Amidst performance improvements to the latest update to Skype’s iOS apps, photo sharing – the most requested feature – has also been enabled. Images of any size taken with your iPad or iPhone (or any image from your photo library, I imagine) can be transferred via the Skype app. According to the company blog,...
GGV — backers of tech giants like Alibaba, Buddy Media, Pandora, Square and Tudou — is gearing up for another big rush of investment activity: today the firm is announcing the closing of a significant new fund, its fourth, totaling $625 million, which it will use for expansion-stage investments in tech companies in both...
A not-so-futuristic world in which drivers, cars and roads operate in a highly connected network of instantaneous data got one step closer to reality today. The scale of the project, managed by the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), is unprecedented. For the next 12 months, nearly 3,000 cars — operated by drivers...
Yahoo Finance In case you haven’t been paying attention, IBM‘s stock has been on a tear of late, more than doubling off the 2009 low. That may not sound particularly impressive–the market as a whole has doubled off the 2009 low–but IBM’s stock didn’t collapse the way the rest of the market did during...
Microsoft-owned Skype has today pushed new updates for its iOS apps on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, bringing new features which include the introduction of a long-awaited photo sharing feature, also tweaking them to reduce battery drain and improve navigation speed. In both the iPhone and iPad apps, Skype now allows users to send...
In its never-ending quest to deliver new features to the Amazon Web Services product portfolio, the online retailer has added a new storage service designed for archival and backup storage. AWS Glacier is cheap, slow and Amazon hopes startups find it the prefect place to put files that aren’t accessed very often. And if...
Fresh from its recent $50 million investment, Care.com is putting some that money to good use with the acquisition of US payroll company Breedlove Associates, which will now operate as a subsidiary of its new parent company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but with 7 million members in more than 15 countries, Care.com is intent on expanding its...
Samsung is planning a $3 billion to $4 billion overhaul of part of its chip-making plant in Austin, Texas. The company, one of the world’s largest chip manufacturers, is going to retrofit the factory for a potentially more profitable product. It’s going from memory chips to systems chips such as application processors. Samsung is...
Amazon has announced a licensing agreement which will see titles from ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series added to Prime Instant Video. Amazon Instant Video is a digital video streaming and download service that lets users rent, buy or subscribe to a growing range of video content. Launched in April last year, Prime Instant Video...
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