Google has privately invested as much as $200 million in social game developer Zynga. Zynga is best known for games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, which predominate on Facebook.
Zynga had expressed dissatisfaction with the terms Facebook enforced on the company, and were reported looking around for alternative platforms. Its collaboration with Yahoo was one step away, MSN's Game ...
Google has more to offer when you sign in to your Google Account. You can customize pages, view recommendations, and get more relevant search results.
For about an hour, FacebookFacebook's Like feature wasn't working at all, either on-site or off. Many websites depend on likes for incoming traffic, so outages like that can be big problems for a lot of people. Facebook moved very quickly to correct the problem.When the error occurred, anyone who liked something using the "Like" button on a website didn't see ...
Lately, group-buying sites and other companies that use discount-deals as the core of their business have become a red-hot trend, with Groupon spreading through cities around the world at a frantic pace and countless competitors and clones trying to catch some of the spotlight. Perhaps the reason for the sites’ traction is that the group-buying model is easy to understand.
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It's been about 90 days since the f8 Facebook Conference and the debut of OpenGraph, a platform consisting of publisher plugins, semantic markup and a developer API. Every new vehicle needs time for a shakedown drive, to bang out the kinks and to see if users can make something of it.
In point of fact, users have made something of ...
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A research group from the UAB Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering at the School of Engineering, led by Jose Lopez Vicario and Antoni Morell, took part in the development of a new system which locates unoccupied car park spaces and guides users to the nearest one.
The new network of sensors for the management ...
A federal judge granted class action status to a lawsuit against AT&T (NYSE:T) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) over Apple's locking of iPhones to the AT&T network. The suit consolidates several actions filed by iPhone buyers beginning in late 2007, a few months after the first Apple iPhone made its debut.
The original suit, which was filed in October 2007, claims consumers who signed ...
Facebook will help UK teens fight cyber abuse and bullying by deploying a panic button on its sites. Teens will be encouraged to click it when suspicious that they're being targeted for abuse.The button will actually connect the teens with resources hosted by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), an organization run in part by the UK ...
3Crowd, a startup that provides management tools for cloud-based services, is announcing the public availability of its platform, CrowdDirector.
Founded by BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, 3Crowd's management tools give enterprises greater controls over content delivery and other cloud services, enabling them to use multiple services at once.
Yesterday, I broke down Apple’s minute-long FaceTime commercial for iPhone 4, noting how it seemed almost as if Don Draper from the hit AMC show Mad Men had created it. Now Apple has four other 30-second spots for the iPhone 4 that it has just put into rotation on national television. And yes, they’re all about FaceTime too.
The four spots ...
Appolicious - Things are really heating up with ebook readers for Android; a release from Borders makes this the third week in a row we’ve seen a major ebook reader launch a product in the Android Market.
Appolicious - Need to scan an important document but aren’t near a business center? The free Genius Scan iPhone app is perfect for the business traveler who needs to scan on the fly.
Australia says that Google is guilty for violating the privacy of people by collecting data via unsecured WiFi networks. Unfortunately there is not much they can do.
Auto industry analysts get paid to issue reports, and most of them are vastly better at data analysis and number crunching than we’ll ever be.
That doesn’t mean, however, that sometimes their data isn’t misleading. It’s important to keep context in mind, and not miss the forest for the trees.
What’s got us thinking this way is a ...
AP - China confirmed Sunday that it renewed Google's license to operate after a monthslong standoff over Internet censorship, saying the company has pledged not to provide "lawbreaking content."
A federal judge will let prosecutors move forward in a monopolistic claim against Apple, AT&T as long as its a class action lawsuit.
Your startup can have developed the most amazing application ever, but if your customers can't figure out how to use it, then it's bound to be a flop. The startup IORAD hopes to address what it calls "the most painful part of deploying applications - user training" with a tool that makes creating a tutorial incredibly simple.
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Mashable hosted the first stop on its U.S. Summer Tour in Seattle last night. The event brought the Seattle community together for networking, an open bar, food and awesome prizes from our sponsors, which included iPads, airplane tickets and much more. We were also joined by Rachel Sklar, who interviewed event attendees and readers participating remotely in our Watchitoo live ...
Wal-Mart's chain of Sam's Club stores recently announced plans to partner with a lender to offer small-business loans of up to $25,000 for its members.
We recently wrote about the launch of a Y Combinator and TechStars-like startup incubator in Chicago, Excelerate Labs. The program’s nine fledgling startups are set to graduate from the inaugural session of the incubator in a few weeks. Here’s a brief look at the startups that will be graduating from the incubator.
FanGo Software Systems: FanGo produces an iPhone app ...