AP Images False accusations have exacerbated the strained relationship between Greece and Macedonia, and it is all because of a Facebook post. On Sunday, a handful of Macedonia’s prominent media outlets reported that a young man of Macedonian decent, Aleksandar Samardziev, was beaten to death by members of the hyper-nationalist Greek political party Golden Dawn in...
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Could Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s next move involve her writing her first book? According to the Hollywood Reporter, it’s already happened and will be published starting next year by Alfred A. Knopf. Titled Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Sandberg’s book won’t be an autobiography about her life, but instead...
Windows 8 ships with a collection of applications, including a music tool, a weather app, and a Bing feature. The ‘built-in’ app selection has grown since we first saw Windows 8 last year, expanding to stable size. However, the apps have at times been light on features and polish, as Microsoft built them out...
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Seven months after being gobbled up by Apple, mobile app discovery engine Chomp is no more. Having integrated its guts into the App Store in iOS 6, Apple shuttered its acquisition’s legacy website and mobile apps earlier this week. Here’s how the facelift has changed iOS app discovery. The App Store certainly looks better. In...
YouTube’s five-year-old Content ID program, designed to minimize the copyright infringement inherent in accepting user-generated content, once epitomized corporate bullying of small-time creatives. The company took a decisive turn yesterday when it announced an appeals process for users whose content has been removed or demonetized, plus a new algorithm to identify bogus copyright claims....
Hewlett-Packard has proven yet again that just when you think it has hit absolute rock bottom, HP will prove you too optimistic. On Wednesday, HP stock sank to its lowest price in 10 years after telling investors that profits for the next fiscal year would limp in far below Wall Street expectations. CEO Meg...
We know that not every app is Angry Birds and not every app developer is Rovio. But just how tough are things for the workaday app developer? In a recent GigaOM Pro study (subscription required) of app developers, more than half of the respondents say they make less than $500 a month from their paid apps...