RIM is close to opening its first retail outlet in Dubai, as it plans to build its sales presence across the Middle East, as it continues to focus on international markets following efforts in India and Asia. Bloomberg reports that the company is “in the final stages” of securing the lease for a 140...
Daily Archives: April 11, 2012
Following rival Amazon’s move, Walmart is reportedly looking to enter India’s e-commerce space
India’s e-commerce industry has seen a number significant moves this year already, and rumor has it that US retail giant Walmart is looking to grab a piece of the action and follow rival Amazon into the country. According to a report from Business Standard in India, the company is “actively exploring” India’s growing online...
Instagram Aftermath: It’s Time For Entrepreneurs To Go All In
Editor’s note: Adeo Ressi is founding member at TheFunded and The Founder Institute. Follow him on Twitter @adeoressi. Q: What does the Instagram acquisition mean for startups? A: A LOT. At the close of 2011, there was a lot of uncertainty for startups. Stock market fluctuations, underwhelming talent acquisitions (“acqui-hires”), and structural investment problems...
Walkie Talkie App Voxer Goes Big, IVP And Intel Lead $30 Million Round
Voxer, a walkie talkie mobile app that lets you talk to friends across iPhones and Androids, looked like an overnight success last November when it soared to its current place as a top social networking app in the app stores. But the company is five years old and has been working hard to figure...
This Startup Finally Launched After Being In Super Stealth Mode For Three Years
Wavii Seattle based startup Wavii wants to give news reading a face lift and make it look more like your Facebook news wall. Wavii uses natural language processing to sort through articles, tweets, videos, and other content, then presents them all to you in a way that highlights the facts and the news events. Then it...
Former MySpace Exec: Facebook Must Avoid These 3 Mistakes (FB)
MySpace Amit Kapur knows about the rise and fall of social networks. MySpace was the social network before Facebook, just like Yahoo was the search engine before Google. Ex-COO Amit Kapur joined MySpace when it was just a startup, stayed until after it was bought by News Corp for $580 million in 2005, then...
People Are FLIPPING OUT Because The New Google+ Design Has So Much White Space (GOOG)
Serhane Med Amine via Google+ See Also Take A Look At The Brand New Google+, Which Google Just Revealed How Did Google Miss Its Chance To Buy Instagram? Here’s Everything You Need To Know To Use The New Google+ Google redesigned its Google+ social networking site today, and apparently people are flipping out about...
The new $399 iPad 2 uses a tweaked 32nm A5 chip, which may help it get better battery life
As far as we’re concerned, the cheaper $399 iPad 2 is the most important device that Apple announced back in March. Now an interesting new detail has been revealed about the price-sliced tablet. It uses a revised version of its A5 processor that has been built on the 32nm Samsung High-K + Metal Gate process,...
How the cloud could bring big data to your local deli
Big data tools could help cafes determine what specials are best on what days. The headline might sound like buzzword stew, but it couldn’t be any truer. Big data is red-hot right now for good reason — it really can significantly improve companies’ bottom lines — but doing it right can be hard. You...
Samsung Has A Tablet That’s Better Than The Kindle Fire [GALAXY TAB 2 REVIEW] (GOOG, AMZN)
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Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also 10 iPhone Features Google Should Steal For Android Um, Wait — What Is Instagram? NOKIA LUMIA 900: Microsoft’s Final Hope For Windows Phone Is Mediocre At Best Finally. We have a tablet that’s better than Amazon’s Kindle Fire at a comparable price. Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab 2...