Social networks have come some way in this era of Facebook’s global dominance (barring China and Russia), and the sheer scope of their range and potential was shown at Echelon 2012 in Singapore where Thailand-based, construction-focused network Builk won the Startup Marketplace contest. Competing against nine other Asia-based entrants, Builk won the judges out...
LightSpeed, a company promising to help physical retailers adapt to the digital age, has raised $30 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners. This is one of those investments where Accel finds an already-successful company that has been bootstrapping for several years, if not longer. (The most recent announcement was Qualtrics, a 10-year-old...
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When Facebook launched its Camera app, many of us noticed that when it was displayed on your home screen, it simply said “Camera”. How could Apple let them get away with that, as its the same name as their own built-in app? Looks like that changed today in a pretty hefty update: • More...
In the next 12 months, Apple’s popular virtual assistant Siri will start conversing with us through our car speakers. Among the many new iOS 6 features Apple announced at WWDC was Siri’s new Eyes Free feature, which will essentially replicate the iPhone’s Siri button on the car steering wheel. Automakers are lining up to...
From the next-generation MacBook Pro to Flyover (aka, 3D maps), Apple announced a ton of cool new stuff during its 113-minute long WWDC keynote. Watch our quick 60-second mashup of the keynote below for the most important products and features that were unveiled today: object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ id=”ooyalaPlayer_3y6yg_h3cadmda” width=”618″ height=”347″ codebase=”http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab”param name=”movie” value=”http://player.ooyala.com/player.swf?embedCode=t3cTYxNTomEMHlZdAWsWABGfT1SH7m7Eversion=2″ /param name=”bgcolor”...
Apple Design has always been a critical competitive advantage for Apple. At this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference, as Daring Fireball’s Josh Gruber noted, Apple moved its annual Design Awards from its usual Wednesday evening time slot, towards the end of the conference, to Monday afternoon. That strikes us as a pretty deliberate move to...
Today’s WWDC keynote will likely go down in history for a couple of reasons. First, there was a massive amount of new product and feature releases, most notably that svelte MacBook Pro. But more than that, it was the first WWDC in quite some time in which Steve Jobs did not take to the...
As we’re playing around with iOS 6, we are enjoying the new look of the Maps app, sans Google. There’s one important feature that seems to be missing though: transit directions. While this is the first beta version of iOS 6, when you try to pull up public transportation directions, you’re shown a screen...
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