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Legal Questions Arise for Flipboard, Repurposing Economy as a Whole
The legalities around content re-purposing are sticky issues, and they’ve been raised again thanks to Flipboard‘s new iPad app. Wired magazine asks the question “is Flipboard legal?” in an article today, pointing out the mechanisms around its scraping methods for obtaining its magazine-style layout. Essentially a news feed incorporating socially-shared and popular data, Flipboard is ...
StatusNet Expands to the Desktop; Truly Control Your Own Twitter
StatusNet makes another play for brands and businesses with a new Desktop offering. The download is a multi-platform, open source desktop client, extending its services beyond the cloud. What clients get is a more customized offering of its services, essentially giving businesses and brands more control over the operations of their StatusNet account. The new ...
Microsoft Earnings Exceed Apple; Dell, HTC and Samsung to Make Windows 7 Phones
Microsoft has reported its quarterly earnings this week, with revenues of $16.04 billion. That’s up 22 percent year-over-year, ahead of Wall Street estimates. That also puts Microsoft around $300 million ahead of Apple, giving the company good positioning for the coming mobile wars this holiday season. Microsoft reported a $4.52 billion quarterly profit, edging Apple ...
Netflix Shares Take Bad Tumble, In Talks for PS3 Update
Netfix shares took an 11.9 percent fall this week, with shareholders dumping their stock after Netflix missed their projections during its earnings call last night. That’s the most Netflix has fallen in nearly two years, landing stock prices at $107.45 early this morning. With second-quarter sales rising 27% to $519.8 million, Netflix was $5.6 million ...
Twitter Getting Custom Data Center, Expect More Growth (Less Fail Whales)
Twitter doesn’t plan on the fail whale coming out to play as often, with a decision to move its technical operations infrastructure to a new data center. Located in the Salt Lake City area, the custom-built data center will give Twitter room to grow and have more control over its operations. It’s a significant sign ...
More Testing for Windows 7 Mobile, Bing Search for All Microsoft Employees
More testing for Windows 7 planned, with Microsoft confirming that it will send all of its employees a phone running the mobile OS. Set to ship before the holiday season, the internal efforts to familiarize and further probe the Windows 7 devices indicates that Microsoft is still on track with its mobile platform initiatives. Testing ...
YAPPER’s New DIY-Style Mobile Apps; User Engagement for Built-In Marketing
YAPPER, the self-service tool for creating mobile apps for the iPhone, iPad Android and BlackBerry devices, has launched two full-featured mobile apps for news organizations today. One for Palo Alto Online and the other for West Seattle Herald, the apps combine mobile news distribution with engagement tools for a complete offering to clients. Short for ...
Google Images Gets New Look, Ads
Google has updated its Images search page, adding navigation tweaks and a new advertising tool for marketers. As far as the layout goes, you’ll notice the space is more efficiently used to fit more images on a single page. Page-scrolling and hover-over thumbnail previews have been added, and clicking through an image result brings you ...
Flipboard and Kindle Springboard from iPad Influence and Success
Flipboard has unveiled its iPad app this week, creating a beautiful and well-designed tool for consuming our social information. Turning all that Facebook and Twitter chatter into a digital magazine, Flipboard has made an enviable skin for our personal "readers," tapping into the fact that social networks are heavily used as means for spreading around ...
Steve Jobs Gets Even with Rising Apple Shares, iPad Demand
Steve Jobs is probably feeling a little vindicated right now, after telling everyone off last week, particularly those investors that were whining about $5 share price drops instead of looking at the long-term value of Apple. The companies shares rose again this week with the Apple iPad’s sales exceeding initial projections, also calling for new ...
