Daily Deals + LBS: Massive Revenue for Groupon
Groupon’s revenues in 2010 surged to $760 million last year, compared to only $760 million in 2010. The Wall Street Journal reports that offshore users accounted for over a third of the daily deals…
Google Touches Up the Webstore with Google Books Android app
Google introduced in its webstore the Google Books Android app , an app available to the US market only for the moment. There are rumors that Google will extend the Android Marketplace offer from…
Mobile Browsing Bears Great Opportunity for Global Domination. Nokia’s Winning.
Smartphones are gaining increasing popularity and this translates into more and more mobile phone users opening the mobile browser to surf the internet. iCrossing released an infographic on the use of mobile browsers around…
HHS Lays Smack Down on HealthCare Orgs over HIPAA Violations
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is no laughing matter and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made sure that message was clear in a pair…
Cisco Tries To Revive Dimming Spark with Connected City Paradigm
By Cherr Aira
Struggling with its financial state, multi-national producers of electronics and communications technology Cisco is trying to rekindle the fire that once burned so bright. With Juniper Networks’ aggressive moves for the first two months…
Good News for Windows Phone 7 Developers
One of the things that will make or break the success of Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s App Marketplace. Part of that success will be due to the developers who create really cool stuff…
The Rise of Curation is not About Broken Search
By Tom Foremski
Much has been written about how search is broken and this is why curation — in its many forms — is on the rise (Pearltrees is a client). Paul Kedrosky writing on Infectious Greed:…
OpenFeint and Adknowledge Open Free Game Dev Platform
Today mobile social games platform OpenFeint and advertising network Adknowledge announced the OFX 2.0, a scalable freemium platform for iOS developers. Available starting March 7, the platform has quite a bit to offer, including…
Intel Debuts High Speed Multi-Purpose Connection Technology
By Tom Foremski
Intel today unveiled its “Thunderbolt” technology which uses an inexpensive cable to provide up to 40 gigabits of bi-directional data transfer. It can be used for connecting displays, storage, and anything else. It is…
Google Maneuvers to Further Horn in on Microsoft Office’s Turf with Cloud Connect
By Kyt Dotson
Google seems to have its eye on the unfettered office with the release of a new free tool that will ease the portability of Microsoft documents to the web for collaboration. The tool, Cloud…