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HBO, Time Warner See Promise in Connected Devices
HBO Go has been doing a great job so far, drawing more viewers to the cable network and making great company earning calls, as announced by CEO Jeff Bewkes Wednesday. Time Warner decided to make the service available beyond web browsers and mobile devices, but to connected TV and video game consoles as well. HBO ...
Digital Publishing Gaining Traction; Time Inc. to Offer All Titles Digitally and More
Time Inc. dares to make the first step in digitalizing all of its print titles by the end of the year. It's first major US magazine publisher to do so. The magazine stalwart currently has 4 titles out of 21 circulating digitally which include People, Time, Sports Illustrated and Fortune, selling 600,000 thousand digital copies ...
RIM to Release New BlackBerries for AT&T, Sprint and US Cellular
RIM announced new touch-screen or keyboard packing smartphones running BlackBerry 7 OS to be released to three US carriers. The BlackBerry Torch 9810 resembles the current AT&T Torch but with specs greatly improved, more notably, the operating system. The Torch 9850/960, on the other hand, marks RIM’s second attempt following the BlackBerry Storm.
Facebook Denies Digital Publishing Plans with Latest Acquisition
Facebook’s latest buyout so far is Push Pop Press, a digital book publisher behind Al Gore’s popular interactive app ‘Our Choice’ launched earlier this year. Does this mean Facebook intends to take its stake in the digital publishing arena?
More than 12 Million Users Pay for Facebook Games Every Month, says PayPal
According to a data released by e-payments vendor Paypal, over 12 million users fritter money on Facebook games, comprising about 1.6 percent of the social network’s 750 million users. A little less than 2 percent may not sound too much but it’s enough to hold together a company as huge and successful as Zynga, netting ...
Google Acquires The Dealmap as Talent Buys Forge Ahead
Shopaholics can now shop anytime, anywhere using Amazon’s membership only destination MYHABIT.com as it now has an iPhone app as well. The new app will offer designer sales for a limited time starting 9:00am PT/12:00 ET. It will also keep customers reminded of upcoming designer brands sales events. We can recall Amazon entrance to the ...
Google Loves HTML5 with Tablet Search Overhaul
Google overhauled the design and features of its browser-based Web apps as you might have already noticed if you’re using an iPhone or Android smartphone. This happened about the same time Google+ went out to cater 10 million users, with the social network’s design being the core look and atmosphere of the search remake. Google ...
Personal Cloud Needs More Space, Dropbox Stretches Out in SF
Personal cloud storage company Dropbox leases a bigger office to cater its expansion. They also intend to hire 400 more employees, making them 8 times larger than their current size.
Foursquare Adds Groupon to its Daily Deal Partners
Foursquare has been establishing partnerships with a host of companies in the daily deals arena these past few months for its app. Starting today, the company will be taking Groupon deals as well. The Groupon deals are currently being offered in the Chicago area only and is looking to expand to the rest of the ...
Google+ and Privacy: It’s in Your Hands
It’s rather expected that cyber attackers who’ve been lurking on Facebook will gradually allocate focus on Google+, the newly launched social network by Google. There’s always a way or two to make one’s profile safer and it’s a matter of personal discretion to protect it. That being said, social media networks are not entirely at ...
