Bing has identified the area of Chinese search market that it will target to expand its presence there. Interestingly, the search engine intends to go after searches from the country that are executed in English. According to Microsoft, that segment is estimated to be roughly 5% of the total Chinese search market. Why focus on that...
Daily Archives: September 17, 2012
KA-BOOOOOM: Apple Hits $700 (AAPL)
Associated Press Apple CEO Tim Cook After flirting with it during the trading day, Apple broke through and hit $700 in after-market trading this afternoon. The stock was driven by Apple announcing that it got 2 million pre-orders for the iPhone 5, the most pre-orders for an iPhone ever and double the previous record...
Tesla to unveil details of super charger next Monday night
Electric car maker Tesla Motors says it will unveil the technology and deployment plans for its super charger next Monday night. As we reported last year, Tesla has been planning to install a “super charger” station somewhere between Los Angeles and San Francisco that can add 150 miles of charge to Tesla cars in...
Grouper, the fresh dating startup named after an ugly fish, gets a handsome redesign
Grouper, no not that kind of grouper, is a relatively new entry in the dating space that brings together three guys and three girls (or all males/females) for drinks between separate groups of friends. A Grouper isn’t a blind date, but it’s not innocent, either. It’s like a serendipitous ice-breaker for all you single people out...
Apple’s iMessage Is Back Up* (AAPL)
Email More Dan Frommer, Business Insider See Also The Psychological Effects Of Waiting In Line For The iPhone 5 You’re Nuts If You’re Not Using VLC Media Player Here’s A Quick Guide To Picking The Best Carrier For Your iPhone 5 UPDATE: Everything appears to back to normal. Happy iMessaging. PREVIOUSLY: Apple’s iMessage service appears...
Does Apple’s New Lightning Connector Skirt EU Environmental Agreement?
Apple seems to be following the letter of the law of a 2009 European Union agreement designed to reduce environmental waste by standardizing its iPhone connectors to Micro-USB. But does the iPhone 5′s new Lightning connector comply with the spirit of the agreement? The 2009 agreement specifically urges signatories to make sure that every...
Google+ Buys A Photo Editor, Still Playing The Long Game
On Monday, Google SVP of Engineering Vic Gundotra posted a quietly confident Google+ message. Google+’s user numbers are well into the hundreds of millions, and Google bought photo app company. As Twitter and Facebook work hurriedly to reinvent their businesses, Google plugs along, stuffing Google+ into its dominant properties and adding more and more...
Shutterfly Acquires Penguin Digital, Makers Of Mobile Photo Print Shop App “MoPho”
Shutterfly, the photo and personal publishing company founded in 1999, has today acquired Penguin Digital, a company whose flagship product is an iPhone application called Mobile Photo Factory, or just “MoPho” for short. The app allows users to print out physical copies of photos saved in their iPhone’s camera roll and on other social networks like...
The Harvard Twins Who Couldn’t Stop Suing Mark Zuckerberg Are Starting A Site Like Facebook
Getty Images/Julien Hekimian Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss Five Best Monday Columns Obama Administration Not So Sure Attack in Benghazi Was Planned Zac Efron Has a Dirty Habit Voter Fraud, Video Replay, and ‘Revolution’ Panetta Will Lay Eyes on China’s Recently Reemerged Vice President See Also Appeals Court Tells Feds To Stop Deporting Witnesses This...
A Perfect Demonstration Of Facebook’s Inept Ad Sales Business (FB)
Facebook on IMAX at the Natural History Museaum. Last winter, a few weeks after Facebook formally announced plans to IPO and months before it actually would, the company came to New York and put on a huge show for the world’s big time ad buyers and media press. Facebook rented out an entire wing...