Beats Buys MOG, YouTube Launches Live Comedy Channel
There’s a lot of buzz going around the entertainment sector from TV to music as these two industries look to the digital world for their future success. Here are some of the latest developments…
Mobiles Republic Secures $3M Via Series A, It’s Still Anybody’s Ballgame in Mobile Development
By Cherr Aira
Social mobile app developers prefer Google’s immense stack of assets over Facebook’s 900 million users, according to a recent IDC/Apcelerator study, drawing a clear depiction that while developers think that there is a big…
Yummly Gets a Yummy $6M in Series A Funding
Yummly, a top recipe search platform, has closed a $6 million Series A funding round led by Physic Ventures, with contributions from Unilever Corporate Ventures, Harrison Metal Capital, First Round Capital, Intel Capital, The…
Apple’s New Heating iPad, Nokia Applies for Tattoo Patent
Today’s mobile roundup features ATP Capital’s new funding for BlackBerry Partners Fund, Nokia’s Ignite Hackathon contest and tattoo patent, and Apple’s heatgate problem. Apple’s New iPad Heats Up, Literally! It’s like a tradition, every…
Does Big Data Have a Story Beyond Geeks?
During my trip to Austin for SXSW 2012 I wanted to uncover this year’s big data story, and determine the areas to which big data can still be applied. SXSW is a unique instance…
Moxie and Saba: Has The Next Generation Social Enterprise Arrived?
Thanks to well-timed announcements by Moxie Software and Saba, I’ve heard no less than three vendors tell me that they’ve prepared the next generation of the social enterprise model in the last week. Salesforce.com…
Think Big Analytics Launches AWS Consulting Practice, Training Courses
Think Big Analytics is bringing its professional services to the public cloud. The Amazon cloud, to be specific. Think Big Analytics announced today a new consulting practice to help its clients deploy and leverage…
Cisco’s Latest Push Addresses BYOD’s Evolution
Cisco is still very much a networking company–it’s only expanding its horizons, and is actively spilling into some of the newer segments of IT that overlap with its core market. The cloud is one…
HP’s Printer Unit to Integrate with PC Group: Rumor
HP has been through a lot of turmoil in the last couple of years, from the huge cuts in R&D budget under Mark Hurd to the prospect of Leo Apotheker spinning off the $42…
The Power of Augmented Reality and Gamification to Get Better Pictures
By Kyt Dotson
Nowadays smartphones and devices with cameras embedded are ubiquitous and users take pictures of almost everything—they snap shots of their everyday life, buildings, and landmarks—and this can be extremely useful for the big data…