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Email More Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bought Instagram swiftly over a weekend, seemingly on a whim. But it has proven to be a wise investment. According to ComScore, Instagram accounts for one in five of the monthly active mobile users Facebook now controls. (Note: These numbers do not take into account duplication between people...
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Earlier today, we reported on how a security researcher managed to collect countless phone numbers and their corresponding Facebook names with very little effort before the company could stop him. All he had to do was write an automated script to exploit some basic Facebook privacy settings. For its part, Facebook gave us this...
The Peruvian Deputy Minister for industry and small and medium size enterprise, Magalia Silva Velarde- Alavarez announced the Peruvian government is working to allocate $20million to help technology startups get off the ground. The fund will follow in the footsteps of Startup Chile -the Chilean government organization investing $40,000 dollars in entrepreneur from all over...
Today on Neowin, friend of TNW Brad Sams posted a number of Windows 8 training and explanation videos that detail how Microsoft intends to push its forthcoming operating system. Windows 8 is a radical redesign of the Windows brand. Therefore, to use it requires a new knowledge base, which calls for educational help to get people...
Sometimes I fear for the future of entrepreneurship in America. A stock market crash is a breath away from draining the cash hoards of popular venture capitalists, the Securities Exchange Commission could easily change its rules to cripple the startup ecosystem and we are one serious privacy breach away from Congress enacting Draconian laws...
Is a service pack still a service pack when it’s called by another name? For Windows 8, it might be. In a highly unusual move, Microsoft is now offering a “Windows 8 Client and Windows Server 2012 General Availability Cumulative Update” via Windows Update, that rolls up changes and improvements Microsoft has made to...
Your next suitcase might follow close at your heels as you make your way through the airport. Tell Roomba to clear out space in the closet. Built by a member of CargoCollective’s creative online community, Hop (think: bellhop) uses three built-in sensors that communicate via Bluetooth with your cellphone. Hop! follows your phone at...
Last week Sprint was interested in MetroPCS. This week it’s not. That’s what Bloomberg is reporting anyway. Apparently, after a board meeting this week, Sprint has decided to hold off on countering Deutsche Telekom’s bid to merge T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS and wait until more details about the proposed detail emerge, according to Bloomberg’s...