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

Diaspora Co-Founder Dies: Site Revamp is “Tribute” to Zhitomirskiy

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Diaspora*, the open-sourced and distributed community of social networks run by users that enables users to own their own personal data, control with whom you share, and discover cool stuff throughout the Web, lost an important part of their team. Ilya Zhitomirskiy, …

The Flourishing Non-Google Android Market

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

A recent report from mobile analytics firm Flurry indicates that before 2011 ends, over 25 billion iOS and Android apps will be downloaded. And app downloads will double by 2012. Until this year, the US generated the bulk of app downloads on handset. But now, …

High Demand For Real-Time Video Driven By Consumer Demand

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

For every event happening nowadays, you can almost always find a live video feed of that event. Most are free but some you have to pay for. If you’re asking: ‘What’s the big deal with the need for live video feeds?’, it’s …

Veterans Day Gets Techie: Job Opportunities, e-Book Donations

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

So what do you really think about this: 11-11-11? If you’re into numerology or Feng shui, this date could signify a lucky day. If you’re one of those people who are waiting for the end of the world, some say that today …

From Acquisitions to Trashed Products, Is Google Too Diverse?

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Google has been stacking up their cards with acquisitions. In the past few months, they bought Fridge, the social network startup, PittPatt, the facial recognition technology, The DealMap, a daily deals service, and just last month there was SocialGrapple, a social graphs analytics company. These acquisitions …

iPhone 4S Batterygate Fix Now Available; Yellowgate Still Unfixed

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Eager Apple fans who purchased the iPhone 4S when it launched suffered either Yellowgate and/or Batterygate, while those who opted to just upgrade their compatible iPhone to the new iOS 5 suffered from Batterygate. Quick recap: Yellowgate is the yellow screen on …

Pokemon-esque Game for iPhone MinoMonsters Catches Them All December 16

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

There are thousands of apps available apps in Apple’s iTunes App Store and it’s really difficult to choose the right app. Imaginary Feet’s Crosswa.lk could help you in your dilemma but I think most people, like me, have a simpler way: look …

Adobe Flash Mobile Pullout, So What Happens Now?

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, Adobe Systems announced that they will be pulling the plug for Flash for mobile as well as sack 750 employees from North America and Europe to cut cost of expenses. The decision to drop Flash for mobile was made so that …

Crosswa.lk Combines iCloud, Facebook for App Recommendations

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Finding great apps for your iPhone, iPod or iPad has become a prime area of interest for search developers, and Imaginary Feet, a developer of web and mobile applications for iOS, has launched Crosswa.lk, a social network for apps (we have several invite codes for …

Todd Papaioannou in theCube: “Cloud and Big Data are the two mega-trends of this decade”

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO15 YEARS AGO

Todd Papaioannou, an Entrepreneur in Residence at Battery Ventures, with SiliconANGLE CEO John Furrier and Wikibon founder Dave Vellante on theCube at the Hadoop World 2011. During the interview, Papaioannou stated that there are two mega-trends for this decade and that’s cloud …

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Latest from Mellisa Tolentino

The Flourishing Non-Google Android Market

Veterans Day Gets Techie: Job Opportunities, e-Book Donations

From Acquisitions to Trashed Products, Is Google Too Diverse?

iPhone 4S Batterygate Fix Now Available; Yellowgate Still Unfixed

Pokemon-esque Game for iPhone MinoMonsters Catches Them All December 16

Adobe Flash Mobile Pullout, So What Happens Now?

Todd Papaioannou in theCube: “Cloud and Big Data are the two mega-trends of this decade”

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