Streaming music service MOG was officially acquired by audio hardware company Beats Electronics today, reports USA Today.
MOG is a subscription-based streaming music service that’s similar to Rdio, Rhapsody, and Spotify. It offers a free ad-supported version of the service, …
No. 3 computer manufacturer Dell has agreed to acquire networking applications company Quest Software for $2.4 billion to expand its business-facing capabilities, the company announced Monday morning.
Dell has been in talks to buy Quest since at least May. The …
You can once again forget about bankrupt Chinese company Proview. Apple has finally settled its long-running iPad trademark dispute with the company for $60 million, Bloomberg reports.
Apple purchased rights to the iPad name in China from Proview’s Taiwanese arm …
By now, everyone has heard about Google’s shiny new media streamer sphere, the Nexus Q, but not everyone has seen what it has to offer.
It seems that the company has embedded a cool little Easter egg feature in the …
The disruptive effect of Sony’s $380 million acquisition of Gaikai could send reverberations throughout the video game industry.
As such, the deal will give Sony several strategic options that will help it fight the console war. With cloud gaming, the …
Sony announced tonight that it will acquire the streaming video-game service Gaikai for $380 million. The deal officially closed on June 30, and Sony is purchasing the California-based company as part of a move to disrupt the gaming business.
The …
IBM has unveiled an augmented reality mobile app that lets consumers pan store shelves with their smartphones to receive personalized product tips, recommendations and coupons.
Reddit, Foursquare, Mozilla, and a number of other companies were hit with technical problems Saturday evening when a single “leap second” was added to the world’s atomic clocks. And so, the “leap second bug” was born.
Atomic clocks are the …
Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus was quiet for the past couple of months as Facebook went public and Zynga geared up for its big Unleashed event last week, where the massive social-game developer unveiled its latest social games. But afterward, …
Mobile is where the growth is in startups, venture capital portolios, and user activity, according to a post by Fred Wilson, the managing partner at venture capital firm Union Square Ventures and a frequent blogger.
But one of the problems …
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Some things in life we can’t choose: birth order, the weather, embarrassing family members, and for most of us, our bosses.
CEOs are the exception – they can choose the funding partners that become their board members, who are in …
Mark Zuckerberg giveth and he taketh away. Facebook users are reporting today that they can no longer see the real-time “Ticker” that describes their friends’ activities on the right side of the Facebook home page.
TechCrunch reported that the disappearance …
Raised on the Internet and versed in social media, today’s youngsters view the world in a different light than generations past. Here to serve and inspire these influential minds is #waywire, a New York-based startup that’s landed $1.75 million in …
Tim Bray, the Googler most famous for his prior role in editing the XML language, has set his eyes on a new challenge: eradicating usernames and passwords, at least as we know them today, from the Internet.
Bray, who landed …
Need some Tumblr love? Got $5? You’re good to go.
Tumblr introduced a new feature Thursday called Pinned Posts that gives members the option to pin one of their status updates — be it a text, photo, quote, link, chat, …
GameStop is catering to "hybrid gamers" as it expands its offering of Android tablets with Google's Nexus 7.
Private social network Path and lifestyle brand Nike have teamed up to make the road to a better you a tad more rewarding. The Nike FuelBand, a gadget you wear on your wrist to track your daily activity, now connects …
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg famously commented that a great engineer is worth a 100 average engineers (something every developer knows deep in their heart). He was talking about A-players, and in my opinion the worst thing any startup can do is …
Guest Post As the summer travel season heats up, more travelers are searching for special deals and last-minute bargains. It seems that travel startup sites are responding with improved performance and availability.
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Are you an expert Facebook marketer? If so, that could be bad news, because when it comes to Twitter, everything you know is wrong. Well, many things.
Buddy Media, the social media engagement company, recently completed a study of 320 …
