With Microsoft's new Outlook.com free email service getting so much attention, will Google and Yahoo need to update their own email offerings before they start to lose users? Google's Gmail will need some updates to grab a piece of the ...
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Facebook shares fell 11% in after-hours trading in to a record low of $23.94 after announcing its first financial results since listing on the New York stock exchange in May. While the social network announced second quarter revenues of ...
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The US judge in the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung has reprimanded the South Korean firm for releasing evidence that had been ruled inadmissible in court. Last week, Samsung lawyer John Quinn defended the move, saying the ...
Mobile US advertising is expected to rise 180% this year. A report by eMarketer that US mobile ad spending has skyrocketed, with a large majority attributed to ad formats like Facebook's newsfeed ads and Twitter's promoted products. ...
Tags: Mobile, Advertising, Mobile Advertising, Consumer Electronics
Amazon is set to reinvent retail again, with the launch of the Kindle Fire 2. With a price tag of 159 for a 7-inch device that undercuts the Google Nexus and iPad rivals, Amazon is attempting to sell a service as much as it is selling a ...
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U.S.-based corporations and government agencies have been shipping application development work to offshore IT services providers for years. Now, thanks to cloud computing, foreign companies are starting to bring their business to ...
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Facebook's store of data about its users holds some surprises, and not just in the sheer quantity of data it is sitting on. Among the surprises it held for me was SBupsk. One of 47 topics about which Facebook thinks I am interested in ...
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Samsung has filed papers at a US court alleging that Apple’s iPad mini infringes eight of its patents in the latest clash between the two companies. The rival companies are fighting cases against each other in more than 10 ...
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Coca-Cola is taking a legal case against the Northern Territory cash-for-containers scheme, which is the only comprehensive recycling and litter reduction scheme that really works, said Jeff Angel, convenor of Boomerang Alliance. "Mt ...
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Motorola Mobility, a division of Google, has created an ad that mocks the troubled Apple Maps application in iOS 6. iOS 6, which runs on the new iPhone 5, was rolled out last Wednesday to generally positive reviews. One notable trouble ...
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When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
Samsung's Galaxy S III has won stellar reviews and reportedly sold more than 10 million units in early sales. Now the smartphone is also climbing fast in its share of Web traffic, according to a report issued Wednesday by Chitika, which ...
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Google said it is shutting down its online marketplace for TV ads, and will focus instead on web advertising including its own Google TV, it said Thursday. The TV ads program, launched in 2007, was promoted by Google as a great way for ...
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Royal Dutch Shell plc released its third quarter results and third quarter interim dividend announcement for 2012. Highlights: • Royal Dutch Shell's third quarter 2012 earnings, on a current cost of supplies (CCS) basis, ...
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INSTAGRAM has promised not to sell users' photos as a storm of outrage continues with celebrities among those dumping the photo-sharing service. Changes to the privacy policy and terms of service at Facebook-owned Instagram taking effect ...