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Twitter has acquired Spindle, a social media centered start-up a local discovery startup which works on location and check-ins to find local places of interest near a user, Twitter has not surprisingly, shut down spindle, and plans to have the Spindle team work on Twitter’s local discovery service. “We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the [...]

Facebook now allows users to post pictures in comments. Facebook added a new camera button that enables users to reply to posts with pictures uploaded from their computers. The photo comment  feature is  in the process of being rolled out,  to both desktop and mobile versions. it will not however support animated GIFs unlike Google+. The change also comes a day before Facebook’s mysterious [...]

HTC officially unveiled it’s much rumoured Butterfly S smartphone on Wednesday at the expected launch event in Taiwan. HTC Butterfly carries the now almost standard 5-inch 1080p display, which is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor, the same one which is found in HTC One. It has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, expandable via microSD. Operating System is the latest [...]

Mark Zuckerberg  has been in Seoul, South Korea this week and earlier met with top executives including the company’s president Shin Jong Kyun and chairman Kun-hee Lee according to Bloomberg to discuss a partnership that would boost Facebook’s advertising sales on mobile phones. Facebook’s effort to be more mobile focused saw it release Facebook Home, which centres around [...]

Huawei was reportedly considering acquiring Nokia in it’s bid to help Huawei become a global leader in smartphone manufacturing according  an article  by the Financial Times. The buyout news boosted Nokia shares in U.S. markets which went up 41 cents, or 11%, to reach $4.10, during US mid day trading on Tuesday. Huawei quickly responded saying that it “has no plans to acquire Nokia”. The [...]

Huawei unveiled it’s latest Smartphone,  the Ascend P6 in London today, Huawei claims that P6 is ‘the world’s slimmest smartphone’. Huawei P6 is 6.18mm thin, it packs a quad core CPU clocked at 1.5GHz and 2 GB of RAM, it features a 4.7-inch display with a 720p resolution. “The HUAWEI Ascend P6 is a star among smartphones with its industry-leading design, high-quality [...]

Apple announced during the WWDC 2013 that it’s new streaming service  iTunes Radio would be coming to Apple TV, as part of the 5.4 beta to developers, Apple TV users can now stream music from the built in app with the same features which will be seen on iPhones running the iOS 7 beta. Apple TV users can create custom stations based on artists, genres, or song titles, the menus are just like [...]

Facebook has joined the hashtag fray,  which was a staple of Twitter, Tumblr, Pintrerest  as well as Facebook’s Instagram, it  introduced the hashtag feature on Wednesday that allows users to add the # symbol before a word to signify its topic. The topic would then be easily searchable by other users on Facebook. Hashtag feature will roll out over the next few weeks. Facebook says the new [...]

Yahoo has just  announced through a tweet on Wednesday that they have purchased GhostBird Software, the makers of advanced iOS photography apps, KitCam and PhotoForge and will be integrated with Flickr. GhostBird has said that no further development will be done on either app, and they don’t intend to support new versions of iOS in an announcement on their website. The app is getting removed [...]

Apple as was widely expected took the curtains off it’s rumoured iRadio service named  iTunes Radio (not iRadio), an Internet radio service carrying over 200 stations and a catalog of music from the iTunes Store, combined with  iTunes functionality, and Siri integration. iTunes Radio is available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Windows PC and Apple TV. iTunes Radio listeners get access to [...]