Thanks to the web and social media, interruptions have become not just a way of life, but a way to work according to survey data out from Cisco. The networking giant found that among college students and young professionals, 24 percent experience three to five interruptions in a given hour, while 84 percent get...
Social audio platform Audioboo has launched a new paid service which offers users the chance to upgrade to 30-minutes of recording time and a host of additional benefits. Launched in March 2009, Audioboo allows users to record a near-unlimited snippets of audio, which they can share with friends or broadcast to the world. They...
HTC’s worldwide growth in the smartphone and tablet markets has helped the company become Taiwan’s top international brand, after the company was honoured with the title at an event on Wednesday. The company, which is now the world’s fifth biggest smartphone maker with a brand value of $3.6 billion, more than doubled its value...
Adchemy CEO Murthy Nukala Adchemy, the six-year-old online ad technology company, has raised $61 million in a Series E funding round led by Microsoft. Adchemy, which currently has 160 full-time employees, hopes to add between 50 and 80 more staff in the months ahead. About half of the company’s workforce is in engineering. This...
According to the Pew Internet project, people in the 18-24 year-old range are sending 110 texts per day on average. The median number of texts sent by that group is 50 per day. The overall average for texts sent per day amongst cell phone users is 42, says Pew. That number is flat compared...
Right now there is something very interesting happening in the world of mobile music production and it’s essentially a development that’s going to radically change the way mobile devices are used to create and perform music in the future. It’s undeniable that the iPad has taken its place as a serious device for music...
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Storage giant EMC is adding more muscle to its Hadoop strategy with a 1,000-node cluster for testing new Apache Hadoop releases and a new analytics appliance combining EMC’s Hadoop distribution with the EMC Greenplum Database. Most EMC watchers should have seen the new Data Computing Appliance coming since the company launched its Hadoop plans...
In November of last year, TechCrunch broke the news that Yardsellr, the eBay for Facebook (without the auctions), had raised $5 million in series A funding from Accel Partners. At the time, the investment seemed testament to the growing interest in the value of bringing eCommerce to Facebook in order to expose it to,...