We already know that YouTube is seeing 3 billion videos viewed per day day, but now the online video giant is now seeing a whopping 800 million people per month visiting the site, Google revealed in its third-quarter earnings report last week. And today, YouTube is also announcing the ability to sell merchandise, tickets...
Chinese social gaming company Happy Elements has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Legend Capital with participation from existing investor DCM. This brings Happy Elements’ total funding to $35 million. Beijing-based Happy Elements is one of the top Asian social gaming developers on Facebook and has launched a number of popular...
Comparing devices that rely on fundamentally different ecosystems isn’t always productive. For the user that is entrenched in the iOS system, with hundreds of apps to their name, there is little chance that they are going to be switching over to an Android device any time soon. And for those that have all of...
Looking over the web and especially the blogosphere over the past couple of days, it seems there is only one thing everyone wants to talk about: Siri. With the iPhone 4S now in millions of peoples’ hands, as expected, it’s clearly the stand-out feature of the device. But wait. Voice technology has been around for a...
Children hoping to watch Sesame Street on YouTube on Sunday were greeted with quite the opposite. The channel was hacked, all videos deleted, design modified and graphic porn uploaded. A blurred screenshot is posted below. It took Google around 22 minutes to pull the content down and close the channel but even now, search...
I remember visiting a school in Accra, Ghana earlier this year. Though many of its students could recite the lyrics of popular musicians in Ghana, none of them had heard of YouTube or even of the Internet. Such experiences brings one face to face with certain realities; first is that Africa remains the world’s least...
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It’s obviously impossible to know just what’s going through the mind of the child in this video from Jean-Louis Costanza. But given how she interacts with an iPad with ease and seems frustrated by magazines, it definitely gives the appearance that she wishes that issue of Marie Claire had multitouch capabilities. Article source: SAI...
Editor’s note: Contributor Dan Kaplan leads Product Marketing for Twilio and writes occasionally about the extrapolation of the present into the future. With the rise of Google+, the decrease in controversial posting activity by famous tech people and the allure of other shiny new things, the majority of tech press has turned the focus of...
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