Mellisa Tolentino

Mellisa Tolentino started at SiliconANGLE covering the mobile and social scene. Over the years, her scope expanded to Bitcoin as well as the Internet of Things. SiliconANGLE gave Mellisa her break in writing and it has been an adventure ever since. She’s from the sunny country of Philippines where people always greet you with the warmest smile. If she’s not busy writing, she loves reading, watching TV series and movies, but what she enjoys the most is playing or just chilling on the couch with with her three dogs Ceecee, Ginger, and Rocky.

Latest from Mellisa Tolentino

Y Combinator Backed Chute Gets $2.7M In Funding, Brings More Social for Developers

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

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 …

New Kindle Fires May Come As Early As July 31

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

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 …

What’s the Difference between the iPad Mini and a Grown iPod Touch?

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

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 …

Galaxy Tab Banned in EU as Australia Case Moves Forward

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

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 …

The Truth About Government IT Security and What a Smart CIO Should Do About It

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

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 …

Census Bureau Joins the Visual Data Revolution

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

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 …

Four Alternatives to TaskRabbit: Getting the Job Done

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

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 …

Amazon Expands To UK, Ready to Release Various Tablet Sizes

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

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 …

Mobile Monday News: Apple-Samsung Case Called “Ridiculous” by Aussie Judge

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

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 …

Your Favorite iPhone 5 Rumors: Readers’ Picks

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

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 …

Mellisa Tolentino

Latest from Mellisa Tolentino

Y Combinator Backed Chute Gets $2.7M In Funding, Brings More Social for Developers

New Kindle Fires May Come As Early As July 31

What’s the Difference between the iPad Mini and a Grown iPod Touch?

Galaxy Tab Banned in EU as Australia Case Moves Forward

The Truth About Government IT Security and What a Smart CIO Should Do About It

Census Bureau Joins the Visual Data Revolution

Four Alternatives to TaskRabbit: Getting the Job Done

Amazon Expands To UK, Ready to Release Various Tablet Sizes

Mobile Monday News: Apple-Samsung Case Called “Ridiculous” by Aussie Judge

Your Favorite iPhone 5 Rumors: Readers’ Picks

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