T-Mobile today becomes the latest operator to leverage the popularity of free internet phone calls and texts in hopes of luring in more users around its brand. CleverConnect borrows from services like Skype and Rebtel with an offer of free VoIP calls and text to those who download and use the app, which is...
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A reader sent us the following chart and asked whether it was accurate. Office Of The Democratic Leader The chart, which, notably, was produced by the Office Of The Democratic Leader, shows the amount the U.S. debt expanded under each President since Reagan. It shows that the debt increased far more on a percentage...
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We’ve seen a lot of images of an (alleged) iPhone coming soon with a bigger screen, and some numbers out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP-owned market analysts, underscore how a bigger iPhone may not be coming a moment too soon. In the last 12 weeks, it found that Android-based smartphones have continued to...
There is little doubt where the gravity of innovation is. A glut of product announcements from portal and search giant Baidu, which is hosting its annual Baidu World event, shows China has seized upon western ideas and is taking them forward… Cloud: big spending, more space Baidu on Monday said it will spend 10 billion...
Chinese Internet giant Baidu is keeping the news flowing at its annual Baidu World Forum event and, fresh from unveiling its Baidu Explorer browser for Android, the search giant has revealed plans to invest $1.6 billion (10 billion yuan) to develop a cloud computing center to further its focus on mobile. Speaking at the...
Less than a month after JP Morgan put investments into two Rocket Internet-baked fashion sites modelled on Zappos — an undisclosed investment into Zalando and $45 million in Brazil’s Dafiti, the bank is taking an equity stake in a third Rocket Internet fashion business. Lamoda.ru in Russia, a site with 5 million unique users and 500,000 “loyal...
Committed to taking on Sky over premium movie rights, Netflix has taken another step forward in its attempts to take on the media giant with the news that it has partnered with free satellite TV service Freesat, providing access to unlimited films and TV shows via the company’s set-top boxes. The Telegraph preempted the official...
Fresh from opening its popular Nexus 7 tablet up to a bunch of new international markets, Google is said to be just six weeks away from launching a 3G-compatible version of its tablet device, according to Paul O’Brien at MoDaCo. O’Brien cites a “well placed insider” who informed him that Asus, Google’s manufacturing partner, is...