Lookout Mobile Drives Global Front, Partners with Telstra
Security is one of those things that we should think about when it comes to our tablets or smartphones. Just think about the amount of sensitive information stored on your handset, and the many apps that access your phone, some of which are unknowingly freeing up your personal data, and others that are right out ...
State of Oregon Counties First to Introduce iPad Voting for the Disabled
You can do many things with Apple’s iPad. You can go online, compose e-mail, download hundreds of applications, listen to music, and watch movies and now: Vote! Indeed, some residents of Oregon, may vote with the Apple iPad. The people of the State of Oregon may find that a box on a black piece of ...
Oracle-Google Settlement Won’t “Settle In” until Next Year
The ongoing dispute between Oracle and Google over Java intellectual property violations will take more time than expected to settle. According to a filing in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, yesterday Oracle and Google held discussion over conference and tried to sort out the differences but the meeting failed to reach ...
AOL, Yahoo Put Faith in Ad Networks as “Senior” Portals Seek New Life
AOL’s latest ad network strategy just may be paying off, though the company is seeing losses in other areas. In the first nine months of this year the Internet portal reported a loss of $9.7 million, 98.8 percent less than the same period in 2010, though advertising revenue went up for the second consecutive quarter. ...
Groupon Sets the Date for an IPO on Friday
Daily deal site Groupon will reportedly price its IPO on Thursday, and begin NASDAQ trading as soon as this Friday. According to All Things Digital, although the financial market is still not stable, the group buying site will continue its IPO efforts and will officially go public by the end of this week. Groupon stock ...