Streaming music startup Spotify will soon launch branded applications from AT&T, Intel, McDonald’s, Reebok, and more. The move will help the company find greater revenue possibilities.
Adding apps from big brands presents a great opportunity for Spotify to make more …
Coupon-junkies can soon skip the newspaper and instead get their fix from the News Feed — no manual clipping required.
Facebook has partially turned on its Offers program, a new initiative that lets brands and businesses disperse discounts and promotions …
Facebook acquired another mobile startup Friday, just in time for the rollout of its Facebook Offers feature. The newly purchased company, Tagtile, focuses on customer rewards and mobile marketing.
Tagtile helps physical stores connect to customers over smartphones. Businesses install …
Last year, Apple tried to have a court case thrown out from a group of angry parents whose children were racking up large iTunes bills from in-app purchases. Now, a District judge in California is saying no to Apple’s request …
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There is no doubt RIM’s fortunes have been receding of late. The share of BlackBerry smartphones in North America is plummeting (although still strong in other parts of the world) and revenues are down. Competition is fierce. Can new management …
Continuing efforts to push its new social network into the mainstream, Google will live stream this year’s Republican National Convention on Google+, the company announced in a blog post today.
Google+ will also serve as the official social platform for …
DEMO hits Silicon Valley on Tuesday!
We’ve got a blockbuster lineup of companies — about 80 of them — set to demonstrate new products.
We’ve also got a star lineup of investors, executives, and entrepreneurs to provide feedback. Others, including …
Intel unveiled an impressive list of specs for upcoming Windows 8 tablets at a conference in Beijing today.
The specifications are Intel’s blueprint for tablets that should be in consumers’ hands later this year. On paper, at least, the tablets …
Streaming music service Spotify hasn’t made many friends in the music industry, mostly because it’s bringing fewer paid subscribers to the table than record labels had anticipated. But, that isn’t stopping the startup from trying to pick up more funding.…
If you need proof that not everything that happens on Friday the 13th (today) is bad, then look no further than Microsoft’s Brandon Generator.
The Random Adventures of Brandon Generator, which launched today, is a four-part animated story done entirely …
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Until recently, talk about BYOD (bring-your-own-device) policies has centered on managing the juggernaut of employee smartphones in the workplace. But with tablet sales skyrocketing, a new trend is weaving itself into workplace mobility conversations: BYOT (bring-your-own-tablet).
The BYOT concept poses …
It took me 154 days, but I finally reached Prestige, the highest level in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer. I’m very proud of this achievement, although I have to admit that I lost my way to the top.…
Shortly after launching on Android and making headlines with its $1 billion acquisition by Facebook, the hot mobile photo sharing app Instagram has passed 40 million users, according to the ID count on Instagram’s API. That’s a 10 million user …
Groupon’s business stateside has been embroiled in an accounting scandal that cut the stock price in half. But its international operations are responsible for two-thirds of the company’s revenue. Yesterday the company announced that Marc Samwer, who along with his …
It was a bit of a surprise when former Research in Motion co-chief, Jim Balsillie, resigned from the company at the end of March, but a new report today offers some insight into his departure.
Balsillie was working on radically …
More details keep slowly leaking on Google’s upcoming cloud storage service, with diagram service Lucidtree accidentally confirming the name Google Drive, while also showing it will integrate with third-party services.
We first heard that Google would shortly launch a cloud …
If you’ve been by the websites of big names like ESPN, Rolling Stone or Victoria’s Secret (not guilty) then you’ve probably watched video powered by Ooyala’s white label service. Today the company is rolling out a new set of tools …
Collusion? What collusion? Apple last night denied the Department of Justice’s antitrust claims that it illegally fixed e-book prices with major publishers, which ultimately made e-books more expensive than they were prior to the launch of Apple’s iBookstore.
Apple is …
Apple released a second update to its form of Java today that will clean up “the most common variants” of the Flashback Trojan affecting Mac computers.
The Java update will not only clean up these variants, but will also disable …
Barnes & Noble beat out Amazon and Sony today by delivering the first E-Ink device with a built-in light, the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight. It may seem like a minor victory, but for E-Ink fanatics, the new Nook is …
