One Kings Lane, a discounts website for furniture announced that it has raises $40 million funding in a round led by Tiger Global management. The financial backing harbingers the intensification of online-shopping to the dismay of its traditional counterpart. Compared to other online-shopping websites, it gives more weight to discovery than targeted marketing.

In order to keep offering latest phones and keep the unlimited data plans, Sprint announced last week that it has decided to chuck out its Premier Program. The carrier allows its loyal users to upgrade their phones every year, and in order to keep offering such benefit, it has to tighten its belt.

Skype has been speedy with their updates this year that spans across features, a brand new interface, video call control bar and HD-quality video calling. The recent in this string of releases is Skype for Mac 5.4 Beta. Like its Windows counterpart (Skype 5.5 for Windows), Mac users will be able to chat with the ...

According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Google has turned to IBM once more for patents. The documents recently released on the organization’s website confirm that IBM handed over 1,023 patents to Google as of August 17. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed. It has previously acquired a batch of a thousand ...

In order to come up with more open source patents, Intel convinces 4 universities to host Intel Science and Technology Centers at $2.5 million a year for 5 years. The research will be spearheaded by two investigators, one from each side, and will be supervised by three Intel researchers. Four universities have already agreed to ...

Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, searches for the most innovative applications around IPTVs, Blu-ray players and Blu-ray Home Theater Systems, and opens Free the TV Challenge with higher stakes year-over-year since its commencement 5 years ago. The challenge also hails the roll out of 2.5 Samsung’s Software ...

NBC’s Twitter account was hacked Friday evening and released a string of false Ground Zero terrorist attack tweets. The account was breached just days before the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with the hackers tweeting false claims. Riding the wave of rumination, aren’t we? The hacker group introduced themselves as "The Script Kiddies.” FBI is currently ...

Badgeville, a startup that adds dynamics of gamification to ecommerce and web publishing websites to engage users, launches a new product called Social Fabric. The company is looking forward to adding social networking features on websites on top of providing badges, awards and leaderboards. The new tool will allow users to see activity and interaction ...

It’s an uphill battle for players in the All-In-One printer arena. As one of the big players in the industry, HP unleashes TopShot LaserJet Pro M275. It boasts a capability that goes beyond that of traditional multi-functioning printers we’ve always seen in the market. By extending the TopShot arm above the printers, and positioning an ...

Amidst the growing mobile competition, Orb Live pulls out a decider, allowing users to enjoy an entire media collection (music, photos and videos) to stream on their favorite mobile device via PC or Mac at no additional cost. Orb Live also lets users watch their favorite sports by offering ESPN3, as well as their favorite ...