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HTC And Nokia Troll Samsung
Feb 25, 2:47PM
As the classic saying goes, don’t hate the player, hate the game. But HTC and Nokia couldn’t help themselves yesterday during Samsung’s big Galaxy S5 reveal and took to Twitter for a bit of internet trolling. HTC, again, reminded its followers about a big reveal on March 25th. The President of HTC America threw down as well, tweeting the image comparing the gold Galaxy S5 to a… Read More
YPlan Brings Its Last-Minute Event Planner To San Francisco
Feb 25, 2:40PM
London-based YPlan, a mobile application that helps you find last-minute events taking place either that same day or in the very near future, has now arrived in San Francisco. The company previously expanded to the U.S. by launching in New York last fall, its second major market outside London. YPlan has also partnered with the Noise Pop music and film festival for its latest move, allowing… Read More
LinkedIn Mobile Usage Approaching A Majority — Now At 41%
Feb 25, 2:20PM
Veteran professional social network LinkedIn grew up on the desktop and is in the midst of retooling its 277 million-user strong business for a mobile-focused digital world. Today it said it’s now just nine percentage points off having its ‘mobile moment’ — aka the point when the proportion of users visiting the service via mobile devices tips into a majority. Speaking in… Read More
To The Surprise Of No One, BlackBerry CEO John Chen Would Take $19B For BBM
Feb 25, 2:16PM
BlackBerry’s CEO made the stunning revelation that he’d accept a $19 billion (read: the price paid for WhatsApp by Facebook) offer for BBM, the messaging service that makes up one small part of the Waterloo-based company with a market cap of $5.17 billion he currently runs. Chen dropped the bomb at MWC in an interview with CNBC, admitting he’d “definitely sell” at… Read More
The Xbox One To Get An Upgraded Twitch Integration On March 11
Feb 25, 2:06PM
The Xbox One is about to get a lot more social thanks to a supercharged Twitch experience. A March 11 Twitch update will bring a slew of new features including the ability to live stream video games and join a broadcasters’ party. You know, in case you would rather watch someone play a video game instead of actually playing it yourself. This feature set on-ups the PS4′s Twitch… Read More
iHeartRadio Taps BandPage To Give Artists Control Over Their Profile Info
Feb 25, 2:00PM
iHeartRadio, the streaming radio product owned by Clear Channel, has today announced integration with BandPage to bring artist profile data to the service. BandPage offers musicians and artists an easy way to create and sync profile websites, including widgets, to offer listeners access to bios, photos, tour dates, etc. BandPage currently has over 500,000 artists on the platform. Read More
WhatsApp's Koum Re-iterates: No Facebook Integration, Voice Calls Coming
Feb 25, 1:18PM
Was it the Crown Prince of Spain attending the interview between Jan Koum and Martin Varsavsky that made the event start over 45 minutes late? Or the fact that if you've just sold your company for $19 billion you can do what you like? That question went unanswered but when Koum and Varsavsky finally took the stage at Mobile World Congress, it was to once again re-iterate how little things will… Read More
Microsoft Is Interested In Buying Stake In Dailymotion
Feb 25, 1:18PM
Orange CEO Stéphane Richard talked with BFM Business at the Mobile World Congress about Dailymotion — as a reminder, the YouTube competitor is fully owned by Orange. The French telecom company would retain a majority stake. “We are still talking with a major American partner in particular,” Richard said. Then he dropped the name of this potential partner. “With Microsoft… Read More
Disney Launches Disney Movies Anywhere, An iTunes-Integrated App Where Fans Can Build Their Movie Library
Feb 25, 1:14PM
The Walt Disney Studios is launching a new app today for iOS devices and the web called Disney Movies Anywhere, giving users a place where they can watch the Disney, Pixar, and Marvel films that they've purchased, while also finding new ones. The app isn't intended as a competitor to digital content retailers like iTunes. In fact, Disney Movies Anywhere is integrated with iTunes, which… Read More
Samsung To Release A Galaxy S5 With An 8-Core Processor
Feb 25, 1:06PM
Samsung has quietly announced that there will be two variations of the Galaxy S5. One will run the quad-core Snapdragon 801 with a 2.5GHz clock speed along with another model powered by an octo-core Exynos SoC running at 2.1GHz. 8 cores. 2.1Ghz. All that power, all those cores. In the palm your sweaty little hands. The details are still on the light side but Samsung has done this in the past.… Read More
