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Image: Dan Frommer, Business Insider After Apple’s big June quarter results, we decided to take another look at its earnings call and report. The numbers Apple is producing are just mind boggling. Apple is like one of those amazing sports teams just racking up win after win, crushing the competition. It’s an amazing thing...
JK Rowling’s announcement last month that she would finally be releasing digital versions of the Harry Potter novels was met with great excitement. That’s no surprise as the series is much beloved and Rowling’s announcement timed with the release of the final Harry Potter film. Fans, feeling nostalgic perhaps for the books themselves, are...
We’ve previously sung the praises of Pixable‘s Facebook, iPad and iPhone apps, which approach Facebook photos in a whole new way, helping you find the best photos posted by your friends. Now the New York startup is taking the same approach to videos. The new version of Pixable’s Web app, which rolls out today,...
How hot is the mobile video chat market? So hot that one of the leading technology companies in the space, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tango, has raised $42 million aimed at rapidly growing its workforce to compete with startups like ooVoo and industry heavyweights like Skype. The round also gives it a little extra cash...
Less than two years after open sourcing the design of the 67TB “storage pods” that underpin its cloud backup service, Backblaze is at it again. This morning, it shared on its blog specs for a new, 135TB storage pod that costs only $7,384. Its open source designs have been wildly popular since Backblaze released...
Much has been made out of the use of social media in the Middle East over the past few months. An initiative recently launched by Egyptian blogger, Mahmoud Salem, better known to his followers as Sandmonkey, aims to harness all of that attention, but this time, for a charitable cause. Salem has been at...
At Fortune’s BrainstormTech conference, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said he still believes in commerce as a potential revenue stream for Twitter, Dan Primack writes. It’s interesting because Twitter’s previous attempt at a commerce product, the @EarlyBird account, flopped. That being said, Costolo is right. There are two big opportunities for commerce on Twitter: Discounts....