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Hotel Booking Site Room 77 Raises $30 Million In New Funding Round
0By: Talha Bhatti | January 5th, 2013 | Business, News
Hotel search engine and booking site, Room 77, has a lot to celebrate this new year as the startup raised nearly $30 million in venture capital funding. The news was broken after details of a regulatory filing became public. The funding round included Expedia which was expected because early investors in the San Francisco-based startup includ...
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Samsung Once Again Guides U.S. Mobile Marketshare, While Apple Maintains Strong Growth
By: Ali Raza | January 4th, 2013 | Android, Apple, Business, Google, iOS, News, Smartphones
The worldwide leader of digital business analytics, comScore has just issued its report on U.S. mobile subscriber marketshare for the month of November 2012 and it depicts almost the same figures that we have come across in this company’s previous report for October 2012. Famous South Korean mobile manufacturer ...
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Gaze Control Technology From Tobii Technology Launching At CES 2013
By: Kevin Green | January 4th, 2013 | Business, Gadgets, News
As technology continues to advance the way people interact with their computers and laptops, some startups have also moved in innovative and more interactive directions. The keyboard gave way to the mouse which has now been partly replaced by touch screens. Multi touch based control is now in danger of being replaced by gesture recognition devices. Another contender for the future of computer inte...
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Leap Motion Makes A Deal With Asus To Bundle Their Gesture Recognition Device With High-end Laptops and Computers
By: Kevin Green | January 4th, 2013 | Business, Gadgets, News
Gesture control may be making its way into the main stream in the first part of 2013 as Leap Motion announced it had struck a deal with Taiwanese manufacturer Asus. The PC and laptop maker will be bundling its high end products with the hand gesture control functionality which can track hand ...
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YouTube Launches Mobile Remote Feature For Smartphones And Tablets
By: Kevin Green | January 4th, 2013 | Business, Google, Mobile Apps, News
Google owned YouTube has been making moves to become not on the top streaming site on the internet but also on your TV. The user generated content site announced on January 3 that it would be releasing a new feature that would allow users to turn their smartphones or other mobile devices into...
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Pinterest Buys Food Focused Punchfork
By: Kevin Green | January 4th, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
The popular digital pin-board, Pinterest, announced on January 3rd that it has purchased Punchfork. The newly acquired website is a very similar to Pinterest and allows users to post food related images including recipes and amazing pictures of various dishes. The major difference is that Pun...
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Google Works With Kia And Hyundai To Offer Integrated Mapping Services In Upcoming Car Models
By: Kevin Green | January 4th, 2013 | Business, Cars, Google, News
Google is not too far behind competitors Nokia and Apple as it takes aim at the automobile industry with its already established mapping services, The search giant announced on January 2 that they have finalized deals with two Korean car manufacturers. Google has partnered with Kia Motors ...
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Research In Motion Sells NewBay for $55 million to Synchronoss Technologies Inc.
By: Jeff Stewart | January 3rd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RM) seems to be quite busy with the launch of its upcoming flagship device BB10, which is now less than a month away (January 30, 2013). However, the latest update has revealed that the Waterloo-based company is taking care of loads of other things along with their preparations for the launch of BB10. Reports have made it known that RIM has just gi...
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Canada Sees Major Jump In Startup Investment
By: Talha Bhatti | January 3rd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
The global crash of financial markets caused Canadian startup financiers to stop investing in new ventures. In 2008 Canada ended up having the lowest level of venture-capital investment for the past ten years in more than a decade, a trend that continued for the next two years. All that seems to have changed in 2012 with a total of $1.5-billion of VC funding being pumped into startup firms located...
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Ooomf Goes Public With Its ‘Launch This Year’ Website To Help People Build Apps
By: Talha Bhatti | January 3rd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Ooomf is an app discovery platform which wants to help its users solve their biggest mobile-app related challenges. The Canadian startup’s CEO, Mikael Cho, has spent a year investigating what problems users face and is ready to unveil LaunchThisYear.com. The site will help both new and ...
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