If you’ve ever wanted to speed through your tweets faster, Fluid Interaction‘s just-launched Twheel app may be exactly what you’re looking for. The company’s app turns your Twitter feed into a rotating wheel and claims to increase your “tweet consumption …
If you’re anything like me, conference calls are one of the more annoying aspects of your workday. Thankfully, enterprise-focused startup MobileDay wants to make at least one aspect of conference calls less unpleasant — the dial-in.
MobileDay, which is competing …
Online ad retargeting startup AdRoll has raised $15 million in its second-round of funding. It plans to expand the company and improving its technology, which allows companies to serve more relevant display ads.
AdRoll has somewhat cracked the code in …
Research in Motion investors didn’t like what they heard today at the struggling company’s annual shareholder meeting, with RIM’s share price down more than 5 percent Tuesday.
The BlackBerry maker’s stock price has been on a steep decline in the …
Google’s gorgeous new iPad app for its Google+ social network is now live in the App Store, the company announced today on its blog.
The company introduced the app for iPad at its recent I/O conference. And it’s a wonderful-looking …
In the face of growing competition, cloud storage startup Dropbox has doubled the size of its 50GB and 100GB Pro plans at no additional cost and debuted a new 500GB plan for those who need a ton of space, the …
A New Zealand judge has pushed back the extradition of Megaupload kingpin Kim Dotcom to March 2013, a move that will give him more time to prepare for an eventual trial in the U.S.
Dotcom’s contentious extradition hearing was scheduled …
Although it might pain some Apple fanboys, a clever new theme for jailbroken iPhones shows what would happen if the Metro design of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system landed on the iPhone.
Jailbreaking your iPhone opens the door to …
Updated at 2:57 p.m. PT with more information about the deal.
Enterprise cloud giant Salesforce will purchase “co-browsing” startup GoInstant for more than $70 million, the companies announced in a blog post.
The Wall Street Journal initially reported the deal …
Yahoo’s previously announced Genome ad product has now gone live, and it promises to empower companies with more accurate audience data and analytics.
Announced at Internet Week New York in mid-May, Genome is based on analysis software from Interclick, which …
Microsoft has agreed to acquire large-scale tablet-maker Perceptive Pixel, the company announced today at its Worldwide Partner Conference.
“The acquisition of PPI [Perceptive Pixel] allows us to draw on our complementary strengths, and we’re excited to accelerate this market evolution,” …
Microsoft has announced that it expects its upcoming Windows 8 OS will be available to consumers starting in “late October,” with manufacturers receiving Windows 8 in August to prep for the launch.
Speaking at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, Vice President …
Travel search site Kayak‘s long-delayed IPO looks like it will finally lift off, as the company filed an amended S-1 Monday morning that prices its shares at $23 to $25 a pop.
The eight-year-old flight-, hotel-, and car-reservation service originally …
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar was one of the high-profile names being thrown around in Yahoo’s search for a new CEO, but it turns out he’s not interested in the job.
A Hulu spokesperson sent us the following statement on the …
U.S. authorities want to give alleged Megaupload kingpin Kim Dotcom access to just a single 40-page document out of 22 million e-mails before his extradition hearing, according to Stuff.co.nz.
Dotcom has become a bit of an Internet folk hero as …
Popular social network Twitter will unveil significant changes to search and discovery as soon as today, according to a tweet by engineering manager Pankaj Gupta.
“Search & discovery in @twitter set to change forever after tmrw,” Gupta wrote on Twitter …
Facebook has invested in a 6,214-mile Asian undersea cable that will give better Internet connectivity to several countries, the BBC reports.
The investment could potentially help Facebook draw more users in South Asia, especially in places like Hong Kong, India, …
The market for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) companies will grow steadily in the next several years because of the potential for operational improvement and cost reduction, according to a just-released survey by Engine Yard.
Engine Yard competes heavily with Salesforce’s Force.com and …
Hundreds of thousands of people will likely be kicked off the Internet next week when the FBI shuts down servers hosting the “DNSChanger” virus.
The group behind the DNSChanger virus, which affected some 4 million computers around the world, was …
Apple will release a 7- or 8-inch iPad that will disrupt the low-end tablet market before the end of the year, a new Bloomberg report claims.
We’d heard previously that Apple was purchasing 7.1-inch screens for smaller iPads and later, …
