Today, the MLB announced that it would be launching support for Apple’s Passbook with four ball clubs: The New York Mets, San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox and Kansas City Royals. I had a chance to roll out to ATT Park in San Francisco today to try the experience out and chat with the...
It’s been a week since SingTel reemphasised its commitment to further its mobile content push, and the Singapore-based telecom giant has continued its acquisition spree after laying down $26.5 million to acquire Pixable, a New York-based ‘mobile photo inbox’ app with more than 4 million users. The deal is another in a busy week or so that...
Pixable, a three-year-old startup launched by former MIT guys, caught my attention for the way it smartly used machine learning to aggregate social pictures for users, helping surface the most interesting stuff from the people they care about. The service caught on with 4 million users, who stayed engaged with Pixable’s mobile app at...
Aaron Greenspan, a programmer and web entrepreneur who was a contemporary of Mark Zuckerberg’s while the two were students at Harvard University, has released a new batch of instant message conversations that allegedly took place between himself and Zuckerberg in 2004. Though Greenspan has been less recognized in the press than the Winklevoss twins,...
After falling behind Facebook in online display advertising revenue, Google is back on top. According to a new report from research firm eMarketer, the search giant is expected to earn $2.31 billion in U.S. display ad revenue, up 38.5 percent from last year. Facebook, on the other hand, will bring in $2.16 billion, up...
Singaporean telecommunications giant SingTel has acquired intelligent, social photo aggregator Pixable for $26.5 million. The company develops sleek social photo creation, aggregation, and categorization tools. Pixable’s Photofeed Facebook app and companion mobile apps intelligently sort and categorize your friends’ Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Flickr photos, as well as Facebook, Vimeo, and YouTube videos. The company, which...
The emoticon (a portmanteau of emotion and icon) is a pictorial representation of one’s apparent current facial expression by using punctuation marks and letters. It was first typed in a message on September 19, 1982. As a result, the emoticon turns 30 years old today. Happy Birthday! The emoticon was born on the World...
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Apple launched iOS 6, its new operating system for iPhones and iPads today. There are a ton of new features, but the most important ones are the new Maps and Facebook integration. Here’s a quick video demo that shows you how it works. lt;divgt;Please enable Javascript to watch this videolt;/divgt; Produced by Daniel Goodman...
Think Computer Aaron Greenspan was a Harvard acquaintance of Mark Zuckerberg’s. Aaron Greenspan, a Harvard acquaintance of Mark Zuckerberg’s, has published never-before-seen IMs allegedly written by Greenspan and Facebook’s co-founder over a six-month period in 2004. The IMs cover a range of topics including Facebook’s launch, its similarity to Greenspan’s company, HouseSYSTEM, and Zuckerberg’s...