Facebook has seen its rapid assimilation of Earth's population start to cool in recent years. The areas where it's still exploding are, interestingly enough, some of the areas with the least access to technology: Africa, the Middle East, and India.
WeHostels responds to high international demand by adding four new languages and two new currencies into its mobile app for booking budget accommodation.
“This innovative idea for shaking up the financial services sector while helping startups in a practical way has caught the eye of many new businesses already," said Branson.
Interestingly, the articles acknowledge a political tinge to the recent spanking Apple has been taking in China, saying that Chinese networking and mobile companies Huawei and ZTE "have long been restricted in the US markets under security and other accusations."
After being Amazon.com's best-selling laptop for 149 days straight, Google is taking its Chromebook show on the road, both internationally and at home.
Twilio Fund Europe 2013 will invest in early-stage European startups that make creative use of Twilio's API.
A look at the most viewed articles on Wikipedia in 2012, broken down by language.
Hungry Globetrotter's subscription boxes of ingredients highlight an international culinary destination each month.
Mobile banking company m-Via has raised $17M in funding and changed its name to Boom Financial.
Boom provides an online financial platform for people without bank accounts. It primarily serves immigrant families and allows them to save, share, and spend …
Investment firm BV Capital launched a global venture platform today, unifying its four international funds under one heading and rebranding itself as E.ventures. The integration is in an effort to emphasize the firm’s global perspective and promote international collaboration between …
It seems like Facebook’s App Center is getting some global love. The social network’s marketplace is officially open to all users in the U.S. and seven other countries, and it will soon expand to seven more countries with new, translated …
Amazon may be prepping two new tablets for its impending Kindle Fire revamp, both of which are said to have metal casing, instead of the traditional plastic.
Recently, it was reported that Amazon would release the Kindle Fire 2 on …
Bonjour, Amazon App Store! The e-commerce company announced today that developers will soon be able to sell their apps in the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany.
The Amazon App Store, which currently serves both the company’s own Kindle Fire …
Startup Weekend, the household name in hackathons, has expanded its operations to a much wider international audience. Although the organization has for some time been conducting hackathons around the world, it is now opening offices in two non-U.S. locations: London …
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 …
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Ever since I became an academic six years ago, I have been one of the biggest critics of U.S. competitiveness policies. I documented, for example, that we had our data wrong when it came to India and China’s advantages in …
Facebook is aiming to boost international usage with the debut of a new “Facebook for Every Phone” app, which offers full access to the social network on over 2,500 mobile phones across the globe. The company’s mobile team announced the …
In an effort to increase global outreach, microblogging platform Twitter has added 13 countries and 6 cities to its localized trending topics list today and announced plans to roll out integrated translations within tweets.
Twitter’s trending list tracks keywords within …
