As the online video opportunity booms, video index and advertising firm Blinkx is growing fast – but not quite as fast as had been expected. The San Francisco and London firm says it will post 12-month revenue of $114 million. That is a hefty 72 percent up from a year ago – but behind...
It’s hard to say how popular Chrome OS, Google’s browser-centric operating system, really is. There can be little doubt, though, that Google is quite serious about this initiative. Today, Google launched the latest developer version of Chrome OS and this update sports the first major redesign of the operation system’s interface since its launch...
Hewlett-Packard is putting more of its chips on OpenStack as a key foundation for its upcoming public, private and hybrid cloud implementations. It’s an important endorsement for OpenStack, the open-source cloud platform launched two years ago by Rackspace and NASA. HP’s also putting more weight behind the KVM hypervisor in what is seen as a swipe at...
Search may not be the most exciting area of online advertising right now, but it’s still “the biggest driver of return on investment”, according to a new report from Adobe. The report has the elaborate title, “Adobe Digital Index: Global Digital Advertising Update” and it covers the first quarter of this year. Compared to...
Things don’t look good for Web freedom in Iran after authorities in the country revealed plans to cut the country off from the World Wide Web, and many popular websites and email by August, according to an International Business Times report. Just yesterday, we reported that the state has blocked access to the official...
Editor’s note: Ruslan Kogan is founder and CEO of consumer electronics company Kogan. Follow him on Twitter @ruslankogan. Recent media reports about working conditions in Apple’s (Foxconn’s) Chinese factories are way off the mark. Through Kogan, I have been working with China for the past six years. Having most of our production done in...
NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has today announced “Reinvent Green,” the City’s first hackathon focused primarily on sustainability and the urban environment. The two-day event, which will take place this summer, invites developers and designers to use the City’s environmental open data sets to create digital tools and apps that empower New Yorkers to engage...
It seems like there’s at least one place people were willing to line up for Nokia’s new Lumia 900 Windows Phone. Geekwire reports Microsoft held a celebratory launch event for the Lumia 900 at its Redmond campus store. Employees are said to have waited in line for up to an hour to get their hands...
I’ll call him Jack, for reasons I’ll explain in a bit. His Commodore Business Machines was already a two-decades-old firm, and perhaps the first retail manufacturer of pocket-sized calculators (there’s conflicting evidence), by the time he conceived a way to sell fully functional personal computers. In 1976, Jack didn’t just buy MOS Technology’s 6502...
Keegan Jones, a designer at Facebook, just posted a photo of the entire Instagram team visiting Facebook HQ. It’s on Instagram, of course. You can compare it against the photos of the team and investors here. We count 12, including cofounders Kevin Systrom (far right, purple shirt) and Mike Kriger (right side, plaid shirt)....