DeNA Acquires Ngmoco, Expanding West to the US
Japanese social game developer DeNA CO., acquires San Francisco based Ngmoco for $400 million.
OraOop Sounds like a Basketball Trick, but it’s Really an Oracle-Apache Enhancer
At Hadoop World today, a new tool was released from Quest Software and Cloudera, the company behind Hadoop. Called OraOop, it’s a connector between Oracle and Apache Hadoop, allowing for fast, scalable data transfer…
Android Market Updates Catch Up Users with the Rest of the Herd
Google and Android’s carriers have rolled out several low-profile updates for Android Market, transforming the Smartphone OS’s old navigation to a significantly more convenient and simplified one, that focuses on easier app search and…
Why Is Google Testing Self-Driving Cars?
By Kyt Dotson
We’ve all seen them in our favorite SciFi movies and shows: cars that drive themselves: from Demolition Man to Minority Report. But how far away are we from getting our very own vehicles that…
Comcast Goes Mobile and Launches Xfinity Wi-Fi
Comcast is diving head-first into the Wi-Fi arena, offering Xfinity Internet customers the ability to access thousands of additional hotspots throughout the greater Philadelphia, a sizable area of NJ and northern Delaware. This is…
Senior Citizens Invade Facebook!
A chart from AllAssistedHomes.com shows that senior citizens are also getting their hands on neoteric craze such as computers to take part in one of the biggest contemporary obsessions on the internet which is…
Hulu Heading for IPO With a $200-300M Potential
As a source revealed, Hulu is planning an IPO which could raise anywhere between $200-300 million, and hoist its total value to right around a sweet figure of $2 billion; a respectable figure for…
Mail.ru Announces IPO by End of 2010
By Kyt Dotson
The most popular Russian site on the web, Mail.ru, is making their initial public offering by the end of the year. Little is known about the upcoming public offering, but it looks like it’ll…
Is Gap’s New Logo a Crowdsourcing Black Ops?
By Jeff Nolan
Here’s an interesting argument… that Gap hoodwinked everyone into signing on to crowdsource a new logo by using their decidedly crappy “new” logo as bait: That’s right. One of the most prominent popular fashion…
Windows Phone 7 Has Arrived! Here’s the Rundown.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has unveiled Windows Phone 7 today, in all its glory. A handful of devices for AT&T and T-Mobile offer a good start for consumer availability, and the specs aren’t half…