Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent out a letter to Apple employees informing them of a celebration to be had this coming Wednesday. In the mournful wake of Steve Jobs’ passing, Cook reveals that this event will be held in honor of the Apple’s former CEO and all that he’s brought to the company...
Daily Archives: October 10, 2011
Big, Beautiful Photos Of Facebook’s iPad App (AAPL)
Image: Screenshot See Also: If You’re Stuck On T-Mobile, The Galaxy S II Is Your Only Hope LIFE OF ZUCKERBERG: As Told By His Brand New Facebook Timeline Facebook Totally Caved To Apple On Its New Mobile Platform After months in App Store Purgatory, the Facebook app for iPad is finally here. We...
For mobile in-app sharing, Twitter tops Facebook 3-1
Mobile developers are increasingly finding the power of social integration in their apps, which is one way to make them engaging and sticky and to help get the word out about their apps. But all social integrations are not equal. User by user, Twitter integrations on mobile apps drive three times as much sharing...
Memo to newspapers: Let your readers inside the wall
The Guardian, the U.K. newspaper that has been one of the biggest mainstream-media champions of a “digital first” approach and a proponent of “crowdsourcing” the news, says it’s now going to experiment with allowing readers to help decide what news to cover. The paper announced Monday that it’s going to make its “newslist” —...
Microsoft tells the enterprise not to wait for Windows 8
When a product cycle is measured in years, migration between versions can be a tricky topic. Microsoft, still dealing with its self-induced Vista hangover, is in a tough spot: It needs to get the enterprise sector to drop Windows XP, as it’s now nearly a decade old (akin to using Windows 95 in 2005,...
Y Combinator Is Getting One Submission Per Minute
Image: Bloomberg TV See Also: TALES OF A FOURSQUARE VIRGIN Smart Entrepreneurs Follow The Zig Zag Principle Palantir Technologies Becomes A $2.5 Billion Company With $70 Million More In Financing Everybody wants Y Combinator to fund their startup. Paul Graham, who founded the popular startup accelerator, just tweeted that Y Combinator is now getting...
Y Combinator Is Now Getting Over One Application Every Minute
Wow. Silicon Valley-based startup incubator Y Combinator is getting just over one application per minute, according to a Tweet from co-founder and partner Paul Graham. Today is the last day for applications for the next Y Combinator class, and clearly founders are in a rush to get their applications in. Back in August, Graham...
Groupon Make Sales Numbers More Private
Groupon is dramatically changing how they display the number of deals people purchased. Soon you’ll only be able to see the percentage rather than the exact number of deals purchased. Earlier today the companyannounced that, “Instead of showing the exact number of Groupons purchased, the counter is now reduced by a random percentage–sometimes 0.5%,...
Future Google Subsidiary Invokes Asimov to Protect Android
Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. In one of the brilliant short stories that Isaac Asimov contributed to the science-fiction collection The...
AT&T Has A Way To Work And Play On The Same Smartphone (T)
Image: ATT See Also: 9 Internet Privacy Mistakes You Can’t Afford To Make, And How To Prevent Them Check Out These Early Concept Sketches For The iTunes Logo How The iPhone 4S Will Prevent Another “Antennagate” Disaster ATT just announced Toggle, a new service that will enable corporate Android phone users to carry just...