Kevin Smith, Business Insider See Also Twitter Unveils New Design On Today Show OH NO: Twitter Has Ruined Its iPad App 13 Underrated Apps You Need To Download Right Now Twitter CEO Dick Costello, unveiled a new design for its entire platform on the Today Show. Twitter focused on revamping its iPad, iPhone, NS Android...
Kobo has closed a partnership with the Booksellers Association of the UK Ireland to make its e-readers available in 3,000 stores, including 1,000 independent bookshops. As you may know, Kobo boasts over 10 million registered users worldwide. It serves over 14,000 booksellers in 12 countries, and is working on expanding its international presence through partnerships to...
In a new attempt to crack the smartphone market, Intel is powering the latest Motorola phone that runs Google Android 4.0. At a press event in London on Tuesday, the two companies unveiled the Motorola Razr i, a carbon copy of the Razr M announced earlier this month with one key exception: Qualcomm’s 1.5...
Luxury Retreats, a villa rental network founded in 1999, has just raised $5 million in capital led by iNovia Capital. According to the release, funding was needed to “strengthen the company’s balance sheet” and provide additional resources to grow. Given that this is a service that provides “personalized villa vacations” to the super-rich, we’ll forgive you...
Adam and Eve. Sonny and Cher. Jobs and Wozniak. Legendary partners all. Sometimes even the most dedicated, uber-competent entrepreneur doesn’t have everything it takes to ensure startup success. That’s when you need that “perfect partner.” But how do you find the right one? Finding that ideal startup partner can be as elusive as finding...
Businesses are subscribing to software, storage and computing power delivered over the Internet at a jaw-dropping pace, Over the next five years, global spending on cloud-computing services will increase at a pace five times greater than the growth of the information technology (IT) industry as a whole. To survive in this new landscape, technology...
A day after it was reported that it would launch the successor to its popular Galaxy S III at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next year, Samsung has taken to its official Twitter account to put an end to rumors of a Galaxy S4 unveiling early next year. The tweet, which was posted to...
File in “Silicon Valley Things That Are Amazing/Ridiculous”*: Apparently free iPhones and food aren’t the only cultural changes being enacted in Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo!® … The new head honcho tweeted this Instagram image earlier today, of a disenfranchised ® peg, formerly of a campus Yahoo! logo. Mayer provided an explanation, “One of our new...
Samsung Electronics on Tuesday announced that it has begun production of 2GB LPDDR3 (low power double-data-rate 3) mobile memory using a 30 nanometer production scale, an industry first that should bring bandwidth levels equal to that of current-generation PCs to mobile devices when they arrive next year. The LPDDR3 package is stacked with four...
I can’t imagine someone being able to watch every keystroke as I write a post like this, but author Silvia Hartmann is writing a novel, and is welcoming you to watch her progress. Live and in real-time. Using a public Google Document, Hartmann is typing away on “The Dragon Lords”, and the whole idea...