Daily Archives: June 27, 2011

PayPal Hits 100 Million Active Users

June 27, 2011
PayPal Hits 100 Million Active Users

PayPal has hit 100 million active users. The company confirmed the milestone today. Last week, the company announced that it was upping estimates of the amount of mobile payments transactions using the technology this year; doubling the estimate to $3 billion in mobile total payments volume (TPV) in 2011. At the end of last...

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E-Reader Ownership Doubled in 6 Months, Growing Faster than Tablets

June 27, 2011
E-Reader Ownership Doubled in 6 Months, Growing Faster than Tablets

Ownership of e-readers is exploding, according to a survey by Pew Internet Research. Over the past six months, ownership of e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and Barnes Noble Nook has grown from 6% to 12% of U.S. adults. E-readers are more popular than tablets devices such as the iPad or various Android slates...

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Exclusive: Yahoo launching Hadoop spinoff this week

June 27, 2011
Exclusive: Yahoo launching Hadoop spinoff this week

Yahoo will be spinning off a separate company focused on the development and commercialization of Apache Hadoop, called HortonWorks. The official announcement likely will come tomorrow or Wednesday to coincide with Yahoo’s annual Hadoop Summit, but rumors have been circulating for months and I confirmed the news today with a source familiar with the...

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Hating Final Cut Pro X? So does this guy

June 27, 2011

Final Cut Pro is generally regarded as one of the most storied franchises in video production. At least that was the case until its tenth version, dubbed X, was released, at which point everything literally went to the dogs. The newest version of Final Cut Pro has been panned as not only unusable for anyone...

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CrowdStar’s New iOS Game Top Girl Sees One Million Downloads in 10 Days

June 27, 2011
CrowdStar’s New iOS Game Top Girl Sees One Million Downloads in 10 Days

Social gaming company CrowdStar has hit a milestone today, passing one million downloads of its recently launched iOS game Top Girl in 10 days. Top Girl is a female-focused mobile role-playing game that allows players to create a fashionable avatar and then climb up the fashion social ladder, collecting money by doing modeling jobs,...

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Microsoft snags patent deal with yet another Android vendor

June 27, 2011

Microsoft’s patent arsenal is often its weapon of choice when it wants to turn the screws on its competition. And there has been perhaps no more famous example in recent months of this than its legal actions against Android vendors to force them to cough up per unit royalties to avoid the company’s legal...

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Copy and paste between cloud services? otixo does, with one-window simplicity.

June 27, 2011
Copy and paste between cloud services? otixo does, with one-window simplicity.

The problem that I have seen with cloud services thus far is that I end up having to log in to 5 or 6 different sites in order to gain access to the services that I want. Then, if I want to move files between them, I have to download them locally, then upload...

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There Will be 2 New iPhones, iPhone 5 & 4S, Analyst Says

June 27, 2011
There Will be 2 New iPhones, iPhone 5 & 4S, Analyst Says

Apple will release two new iPhones come September, according to speculation from analyst Chris Witmore of Deutsche Bank: the iPhone 5 and the 4S. The idea makes sense, as it would allow Apple to simultaneously address both the mid-range smartphone market with a more affordable device while also providing a more expensive model for...

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9 ways to build an easy, engaging content strategy

June 27, 2011

Technology and luxury: two industries that move at a fast pace, demanding constant innovation and high quality products. Luxury was slow in embracing the digital world, but has come a long way in a sort time, allocating increasingly more resources in discovering new ways to integrate technology in all its facets. Today we see...

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It’s Getting Awfully Lonely In PC Land

June 27, 2011
It’s Getting Awfully Lonely In PC Land

Has the personal-computer business become too toxic to touch? It seems as if companies can’t get out of the PC business fast enough. Micron Technology (ticker: MU), which makes DRAM memory chips that go into PCs, among other things, last Thursday reported disappointing fiscal third-quarter results, and warned that its view into the PC...

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