No one cries for Mark Zuckerberg, but Facebook is in an increasingly tough spot. To generate ad money, it must track all member communications, but to keep members, it can’t share too much information. Now security vendor McAfee wants to help Zuckerberg make that spread, for its own bottom line. Social Protection McAfee this...
Daily Archives: August 8, 2012
Why Starbucks is betting on Square
While Square is the hot mobile payment startup, Starbucks is no slouch, having recorded 60 million mobile transactions in the last year and a half with its smartphone app or nearly 2 percent of all transactions. It now has more than a million people a week paying with the Starbucks app. So why is Starbucks partnering with...
Valve plans to sell apps via Steam ranging from “creativity to productivity”
Everybody wants their own app store and cloud, and Valve is no different. The source of many of the greatest games in the past few years (Portal 1 and 2, people!), Valve’s Steam game platform has become renowned for its ease of use in buying games and the Source game engine is no slouch,...
Fab’s lesson: 30-40% of its traffic is mobile, but 95% of its mobile sales come from iOS devices
It’s exceptionally frustrating to hear tell of a new mobile application, only to fire up your Android or Windows Phone handset to learn that, too bad for you, the damn thing is iOS only. What nerve, you might think, to ignore the rest of us? However, as studies have intimated, the move might not...
How Much Will Windows 8 Matter to You?
At some point, you will need the next version of Windows. But that’s down the road a ways. The question Windows users need to ask before October 26 is whether you need Windows 8 right now? The answer begins with “that depends…” Fortunately, you may not have to worry about that question much longer....
Twitpic founder’s Heello reboots as a App.net-like real-time communication platform
Heello, the product of Twitpic founder Noah Everett appears to be re-launching the Twitter alternative as an open communication platform that is reminiscent, to us, of Dalton Caldwell’s App.net project. Heello launched back in August of 2010 as what some saw to be a minor clone of Twitter, but never really caught on. As of July of 2012,...
Charting the Underground Twitterverse [Infographic]
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How bad is the underground Twitter economy? According to security vendor Barracuda Labs, pretty bad. Barracuda has put together an infographic (see below) that looked at dealers who sell fake Twitter accounts and the various people who have stuffed their Twitter followers with fake users, including one guy running for president. Most of the time these fakes are...
HP incurs $8 billion Q3 impairment charge, as it tries to limit damage from 27,000 job cuts
As part of its ongoing restructuring plans, HP announced today that it has appointed Mike Nefkens to lead its Enterprise Services division, also appointing Jean-Jacques (JJ) Charhon as new COO of the division, telling investors that it will incur an $8 billion impairment charge in the third quarter of its fiscal year. John Visentin, who previously...
Visible Technologies updates its social media monitoring tool, more languages and multiple dashboards
On the same day social data company DataSift announced it was targeting Wall Street with two key finance hires and a New York office, Visible Technologies has rolled out a new version of its social media monitoring platform, with the world in mind. Visible is one of the leading social media monitoring platforms globally,...
How To Get $50 Off A New iPad (AAPL)
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