Image: Kobo See Also: The Kobo E-Reader Touch Is Impossible To Hold And Doesn’t Stand A Chance Against Kindle And Nook Ex-Googler’s Startup Wants Shoppers To Surf Videos Instead Of Photos 10 Things You Need To Know This Morning Japanese e-commerce retailer Rakuten is acquiring Canadian e-reader company Kobo for $315 million. Kobo...
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Prolific European venture capital firm Index Ventures has finalized raising a €500 million growth fund (roughly $700 million), its second such fund meant for later-stage investments. The firm will tap the new fund to invest anything from €10 million to €50 million in ventures with proven business and revenue models located around the globe,...
There have been a number of rumors circulating around Yahoo, Microsoft, and Aol of late, most of them focusing on a potential Aol/Yahoo merger, or Yahoo’s acquisition by Aol or Microsoft, etc. Well, it seems the companies have officially become linked, but they’ve run into each other’s arms not by way of MA, but...
Today is Election Day in the United States and for the first time ever, some voters are casting their ballot using the iPad, the Associated Press reports. In a special primary election in Oregon, disabled residents will have the option of voting on Apple’s tablet computer, which has several accessibility advantages for such voters....
Grove.io, a new way to do IRC , launched today. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap. Sometimes it’s difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we thought it might be helpful to wrap up some of the most talked about stories. Assuming this goes over well, we’re...
Working away at a computer all day may give the grey matter a good work out but doesn’t do much for the rest of the body. Standing desks are growing in popularity as people try to improve posture, but what about a desk that allows you to exercise on your bike while you work?...
Apple has reportedly confirmed that it is not planning to introduce its virtual personal assistant Siri to any devices other than the iPhone 4S, according to 9to5Mac. Confirmation that Siri will remain exclusive to the iPhone 4S for now comes from developer Michael Steeber, who was passed an email from the company: Engineering has provided...
Johns Hopkins is taking a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a 100 gigabit per second network to shuttle data from the campus to other large computing centers at national labs and even at Google. The network will be capable of transferring an amount of data equivalent to 80 million...
The future of news, and of journalism as a whole, isn’t something anyone has a really firm grasp on — as traditional players continue to be disrupted by the web and social tools like Twitter, and new entrants like The Huffington Post. Huge reports on the state of the industry written by journalistic institutions...