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Y Combinator Backed Chute Gets $2.7M In Funding, Brings More Social for Developers
Chute, a Y Combinator backed company that helps apps and sites capture, manage and display media files, just closed a $2.7 million round of funding led by Freestyle Capital with the participation of Battery Ventures, USVP and Salesforce.com, as well as individual investors Joe Fernandez, Binh Tran and Joshua Reeves. “The best brands and publishers ...
New Kindle Fires May Come As Early As July 31
In our last Amazon piece, we mentioned their upcoming Kindle Fire, or should I say Kindle Fires, since news surfaced that Amazon will be launching Kindle Fires of various sizes. According to Demos Parneros, president of U.S. Retail for Staples Inc., Amazon is getting ready to release 5-6 tablets of different sizes as they push ...
What’s the Difference between the iPad Mini and a Grown iPod Touch?
We’ve been hearing about Apple’s plans to launch the new iPhone by September or October. In fact, we’ve heard so many rumors that it seems like we’re overlooking other Apple devices which are said to be launching alongside the iPhone 5. Apple hasn’t released a new device since the iPad, and while it’s still far in the ...
Galaxy Tab Banned in EU as Australia Case Moves Forward
Today’s mobile news roundup features: Apple winning an EU-wide injunction as Australia case moves forward; Samsung adopting CSR aptX audio codec; and Nokia’s latest acquisition. Apple wins EU-wide ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 The Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court in Germany has granted a very important injunction for Apple: the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is ...
The Truth About Government IT Security and What a Smart CIO Should Do About It
During this day and age when almost everything revolves around using the computer and the Internet, it’s bothersome to hear how services aren’t that secured and your personal details can easily be hacked by malicious beings to steal money from consumers or just wreak havoc in the interwebs. But what’s more alarming is finding out ...
Census Bureau Joins the Visual Data Revolution
Do you love reading reports? As in reports with a lot of words on them? Like 100 pages of just words? I don’t–that’s just boring. And data tables are just as bad. It’s quite dizzying, looking at numbers. Charts are okay, but some can still be quite confusing and droll. But thanks to recent developments ...
Four Alternatives to TaskRabbit: Getting the Job Done
TaskRabbit, the task and errand service that finds people to do the jobs you hate, announced that they raised $13 million in Series C funding led by Founders Fund, an existing investor, with the participation of Shasta Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures, Shervin Pishevar, and 500 Startups. They also announced that they’ve added two ...
Amazon Expands To UK, Ready to Release Various Tablet Sizes
The release of Google’s Nexus 7 sparked a lot of tablet rumors. Some sources say that other OEMs are getting ready to release a tablet that would compete with Google’s entry into the tablet market. It’s a big challenge for the Nexus 7 to compete with Apple’s iPad, but also other tablets built on its ...
Mobile Monday News: Apple-Samsung Case Called “Ridiculous” by Aussie Judge
Today’s mobile news roundup features the following: the Samsung and Apple battled dubbed ridiculous by Aussie court; Apple’s stunted growth; Permanent iPhone unlock for AT&T subscribers; Intel not porting Android for Clover Trail tablets; and more. Samsung-Apple case Dubbed ridiculous by Aussie judge Samsung and Apple’s three-month trial regarding patent infringement began in Australia today. ...
Your Favorite iPhone 5 Rumors: Readers’ Picks
Some of you may already be sick of reading about iPhone 5 rumors, but we just can’t get enough. But even if the rumors are better than what Apple releases, I’m sure we’ll see hoards of people waiting in line overnight, just to be the first to get their hands on the new iPhone. Remember ...
