Well, that’s one way to force people to act right during the emotionally charged period surrounding the dissolution of a marriage. In modern breakups, often the presence of social media and dating apps makes moving on while simultaneously twisting the […]
Google on Thursday confirmed that in-page search firm Apture has been purchased for an undisclosed sum, a move that will likely bring the search platform into the Google Chrome web browser fold. Apture’s main piece of technology is a product […]
Content for mobile is proving to be a major growth area for traditional publishers, who are adapting the practice of optimizing their publications for e-readers, smartphones and other mobile devices at a breakneck pace. 85% of the magazines in the […]
Research in Motion (RIM) is investigating reports of BlackBerry delays, but has not confirmed any particular scope of delay nor any region specifically impacted by a new BlackBerry outage. The company tweeted roughly an hour ago: We’re getting reports that […]
Sometimes it seems the very best technical innovations are a) the absolute simplest and b) something you cannot believe someone hasn’t already invented before and that you are not using on a daily basis already. Enter Drinkify. Winner of the […]
GoogleTV has partnered up with a perhaps seemingly unlikely ally- adult video production company Vivid Entertainment- to bring 24 hours a day of streaming adult content to their app. Vivid.com subscribers with a Google TV set top box can now […]
Back in August, Reddit spun off its popular gift-exchange arm to a separate site, RedditGifts. At the time, the social aggregator took on the subreddit’s two mods as full-time employees, and now the newly-minted former subreddit is launching its first […]
If recent rumors are true Google could be preparing to give Comcast, DirecTV and other “pay TV” company’s a run for their money by launching a competing nationwide network. Google is currently building an ultra-fast fiber-optic network in Kansas City, […]
In an effort to lure more Amazon customers to its paid Prime membership program, Amazon has launched a book lending library for Amazon Prime subscribers. The service costs $79 per year (with discounted rates for students and moms) and entitles […]
Music streaming service MOG announced on Tuesday that their monthly average users base grew to 160,000 in October, a 264% increase. The company’s growth announcement comes just one month after MOG integrated their service with Facebook. MOG’s free service launched last […]
RealNetworks on Tuesday announced that they have hired former Adobe executive Thomas Nielsen as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, replacing Bob Kimball who left the company earlier this year. Neilsen formerly headed up Adobe’s Digital Imaging business unit which included […]
Yahoo! Inc. on Tuesday announced the acquisition of display advertising firm Interclick Inc. for $270 million. Under the agreement Interclick stockholders will receive $9 per share, 22 percent higher than the company’s closing price on Tuesday. The deal is expected […]
While Digg continues on its spectacular decline, rival Reddit seems to be racking up traffic each month and turning out impressive stats after impressive stats. Late last night/early today, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian tweeted about the traffic stats on the […]
While I was away from the internet for a hundred years and two weeks, one of the stories I briefly caught seemed to be the feel good Reddit story of the year. A redditor (who also like, won Jeopardy twice or something) […]
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