The online shopping space is growing significantly in India, that’s according to new figures published by comScore which show that almost 60 percent of Indians with Internet access visited an online store last month. The figures are an 18 percent increase in visitors to online stores in the last year and comScore puts this...
It was once one of the Internet’s heavyweights, but these days MySpace is a pale shade of its former glory. Proof in point, word has it that the News Corp owned company will close its Japan office on February 1 next year, a little over 5 years after first opening it. The shuttering of...
Solid engineering talent is such a prized resource nowadays that many tech firms have taken to doing acqui-hires, which is the practice of buying a company for its employees rather than for its products or technology. But it’s not just startup founders and programmers who are benefiting from this trend — the open source...
Steve Jobs has won a posthumous Grammy Award, reports the Mercury News. The Grammy is one of a variety given under the Trustees Award banner. The Recording Academy announced today that Jobs would be awarded one of the Special Merit Awards given out to those who have had an effect on the music business. It...
Flickr has just pushed out an update to its iPhone app, easing the batch upload process and making some UI tweaks. It will surely be welcomed by the many Flickr users who use iPhones, but Flickr’s continual reticence to develop for new platforms remains a problem. It took them more than a year to...
2011 was the beginning of the big data onslaught, but hold onto your hats: big data will only get bigger in 2012. I’ve spoken to a bevy of experts in the last few weeks, ranging from venture capitalists to vendor execs. Here are some of their thoughts on how the world of big data...
Image: Robert Scoble Under the microscope. See Also: Mark Zuckerberg: Gladiator! Kedrosky: Zynga Is Going To $6 A Share In The Next 12 Months Most Tech IPOs This Year Were Total Busts Facebook execs are getting used to the prospect of being a public company by scripting fake earnings calls where they have to...
In a comScore study posted today, we are reminded of what we already knew; Facebook is an absolute beast when it comes to cornering people’s time online. For example, this stat seemed so insane, I thought it was fake at first: Social networking accounts for nearly 1 in every 5 minutes spent online in...
Friendly Formats Kindle and iBooks are locked down. Their formats only work in their own environments. Google uses ePub and PDF, which means you can get them onto any device, one way or another. To read it on your Kindle, you’ll have to settle for the PDF version, but hey, it works. For all...
Sometimes it’s hilarious to taunt your amphibian with fake flies on your smartphone. We saw a lizard getting the juice to hilarious effect here, with the Android game Ant Crusher. The gent below attempted the same trick with his South American horned frog (also known as Pacman frogs for their large jaws), but failed...