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PayPal Acquires Palo Alto-Based Startup Iron Pearl for an Undisclosed Amount
0By: Jeff Stewart | April 15th, 2013 | Business, News
The Global payments and money transfer giant, PayPal declared on Thursday, April 11th that it has acquired Palo Alto-based startup Iron Pearl, so it could assist the company surpassing the 123 million customers mark. President of PayPal, David Marcus, made t...
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Apple May Hold-Up Launch of Inexpensive iPhone, iPhone 5S and the Next Gen iPad Mini Because of Production Issues – Report
By: Jeff Stewart | April 15th, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, News
According to MacRumors, an analyst at KGI Securities named Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a report on Thursday, April 11, which claims that Apple may hold-up the launch of their inexpensive iPhone version, iPhone 5S and the next generation of iPad Mini with possible Retina Display because of some production issues that the California-ba...
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Mobile Sensor Startup Behav.io’s Team All Set to Join Google After Shutting Down Their Alpha
By: Ali Raza | April 15th, 2013 | Android, Business, Google, News, Smartphones
Knight Foundation backed Mobile sensor startup, Behav.io declared on Friday, April 12 that they are going to join Google, which is where its co-founder and CEO, Nadav Aharony used to work before he had started his company. The team behind the startup has made this decision after shutting down their alpha program that uses phones t...
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Largest BlackBerry Shareholder Prem Watsa is Still Confident About Company’s Future
By: Ali Raza | April 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry 10 started off well when the Waterloo-based company made it available to customers in Canada and the U.K. last February. Since then BlackBerry has been able to sell more than one million BlackBerry Z10 handsets. It was a remarkable feat for the Canadian manufacturer, as BlackBerry managed to do that in just two mon...
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Canada’s Wireless Industry Facing Major Setback As All Three Small Telecom Carriers Are Looking For Buyers
By: Ali Raza | April 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadians have always wished for a competitive and fair wireless industry but unfortunately it seems that their wish is not going to be fulfilled because the Dutch owners of Wind Mobile have put the company up for sale. A few weeks after that rumours started swirling in the wireless industry that Canada...
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BlackBerry says All Reports Suggesting Z10 Sales are Poor in US are “False and Misleading”
By: Ali Raza | April 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry’s stock price witnessed a decline of more than 5 percent on Thursday, April 11th after several analysts claimed that the latest Z10 all-touch smartphone from the Canadian company failed to lure customers in the United States. In fact, analyst Detwiler Fenton has even said that BlackBerry Z10 sales are so poor tha...
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French Minster Calls Removal of AppGratis from Apple’s App Store an “Extremely Brutal and Unilateral” Move
By: Ali Raza | April 15th, 2013 | Apple, Business, Mobile Apps, News
Apple recently removed the discovery app, AppGratis, from its App Store over the violation of its review guidelines. After the unexpected move the CEO of AppGratis, Simon Dawalt, was the first to take on Apple as he wrote in a blog post that the decision by the t...
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Ways to Avoid Social Media Blunders
By: Zain Nabi | April 15th, 2013 | Business, Social Media
Social media marketing is not a job of a trained professional having any exclusive set of expertise in a particular area, but that does not mean that anybody can carry out this task effectively. It is easy (not to mention fun) if you are willing to learn and serve some of your time in learning the industry trends so as to market your products/services through social media. While you l...
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Ways For Start-Ups To Build Trust
By: Zain Nabi | April 15th, 2013 | Business
As the number of start-ups all over the developing economies continues to grow, the number of projects getting shut down is also increasing. There is not just one reason behind this trend, but it has been observed by industry experts that many start-ups miss a few very crucial things when they plan out to create their own enterprise. Persistence, commitment and dedication on part of s...
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Apple Reportedly Ready to Ink First Deal for iRadio with Universal Music
By: Ali Raza | April 12th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News
Apple’s alleged music streaming service “iRadio” has once again made it in to the news as this time The Verge has reported that sources say the Cupertino-based company is ready to sign its first deal for music service with Universal Music, as early as next week. Here are the exact words from The Verge’s report: “Apple is...
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