Christopher Furlong/Getty Images In May, Facebook spent $80 million on one of its largest acquisitions yet, Karma. Karma was a gift buying startup that used Facebook to alert you of major upcoming dates in your friends’ lives (birthdays, weddings, graduations, etc). Today, Facebook’s use for Karma was made clear as it dove head-first into...
It’s been more than three months since Larry Ellison sent his one and only Tweet, a shot-across-the-bow at his old enemy SAP. He wrote: Oracle’s got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud today, SAP’s got nothin’ but SuccessFactors until 2020 — Larry Ellison (@larryellison) June 6, 2012 Business Insider talked to SAP’s Sven...
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As expected, Instagram today updated its native Android app to match the iOS update released earlier this week. You can download the latest version now from the official Google Play store. If you forget your Instagram password or username, all you have to do is tap the “Forgot Password?” link on the sign-in page,...
Today Facebook has announced something more important than you may realize: Facebook Gifts, and it’s happening just as we predicted. Facebook’s $80 million+ post-IPO acquisition of Karma was enough to raise questions as to what would happen next, considering that Facebook made it clear that this was not merely a talent acquisition. Now, the future of the Facebook may change. Long-term users...
For some time, the Mitt Rommey campaign was the beneficiary of a very odd domain redirect. Instead of the domain SomeECards.co sending visitors to SomeECards.com, a real website and service, those unlucky mistypers were sent to the official Mitt Romney campaign ‘About’ page. Who was behind the redirect? No one knows. As The Daily Dot reported...
User-supported Twitter alternative App.net has revealed the meat of its business plan. Founder Dalton Caldwell announced the App.net Developer Incentive Program on Thursday, with the goal of creating sustainable businesses for both the App.net platform and the developers building apps on it. Under the plan, starting October 1, App.net will distribute at least $20,000...
It was bound to happen at some point: Search.xxx, a new search engine from ICM Registry, the operator for .xxx domains, has made its debut. So why does it look so much like other search engines? Search.xxx is a surprisingly demure site that lets users search for their preferred brand of “content” based on sexual preference,...
Dumpster diving. That’s the secret behind a new sculpture of Steve Jobs. Early last year, Los Angeles artist XVALA, nee Jeff Hamilton, used trash collected from Jobs’ home to build a sculpture of the turtle-neck and mom jeans-wearing Mac guru, complete with iPhone in hand. That’s right, the artist picked through Jobs’ trash and...
Andreas Olofsson, the founder and CEO of Adapteva, had a problem. He had built a computer chip that could deliver the horsepower of a supercomputer on a smartphone or a tablet. His Epiphany chip design was manufactured and then placed on circuit boards used by the military, but at $10,000 for a board, most...