While Zynga and other gaming companies seem to be doing everything possible to claw their way off the Facebook canvas, at least one San Francisco company is still in. Big time. With just shy of 5 million monthly active users on Facebook, Kixeye is ranked a dismal 72nd on the developer leaderboard behind Zynga,...
Apple is pushing to move its MobileMe customer base to its iCloud cloud storage service with a new offer and financial incentive. The firm is offering all MobileMe users a free Snow Leopard OS DVD, in a move that will allow those that have yet to do so to switch to Mountain Lion. MobileMe is...
Payments company Square is raising another major round of funding, but is targeting institutional investors first because of the enormous size of the round, we hear from sources. Square’s CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey and COO Keith Rabois have met with both Fidelity and Legg Mason over the past week, and as AllThingsD reported...
Hong Kong design student Jonathan Mak Long, who gained global recognition last year for a unique logo tribute to Steve Jobs, has seen his career begin to take off after the young designer landed an advert for Coca Cola following his Apple success. The 20 year old, who put former Apple CEO Jobs’ silhouette in...
Nick Feamster of Georgia Tech When it comes to home broadband networks, consumers are like toddlers, demanding everything they want, when they want it, delivered with no buffering, pixelation or slowdowns. Carriers are like parents, giving them limits and caps to keep them in line. But a project out of Georgia Tech using the...
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Want to hear from top startups like Fab.com and Lot18? And NY’s top investors? Join 800 innovation junkies at the Startup conference on May 3, 2012. Register now. Flickr/TechCrunch Ron Conway See Also Boulder Has So Many Open Tech Jobs It Wants To Fly You In To Apply There Are A Million Education Startups...
yoshiffles via Flickr See Also Twitter Is Taking The High Road While Yahoo And Facebook Are Suing Each Others’ Faces Off Here’s How Google Is Trying To Defend Itself Against Oracle These Are The Patents Facebook Says Yahoo Infringes Yesterday, Twitter published a pledge that it would only use patents for “defensive” purposes, and...
If this week’s National Association of Broadcasters Show is any indication, by 2020 “broadcasting” is a term that will be foreign to anyone under 40. Based on the show’s programming this year, as well as the general vibe that multiplatform delivery is the future, it seems that pretty soon no one will be concerned...
AP See Also LIVE: IBM EARNINGS BEAT AT $2.78, Revenue Below Forecasts Sam Palmisano Learned This Leadership Lesson While Doing Business In Japan IBM Just Bought This Cool Little Company Getting a job with IBM used to be the pinnacle of an IT career. Not so much today. IBM is trying to strategically reduce...