Amazon is looking more like old-school IT vendor every day. In November, it will host its first-ever partner and customer conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas. The web services giant posted a “save the date” for the three-day AWS re:invent show on its blog Wednesday. The event will run from November 27 through 29. Pinch me: It’s like Comdex** coming back to...
Evernote has announced that it has launched a dedicated service for Chinese users, Yinxiang Biji, which will run completely separate of Evernote and its existing Chinese-language offering. Last week, CEO Phil Libin revealed that the firm was close to opening a data center in China, however he didn’t reveal that an entirely new organisation would...
Draw Something, the game that could do no wrong now seems like it can do little right, at least according to the blogosphere. There’s been a string of stories from virtually everyone saying that the OMGPOP acquisition is “haunting” Zynga because Draw Something’s daily active usage is down to 9.1 million daily active users from...
Flipboard CEO Mick McCue has revealed that its number of downloads in China will “easily surpass” those in the US in the near future, as its move to create a Chinese operations begins to reap rewards. The company launched a Chinese service last December, which included a dedicated editorial team before adding iPhone support in March, and...
The online retail world is experiencing a bit of deja vu. In 2000, there was eBay’s so-called “Million Auction March,” in which some influential eBay sellers tried to redirect a million auctions from the popular retailer to hundreds of competing auction sites. Fast forward to 2012. On Thursday, thousands of Etsy members are planning their own...
Back in July of last year, we wrote about a New York City-based startup, called Consmr, which was attempting to build the Yelp, or Rotten Tomatoes of consumer goods. There’s now more web research on consumer goods than ever before, but few resources that use crowdsourced data and social integration to recommend the right...
Earlier today (US time) President Barack Obama made a huge move when he publicly endorsed same-sex marriage, and his announcement on Twitter is close to passing 50,000 retweets. Obama’s team is particularly digital media savvy and, as is so often the case with his announcements, the corresponding tweet has been retweeted left, right and center....
Virtualization security vendor BeyondTrust is acquiring eEye Digital Security for undisclosed terms. The two companies have leading technology in somewhat different but complementary security market spaces. BeyondTrust plans to integrate eEye’s Retina CS Vulnerability Management and Analytics solutions with its PowerBroker family of virtualization security products. The company claims that this will be the...
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Tweetminster, the media platform, has launched a free app for iOS so that people who must be plugged into the latest from the world of politics can do so as they are mobile. The app, which has just been approved by Apple, tracks the links and content most shared between expert users on Twitter....