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Yahoo Acquires AdMovate to Boost its Ad Tech Platforms
0By: Jeff Stewart | July 25th, 2013 | Business, News
The share price of Yahoo is on the rise, but the display revenue of the multinational corporation during the second quarter of this year has slipped down by 12 percent for a year-over-year comparison. In addition to this, the search revenue of Yahoo also showed a 9 percent year-over-year decline, as it currently stands at 418 mill...
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Apple Buys Canadian Big Data Firm Locationary
By: Talha Bhatti | July 24th, 2013 | Apple, Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
According to AllThingsD, Apple has bought a Toronto based location data mapping startup called Locationary to improve their very unreliable mapping application. Apple users have been criticizing the mapping software for a number of years and it will be interesting to see if Locationary ...
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Samsung and Apple Continue Negotiations To Resolve Disputes
By: Talha Bhatti | July 24th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News
A series of face to face meetings and elusive negotiations have taken place between technology giants Samsung and Apple but there are no signs of settlements between the two parties yet reported iponecanada.ca. Apple and Samsung have remained involved in a series of conflicts over the last few years and it wi...
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BDC Venture Capital Injects A Total Of $1.5 Million Into 10 Canadian Startups
By: Talha Bhatti | July 22nd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
On July 15 BDC Venture Capital announced that they would be providing $1.5 million in funding for 10 Canadian startups that have recently completed accelerator programs. The Canadian VC is well known for its support of the Canadian startup scene with its $150,000 convertible notes fo...
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Latest Patent Indicates Apple Looking to Develop Future iPads, iPhones and Other Devices with Liquidmetal
By: Ali Raza | July 21st, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Apple is known for introducing new technologies and using new materials to produce first class products for its customers. It is because of this very reason we get to see or hear about a new technology or material from Apple every now and then which also makes Cupertino-based company’s devices different from others. Following th...
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Latest Canalys Report Predicts Smart Watch Shipments to Surpass 5 Million Unit Mark By Next Year
By: Ali Raza | July 21st, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Canalys has recently published its latest forecast report which states that the worldwide shipments of smart watches will surpass the 5 million unit mark by next year thanks to the Pebble smart watches, which has emerged as a prominent market leader after Sony in...
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Google’s Head of Business for China Dr John Liu Decides to Step Down
By: Ali Raza | July 21st, 2013 | Business, Google, News
According to the latest reports from TNW, Google’s head of business for China, Dr John Liu, is stepping down from his post in the company. Liu was the head of business at Google China since 2006 but after six year long relationship he decided to part ways with the search engine giant. Here is how TNW has reported the latest dev...
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Google Ready to Cut Off Ad Revenue of Pirate Sites
By: Ali Raza | July 21st, 2013 | Business, Google, News
Back in May, Google came up with a proposal that it would deprive pirate sites of ad revenue in order to hit them where it hurts the most: their wallets. Now The Guardian has reported that Google has decided to act on this proposal. Here is an excerpt from The Guardian’s report: “Websites offering pirated content...
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Biz Stone Recommends Facebook Launch Premium Service and Charge $10 Subscription Fee
By: Jeff Stewart | July 21st, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, came up with some interesting business advise for some one other than his very own micro blogging website. Stone spoke about rival social network, Facebook, and said the technology giant should think about launching a pr...
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Facebook to Acquire Some Staff Members and Certain Assets of UK-Based Software Firm Monoidics
By: Jeff Stewart | July 20th, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
Yahoo is not the only tech giant making purchases as popular social networking website Facebook has decided to obtain some employees and certain assets of the UK-based software verification development company,
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