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Reports Indicates Intel Launching TV Service To Take On Apple
0By: Kevin Green | January 2nd, 2013 | Business, News
Janko Roettgers of GigaOm has dropped an interesting morsel of news on to the internet with his report that Intel has secret plan to launch a TV service t...
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Reddit Gets Whoping 37 billion Page Views In 2012
By: Kevin Green | January 2nd, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
Reddit has become a very popular social news site over the years and nothing proves it more than the recently announced statistics for 2012. The website has seen a tremendous jump in visitors over the past year and in 2012 Reddit has gotten 37 billion page views from 400 million unique visitors that have read 30 million posts on the news site. ...
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Instagram Launches Global Photostream For New Year Eve
By: Kevin Green | January 2nd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
Instagram wants to make the New Years celebrations extra special for their users and has created a desktop-optimized New Year's Eve photo stream. The feature will document the count down to the new years by putting all the images of their users in one place on the photo-sharing social network. The photo-stream was detailed in a blog post on...
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BlackBerry 10 Gets A Promotional Bump Through Major League Baseball
By: Kevin Green | January 2nd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Major League Baseball has not officially announced their association with the upcoming BlackBerry 10 from Research in Motion but on Thursday, December 28 users of the MLB.com website received an email that had a teaser promotion for BlackBerry 10. The email did not contain any thing new about the...
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Canadian Wireless Providers Look To Pre-Paid Services For Subscriber Growth
By: Talha Bhatti | January 1st, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian wireless providers are renewing their efforts to upgrade pay-as-you-go services in the country to attract young consumers because the demographic is thought to be the reason behind subscriber growth rates. Providers like Telus are expecting prepaid to be a key part of the next phase of growth in the sector. The prepaid marke...
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Storm8 Sees 2 Million Mobile Game Downloads on Christmas Day
By: Talha Bhatti | January 1st, 2013 | Business, Games, Mobile Apps
Mobile app developer Storm8 had a great Christmas this year as the company saw 2 million downloads of its games in one day. The holiday has become a big day for game developers thanks to strong sales of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. When users unwrap their new presents on Christmas they tend to hop on line and download applicat...
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Apple To Launch New eBook Service For Japan
By: Talha Bhatti | January 1st, 2013 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones, Tablets
A Japanese financial news outlet, Nikkei, has reported that California based Apple is launching an ebook service in Japan which will be stocked with titles from top Japanese publishers. The maker of the iPhone will begin the sale of the local content to be consum...
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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Leaves Amazon’s Board As Rumours Swirl He Is Selling A Startup To A Rival Firm
By: Jeff Stewart | December 31st, 2012 | Business, News
In a late Friday regulatory filing the leading online retailer, Amazon.com has made it known that entrepreneur Blake Krikorian has resigned from its board. Krikorian, who is the founder and the CEO of incubation firm known as id8 Group Productions Inc. as of January 2009, has spent just a little more than a year as a board member on Amazon’s pa...
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Chinese Courts Orders Apple To Compensate Local Authors With $165,000
By: Talha Bhatti | December 31st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
Apple received instructions from a Chinese court to pay eight Chinese writers and two companies 1.03 million yuan or $165,000 U.S. because the California company’s online store was allegedly selling their content without a license. The order was passed in the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court and it stated that the maker of...
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Yahoo Shuts Off Service In South Korea On December 31
By: Talha Bhatti | December 31st, 2012 | Business, News
Yahoo entered South Korea fifteen years ago and has now exiting the country on December 31 according to reports from Yonhap News Agency. The exact date of the move from the U.S. based technology company was announced at th...
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