Yahoo is bidding to strengthen its presence in the increasingly important mobile space with the acquisition of Alike, a location discovery app. The move comes as Yahoo faces rising pressure to stay relevant and offer mobile products for ...
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When there's a blizzard approaching, people flock to grocery stores for bread and milk, test their generators...and nowadays take to Twitter and Facebook. Social networks have lit up with activity as a blizzard of of potentially historic ...
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Twitter has confirmed that it acquired Bluefin Labs, a vendor of data that uses commentary on social networks to measure the effectiveness of commercials and programs on TV. "We believe that Bluefin's data science capabilities and social ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer thinks there are problems with checking email on a smartphone, but her company is working on a solution. "Mail isn't done. There are a lot of things about it that can be improved," she said Tuesday during Goldman ...
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New software capable of dredging social media websites, mining people's social networks and "predicting their behaviour", has been developed by defence contractor Raytheon. The software, called Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT), ...
Balluun, the leading wholesale social commerce platform for fashion designers and retailers worldwide, and Merchant Factors Corporation, a leading factoring firm servicing the needs of growing businesses, announced a strategic partnership. ...
Sony has announced a new K-12 Education Initiative which focuses on helping schools easily integrate devices into the classroom, allowing teachers and administrators to better harness the power of tablet and mobile technologies for ...
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Computerworld - When Americans sit down to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday, they're going to be chatting about the game and the commercials with their friends. But they won't necessarily be cracking jokes and commenting on plays with ...
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On Jan. 13, local developer Wang Jun found that downloads for his app had suddenly skyrocketed, totaling 58,000 in a single day. "Usually, it only gets between 1,000 and 2,000 daily downloads", he said on Thursday. But the spike in ...
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The wait was worthwhile: The long-delayed BlackBerry Z10 smart phone is sleek in design and brims with intriguing features, including arguably the smartest phone keyboard ever. Paired with the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, with its ...
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are using Twitter to track what has been a particularly severe flu season across the U.S. As people take to Twitter to complain about being sick with the flu and its dreaded symptoms, researchers ...
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The newly rechristened BlackBerry has delivered on its promise to breathe new life into its aging, iconic product line for diehard fans, but faces an uphill battle against the iPhone and devices based on Google’s Android operating ...
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Many large companies are embracing internal social networks, but for the most part, they're not getting much from them, according to analyst firm Gartner. By 2016, some 50% of enterprises "will have internal Facebook-like social ...
Updated with videos, below. After more than a year, RIM has finally taken the wraps off new BlackBerry smart phones that use Version 10 of its operating system. And RIM has officially changed its name to BlackBerry. Two new phones were ...
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IBM will launch before midyear several new and improved collaboration and communication products, including a new suite for human resources tasks and a major upgrade of its Connections enterprise social networking product. The company, ...