Clearly Verizon did not anticipate the demand for its iPhone. At least not as fast as it happened. Verizon Wireless had to halt the pre-order sales of the iPhone 17 hours only after it went live. The iPhone 4 broke the first sales record in Verizon in only two hours. The most impressive thing about [...]
This year companies will use M&A as an offensive weapon. Chief Financial Officers expect to see an increase in the number of mergers and acquisition especially in the software and telecommunications sectors. This is according to a survey that was conducted by BDO. The fourth annual “BDO Technology Outlook Survey” involved 100 CFOs of leading [...]
The Egypt and Yemen governments are the latest victims of the “Anonymous Hacktivists”. In its usual style the Anonymous group launched distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against some sites among them Egypt’s Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The DDoS attacks were carried out in support of the anti [...]
If you thought that the race on the smartphone space was too fast for Nokia, think again. Nokia has been the world’s biggest phone maker and it is not about to let that change. During the dedication of the company’s new office building in Silicon Valley, the company’s leadership promised that good things were in [...]
Want to get some good traffic flow to your site or are you pondering on what niche to focus on when you create a new site or blog? Try the health niche. Many people are interested in getting information about their health. This is so much so that a recent study by the Pew Internet [...]
Menlo Park may well be the next popular Bay Area for existing tech companies and startups too. Its neighbor to the south, Palo Alto is already a great income earner for the landlords who are reaping handsomely from the rise in rents occasioned by demand for office space in the area. Now all indications point [...]
Facebook has its own version of LinkedIn, Branchout. Branchout’s growth in this past month of January 2011 has been nothing short of phenomenal. The Facebook app was able to record a growth from 10,000 to a whole 250,000 monthly users. The company’s CEO Rick Marini was interviewed about this explosive growth at the TCTV studio. [...]
Rdio recently collected $17.5 million in funding from a new investor Mangrove Capital Partners. The round also saw some of the earlier backers of the company participate. They included Friis who co-founded the company, Skype and Atomico Ventures. Rdio is a social music startup from the founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. It [...]
Some two students at the Indiana University recently uncovered a weak point on the Facebook platform that allowed attackers to gain access to users’ data. According to the two students, Rui Wang and Zhou Li, there is a flaw on Facebook’s platform that allows a malicious site to pose as other websites and gain access [...]
Google is integrating its location related services on the Android platform. A few days ago Google announced that the Latitude service was going to be integrated with check-ins and loyalty categories. HotPot the company’s recommendations tool is also being expanded to become global. The Google Places, a service that allows people to rate and give [...]
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