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

Microsoft to Credit Windows Azure Users for Leap Day Outage

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

February 29 was considered quite lucky by some people since it happens only every four years. Couple’s wed on that date because Feng Shui stated that their marriage would be prosperous. But some people disagree, just ask some Windows Azure users: they experienced a …

Pinterest + Facebook: Lowes Benefits from Virtue’s Latest Platform Perk

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

If you’re a business owner, whether it’s big or small, it’s pertinent to have your own website. In today’s world of social media, there’s plenty of resources to help you syndicate and drum up activity across the board. While Facebook Pages and …

Yahoo Takes Facebook to Court, Apple Still Battling Proview, Motorola

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Here’s a quick recap of the latest happenings in the patent disputes that have taken over Silicon Valley, from Yahoo and Facebook to Apple and Proview and Motorola: Yahoo! Last month, Yahoo! made it known that they are contemplating on imposing a …

Apple’s Siri Faces Lawsuit, ICS Rolls Out to Galaxy SII, Sony’s New Xperia sola

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Today’s mobile roundup features a man suing Apple over Siri, the new Sony Xperia sola, the ICS roll out and more. Apple The iPhone maker is facing a new lawsuit, this time from New Yorker Frank M. Fazio with regards to false …

The Sina Problem: Verifying Social Media User IDs is a Matter of Validating Data

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Sina Corp.’s Weibo, China’s Twitter, has until March 16 to acquire all their users information to comply with the government’s standards. Back in December, the Chinese government ordered the microblogging site to obtain users’ name and mobile numbers and verify them. If …

SXSW Questioned as the Venue for Launching Startups

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

South by Southwest is the best venue for startups to show off what they’ve got but with more startups doing that, it’s getting a bit crowded and startups are finding it hard to get noticed. Five years back, SXSW was the go …

Samsung’s Weapon Against Apple, Instagram’s Android Invasion

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO14 YEARS AGO

Today’s mobile roundup features Samsung’s secret weapon in their case against Apple, Nokia Money being discontinued, PaymentOne rebrands and Instagram’s Android invasion coming soon. Samsung Samsung may have gotten a break for their case against Apple with regards to their tablet dispute. …

Best Android Security Apps Revealed: Is Your Device Really Safe?

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

In an earlier report we covered AV-Test’s latest research, which featured the best mobile security apps. The findings came from the rowing issue regarding Android’s weak security such as the recent adware spaming or the Google Wallet security flaw, but nothing catastrophic …

Twitter Get 4 New Languages but Pisses Off Novelist, Radio Host

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Twitter launched in four new languages: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. What’s different about the launch is that it’s not only the language that was changed but the user interface of Twitter was altered to support right-to-left languages. In January 25, the …

Facebook Outage In Europe and Asia, New Facebook Messenger For Windows

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Facebook users in some parts of Europe and Asia experienced problems accessing the social network today. According to Belfast Telegraph, at around 6.45am GMT users in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Russia and Turkey were unable to reach the website from …

Mellisa Tolentino

Latest from Mellisa Tolentino

Microsoft to Credit Windows Azure Users for Leap Day Outage

Pinterest + Facebook: Lowes Benefits from Virtue’s Latest Platform Perk

Yahoo Takes Facebook to Court, Apple Still Battling Proview, Motorola

Apple’s Siri Faces Lawsuit, ICS Rolls Out to Galaxy SII, Sony’s New Xperia sola

The Sina Problem: Verifying Social Media User IDs is a Matter of Validating Data

SXSW Questioned as the Venue for Launching Startups

Samsung’s Weapon Against Apple, Instagram’s Android Invasion

Best Android Security Apps Revealed: Is Your Device Really Safe?

Twitter Get 4 New Languages but Pisses Off Novelist, Radio Host

Facebook Outage In Europe and Asia, New Facebook Messenger For Windows

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