Tactic Games has expanded its sales team, with the appointment of Sabrina Green as sales administration manager. Green (pictured) previously managed the web fulfulment team at Links of London. "Sabrina will strengthen the sales team and ...
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American Express is rolling out a new service on Twitter that lets card holders make purchases on the social network through specialized tweets. Dubbed "Amex Sync," the technology integration will allow Amex users who sync their cards ...
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Web hosting provider and domain name registrar Go Daddy has acquired M.dot, the developer of a mobile app for website creation and management by small businesses. Compatible with Apple's iPhone and iPad, the app will help Go Daddy's ...
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Social networks are expected to light up tonight as users react to the president's State of the Union address. President Obama will give the first State of the Union address of his second term at 9 p.m ET. With Obama expected to touch on ...
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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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The UK's first Skylanders Giants window display will appear at Hamleys today. More to follow. Want to receive up to the minute toy industry news straight to your inbox? Click here to sign up for the free ToyNews Daily Digest and ...
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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Countries that have signed on to international cybersecurity agreements tend to have fewer malware infections among their citizens, according to new research released by Microsoft and George Washington University. Countries that have ...
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Barbie's Malibu Dreamhouse is on the market for $25 million. Kind of. The price tag is for "entertainment purposes only" - a campaign to get fans talking on Facebook. She's packing up her fictional three-story pink palace to kick-start ...
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The new Moshi Monsters Light Buddies will launch exclusively in The Entertainer first. The 99p RRP products will roll out to Toys R Us and other High Street retailers soon after. Zappar has teamed up with Milkshake and Mind Candy to ...
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Africa has become a battleground for low-to-mid-range smartphones following high-profile launches of products from leading manufacturers in the last two months. In Kenya last month, Safaricom, the region's largest mobile carrier, launched ...
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Samsung has launched a new series of “smart feature phones” called REX, which the firm will sell in emerging markets. Countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China will drive much of the volume growth in the ...
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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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Facebook is being sued by the family of a deceased Dutch programmer who held two patents dealing with sharing and updating social media content long before the social networking site launched. The suit, filed Feb. 4 in the U.S. District ...
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Should an abstract idea written into software and run on a computer be patentable? That's one question a U.S. appeals court will consider Friday when it hears arguments in a case with broad implications for software patents for companies as ...
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