Netflix's Drone Delivery Video Shows A Different Side Of Amazon Prime Air's Vision Of The Future
Feb 25, 12:58PM
A recent internal Drone delivery video (via Engadget) that was made public on YouTube a few days ago shows the Netflix interpretation of how drone delivery might work – albeit with a more humorous and more dystopian take than Amazon’s highly polished vision of Prime Air. Suffice to say, in the Netflix parody video, side effects of home delivery by flying robot might include being… Read More
BlackBerry Introduces The Z3, It's First Foxconn Phone, And The Q20 QWERTY Handset
Feb 25, 12:33PM
BlackBerry has a couple of new smartphones in the offing, including the first sourced from new strategic partner Foxconn. The first Foxconn BlackBerry is the Z3, a Nokia-like touchscreen smartphone with rounded sides, a 5-inch qHD display, a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor, 1.5GB of RAM and 8GB of on board storage. The Z3 is targeted specifically at customers in Indonesia, which is where… Read More
Bye, Bye Demo Day — Ignite100 Evolves Accelerator Model After Raising £700K To Run Three New Programs
Feb 25, 12:20PM
Along with funding to enable it to run three new programs, UK accelerator Ignite100 is taking the opportunity to iterate the Y Combinator/Techstars model from which it originally took inspiration. Namely it's extending the length of each program to 4 months, enabling cohorts to overlap their stay by a month, and -- perhaps controversially -- ditching Demo Day. Read More
Casper Raises $1.6M To Offer A New Approach To Building And Selling Mattresses
Feb 25, 12:17PM
Casper, a startup that says it's developing a "vertically integrated" approach to the mattress industry, is announcing that it has raised $1.6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Lerer Ventures, with participation from Norwest Venture Partners, Crosslink Partners, Vaizra Investments, and Correlation Ventures. Read More
Quixey's New Functional Search Digs Into Apps Themselves To Serve You Direct Results
Feb 25, 12:02PM
Quixey -- the semantic app search engine that has raised some $74.2 million from the likes of Alibaba, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and others -- is raising the bar again in its bid to make apps and the data that they hold more discoverable. Today the startup is launching a new feature that it calls "Functional Search" -- which will let users not only connect with the right apps by keywords… Read More
Mobile Messaging App Line Claims 2M New Users In 24-Hour Period After WhatsApp Outage
Feb 25, 11:46AM
Mobile messaging platform Line, a WhatsApp rival that's very popular in Japan but is also gunning for global growth, has claimed it acquired two million new registered users in a 24 hour period after WhatsApp's recent service outage. Read More
Facebook Updates Its Group Discovery Page
Feb 25, 10:45AM
Facebook made good on recent promises to highlight its group features and unveiled an updated groups discovery page today. As reported by AllFacebook, the page now features suggestions for groups to join, as well as open and closed groups your friends are members of, and groups based near you. The social network also recently began encouraging administrators to start adding tags in order to make… Read More
Mt. Gox Implodes
Feb 25, 10:41AM
Mt. Gox, one of the first bitcoin exchanges, is down after an apparent long-term operation bled the company of 744,408 BTC - about $350 million at today's rate - over a period of years. Bitcoin is trading at about $500 today and Mt.Gox transactions have halted. Read More
Samsung Reportedly Tried To Suppress A Film Critical Of Its Safety Record
Feb 25, 10:28AM
While consumers around the world are debating the merits of Samsung's latest product roster, which debuted at the MWC in Barcelona yesterday, the company is facing accusations back in South Korea that it tried to suppress a film critical of its safety record. Read More
Ex-Googler-Founded Shape Security Picks Up Another $40M To Build Out Its "Botwall" For Businesses
Feb 25, 8:28AM
Shape Security -- the enterprise startup that emerged from stealth last month with an enterprise product that fights automated malware and bots by way of a firewall (or 'botwall' in its words) that shifts its shape depending on what is trying to scale it -- has picked up another $40 million in funding. Read More
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