Tag Archives : Business

Image by Axel Bührmann via Flickr Hey if Stephen Fry comes out to say that the lastest phone OS from Microsoft, the aptly named Windows 7 Smart Phone as ‘joy to play with’, then we’re listening. Remember Stephen Fry persuaded undoubtably some of us to jailbreak our iPhones. Microsoft are coming at this release all guns blazing and it’s full of Microsoft things to do, [...]

Facebook If you  log into your Facebook at a public computer, but forget to log out when you leave,  now, you don’t have to worry about people accessing your sensitive personal information and possibly wreaking  havoc by posing as you, thanks to the launch of a new feature that gives users the ability to see their overall account activity and remotely log out of active sessions. Remote [...]

Facebook Facebook Places is in the news since it launch yesterday, its popularity has rubbed off on Foursquare , who have yesterday seen a highest number of signups, thanks to Foursquare and its ilk, location based services have been around for quite some time now, even Yelp.com has joined the fray, nevertheless, this feature has now got tremendous exposure with Facebook’s 500 million user [...]

Apple has reportedly bought Poly9, a canada based online mapping company, and has relocated most of the firm’s employees to Apple’s Silicon Valley, California offices, If reports by Cyberpresse and The Sun are to be believed, Poly9 would be the second mapping company Apple purchased  after its acquisition of  Placebase, a company that produced a maps application programming interface [...]

iPhone Apple iPhone 4 antenna problem might have caused an all round resentment and outrage among the users and Apple followers but it has not given a boost to sales of eBay sellers selling bumper protector but also helped them in increasing the asking price. As  Apple acknowledged that holding the iPhone 4 might result in a diminished signal that could make it difficult to place and maintain [...]

Sky Digital Sky’s parent company British Sky Broadcasting (commonly abbreviated to BSkyB)  has announced the acquisition of Virgin Media Television or VMtv for 160 million pounds in an all cash deal, both companies have also  entered into a number of agreements providing for the broadcasting of certain Sky standard and high-definition channels on VMtv. BSkyB will initiall  pay 105 million [...]

Image via CrunchBase After the tremendous sales and success which Apple has seen since  iPhone launch helped  it overtook Microsoft to became world’s most valuable technology company and the the second largest company in the US after Exxon Mobile in market capitalization,  it  to become the most valuable technology company which was a mixture of persistent run-up in Apple shares and [...]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Tony Blair, the  former Prime Minister of UK  has been hired as a senior adviser by Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm which is promoted by Vinod Khosla who is  known as the brains behind Sun Microsystems and is one of Silicon Valley’s smartest investors. Khosla Ventures  is planning to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in green technology and is [...]

Image via Wikipedia Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking service for mobile devices, which also doubles up as a game and rewards users with virtual badges and mayorships for checking into various establishments has tied up with Dominos Pizza in UK .   Dominos, which promotes itself as the UK’s leading pizza delivery service, will offer free pizzas and discounts to Foursquare [...]

Image via CrunchBase Paypal, the electronic money transferring service which had recently launched Mobile Payments Library for iPhone has now extended it toGoogle’s Mobile OS Android, the Library lets apps developers add checkout functionality for physical goods and services to their apps online. eBay, which owns  Paypal  has also introduced a PayPal X Toolkit for Google App Engine, a [...]