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LinkedIn Affirms Acquisition of News Reader Startup Pulse for $90 Million
0By: Ali Raza | April 12th, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
AllThingsD had previously reported that LinkedIn is going to acquire Pulse, a news reader startup. On Thursday, April 11th, LinkedIn affirmed that it had bought the social news reader and also described how the professional networking site will use Pulse’s ...
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Mozilla’s CEO Gary Kovacs to Give Up His Position Later in 2013
By: Jeff Stewart | April 12th, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
The man behind Mozilla’s mobile growth and the chief executive officer of the company, Gary Kovacs, has declared that he will give up his position later this year. The technology innovator from the Bay Area has made this decision after serving Mozilla for two and a half years. It is not clear when Kovacs will actually s...
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Poor Sales of Z10 in U.S. Cause Share Price of BlackBerry To Drop by More than 5 Percent
By: Jeff Stewart | April 12th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The renewed distrust of analysts with BlackBerry has once again disturbed the upward momentum of its share price and on Thursday, April 11, the Canadian smartphone manufacturer’s stocks saw a big decline of more than 5 percent during trading hours. According to the update, this was the biggest fall in share price that Black...
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Apple Reportedly Signs Foster + Partners to Redesign its Retail Stores Around the Globe
By: Jeff Stewart | April 12th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News
According to the latest report from Pocket-Lint, Apple has signed Foster + Partners, an architecture firm owned by British architect Norman Foster, to redesign its retail stores across the world. Foster + Partners is the architecture firm that is already working on the spaceship-like campus of Apple in order to cut its $5 billion ...
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Low iPhone Demand Drops Foxconn Sales by 19 Percent in First Quarter
By: Ali Raza | April 11th, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Reuters has reported that Apple’s long time partner and component supplier Foxconn was not able to post impressive sales in the first quarter of 2013, as the sales of the Taiwan-based company plunged down by 19 percent in contrast to the same period in 2012. ...
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Mobilicity, Public Mobile and Wind Mobile Pull Out of CWTA
By: Ali Raza | April 11th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
The dispute between the big and small telecom companies of Canada took a new turn on Wednesday, April 10, when the three smaller telecom carriers, Mobilicity, Public Mobile and
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Rogers’ BlackBerry Q10 will Run on 2600 MHz LTE Spectrum
By: Jeff Stewart | April 10th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Finally the long wait comes to an end now as BlackBerry is all set to make its BlackBerry Q10 with its physical QWERTY keyboard available to Canadian consumers by the end of April. It is expected that all major telecom carriers in Canada will offer the Q10 to their consumers. However,
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Pebble Finally Kicks Off Production of Coloured Variants of Their Smart Watch
By: Ali Raza | April 10th, 2013 | Android, Apple, Business, Gadgets, News, O Canada, Smartphones
After dispatching Pebble watches to all kickstarter backers who ordered the smart watch in its black colour, the Canadian company has finally shifted its focus to the production of coloured variants of the watch, a move that proved to be more complicated than initially anticipated. Pebble was initially unable to produce the diffe...
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Report says Apple and Yahoo are in Talks to Expand Their Association
By: Ali Raza | April 10th, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Apple and Yahoo are in active talks on the subject of increasing their association. Although, the WSJ’s report did not exactly mention what the increased partnership would include, it did highlight that Apple would like ...
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Dawalt says By Removing AppGratis from App Store, Apple has Destroyed Value in its Own Ecosystem
By: Jeff Stewart | April 10th, 2013 | Apple, Business, Mobile Apps, News
CEO Simon Dawalt and his team were shocked when they find out that Apple had removed AppGratis, a discover app, from its App Store. Later on Monday, April 8 Apple did give some clarification over the eradication of the app, after which Dawalt posted his statement...
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