Daily Archives: December 29, 2012

APPLE’S Q1 PREVIEW: Near-Term Volatility Continuing (AAPL)

December 29, 2012
APPLE’S Q1 PREVIEW: Near-Term Volatility Continuing (AAPL)

AP AAPL 1Q13 Preview; Near-Term Volatility Continuing Walmart Discounting Apple Products: Gloom or Boom? Thoughts on Apple’s 6.4% Stock Drop See Also More Money Has Now Been Lost In Apple Stock Than In Hewlett-Packard And Research In Motion Combined CHART OF THE DAY: The Collapse Of Microsoft’s Monopoly Analyst: There Is ‘An Insatiable Appetite’...

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Proof That Facebook Copied One Of The Hottest Apps On The Planet And It Still Bombed (FB)

December 29, 2012
Proof That Facebook Copied One Of The Hottest Apps On The Planet And It Still Bombed (FB)

Screenshot See Also 17 New Ideas That Are Actually Worth Millions Science Stories That Rocked 2012 A Bunch Of Weird Stuff Washed Ashore This Year Facebook released a new iPhone app last week called Poke. Poke lets you send self-destructing photos, videos, and text messages to your Facebook friends. It’s remarkably similar to another...

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Our Favorite Instagram Photos Of 2012

December 29, 2012
Our Favorite Instagram Photos Of 2012

Email More Instagram/amazinggrayce 2012 was the easily the year of Instagram. Soon after Facebook bought the 13-person company for $1 billion, the number of Instagram users skyrocketed past the 100 million mark. With 100 million-plus users on board, Instagram was loaded with tons of great photos taken all around the world. Let’s take a...

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Insert Coin: Engadget Is Looking For Some Cool Crowdfunded Projects

December 29, 2012

Our brothers and sisters over at Engadget are holding their first red hot, super exciting conference called Expand in SF in March. The event will feature all the boring, old commercial hardware you could imagine including the latest from all the hardware greats but, more important, they’re also reaching out to a contingent dear...

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The 10 Best iOS And Android Games Of 2012

December 29, 2012
The 10 Best iOS And Android Games Of 2012

Editor’s note: Stephen Danos is the associate editor for the mobile app discovery site Appolicious. Follow him on Twitter @sdanos. This year’s most captivating games either pushed the envelope with state-of-the-art graphics and rich narratives or perfected already proven formulas for touch-based devices. The best titles also bridged the gap between casual and hardcore gamers. Some...

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In Case Anyone Cares, Here Are Leaked Shots Of The BlackBerry X10, RIM’s Upcoming BB10 QWERTY Handset

December 29, 2012
In Case Anyone Cares, Here Are Leaked Shots Of The BlackBerry X10, RIM’s Upcoming BB10 QWERTY Handset

Research In Motion is set to launch BlackBerry 10 and two handsets at the end of January. But at this point, there shouldn’t be many surprises. Nearly every detail of the platform and touchscreen phone has leaked already. And now details are surfacing of the BB10 QWERTY model, too. Meet the X10. BlackBerry 10...

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Facebook’s top 10 from 2012: A big acquisition, a mobile hangover, and, oh, yeah, an IPO

December 29, 2012
Facebook’s top 10 from 2012: A big acquisition, a mobile hangover, and, oh, yeah, an IPO

This was Facebook’s year. The social network made its debut on the public market, and it crossed the unprecedented one-billion-users mark. For many of the social network’s earliest employees, it was the stuff dreams are made of. But so much happened to make those two dreams into realities. And the realities weren’t always all...

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Why 2012 was the year we started to care about tech policy

December 29, 2012
Why 2012 was the year we started to care about tech policy

This year we woke up to the reality that much of U.S. tech policy is either deficient or horribly outdated. But if 2012 has taught us anything, it’s that the average, often faceless Internet user’s voice can make a difference like never before. To be better prepared to make such a difference going forward,...

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How to use dummy features to build your product out

December 29, 2012

Lots of times during our product development we face the question, “What’s the next feature that will be most valuable to our customers?” or “What feature do our customers want and don’t have?” Those questions are hard to answer and are most often dealt with by good analytics that you extract from the product...

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How Facebook Is Hunting Down And Deleting Fake Accounts (FB)

December 29, 2012

Michael Seto / BI Facebook’s Everson Earlier this year, in its Q2 2012 earnings report, Facebook disclosed that 4.8 percent of its accounts were either “duplicate” accounts (meaning that one person was operating more than one profile) or being used for nefarious purposes that violate Facebook’s rules. In Q3, however, Facebook didn’t give an...

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