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Yahoo Acquires Web Browsing Startup Rockmelt for an Undisclosed Sum of Money
0By: Jeff Stewart | August 8th, 2013 | Business, News
It seems that Yahoo is not going to stop acquiring smaller companies any time soon and after getting hold of numerous businesses, CEO Marris Mayers still looks quite hungry for more tech and talent. This could be judged from the fact that Yahoo has gained another company, Roc...
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WordPress 3.6 AKA Oscar Makes Debut, Boasts New Theme, Improved Revisions and Other Features
By: Jeff Stewart | August 8th, 2013 | News
WordPress.org made it known on Thursday, August 1st that it has released the brand new WordPress 3.6. The latest version of WordPress features an improved revision browser and novel blog-centric theme. However, the most significant thing about the new WordPress 3.6 is that it is named “Jazz” after legendary jazz pianist Oscar...
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The Social Front Page Startup RebelMouse Secures $10.25 Million in Series A Funding Round
By: Jeff Stewart | August 8th, 2013 | Business, News
RebelMouse, a startup that shows updates of users from all social networks in one “social front page,” has made it known that it has successfully secured $10.25 million in a Series A round of funding. On this occasion, the startup has made the following post over on blog in which it has described the details of the rece...
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Google Rolls Out Brand New AdSense Unit in Beta to Adapt With Responsive Sites
By: Jeff Stewart | August 8th, 2013 | Business, Google, News
Every now and then Google rolls out an update of its various services, but it’s been quite some time now since we have heard that the search engine giant has made an update regarding its AdSense unit. Finally on July 31st, Google announced that it has launched a brand new responsive AdSense unit in beta. The purpose of launchi...
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Google Public Alert Now Warns Users in Japan about Landslides, Blizzards, Typhoons Along with Tsunamis and Earthquakes
By: Jeff Stewart | August 8th, 2013 | Google, News
Back in March, Google rolled out its Public Alerts system outside the US for the first time when it launched the service in Japan. Now this Alert system from Google is offering more information to users than just earthquakes and tsunamis news. The Mountain View-based company made it known through a blog post that now users of thi...
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Google Launches Beta Edition of Real-Time API for Analytics to Enable Developers to Take Programmatic Actions
By: Jeff Stewart | August 8th, 2013 | Google, News
On August 1st, search engine giant Google launched the beta version of its real-time API for Analytics. This beta version will now enable developers from across the globe to take action programmatically based on the real-time data, which they will gain from various Google services. Previously for two years real-time reporting of...
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Mothballed NASA Telescope May Get New Life
By: Zain Nabi | August 6th, 2013 | News
NASA has made another remarkable achievement by re-activating a mothballed telescope. According to a senior official of the US space agency, this telescope can help find the asteroids that can collide with the planet Earth any time. It took almost one year for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer commonly known as WISE to take the pictures of an all-sky map. These pictures were launche...
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Windows held responsible by Nokia for Unimpressive App Selection
By: Talha Bhatti | August 6th, 2013 | Business, News
The Nokia-Microsoft partnership has been going better than many had expected prior to the Finnish phone maker and the leading software company undergoing an agreement. Both were searching for a boost to their well-know, but rapidly deteriorating brand names, forcing the two to lend a hand to each other but after a few success stories, it seems like it may not be as smooth of a sail as it looked li...
