mashable — Apple is dominating the mobile PC space with 22.5% of the market share. The company sold more than 17.2 million mobile PCs in the first quarter of 2012 alone, according to a NPD DisplaySearch report. The quarterly report analyzes the global tablet, notebook and mini-notebook market. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company sits...
mashable — A former Manhattan store owner confessed Thursday morning to strangling 6-year-old Etan Katz in 1979 — the boy whose disappearance sparked the now-famous face on the milk carton. If you can’t remember the last time you saw someone’s face on a milk carton, or never even heard of the concept, there’s...
venturebeat — Google is rolling out a new section of its Transparency report today that provides detailed information about copyright infringement reports. “We believe that openness is crucial for the future of the Internet. When something gets in the way of the free flow of information, we believe there should be transparency around...
venturebeat — Rogue Amoeba, creator of the Airfoil Speakers Touch, an app which allows you to send and receive audio from an iPhone to many devices, was removed from Apple’s app store today. The reason? They don’t know. Airfoil Speakers Touch acted similarly to Apple’s own Airplay feature in iOS 5. The feature...
venturebeat — Facebook has launched a stand-alone camera application for the iPhone to help people share photos faster and easier on the massive social network, the company announced today. Although Facebook paid $1 billion to acquire photo-sharing service Instagram, the Facebook Camera app seems focused on bulk uploading your photos from your iPhone...
mashable — If you got married the day after your company went public and was valued at over $100 billion, wouldn’t you want the frontman of your favorite band to entertain guests at your wedding? Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer of pop punk band Green Day, reportedly performed at Facebook co-founder and...
mashable — Instagram’s jaw-dropping $1 billion price tag became a lot more understandable on Thursday with the release of Facebook Camera for iOS. The app — which was in development before the social network made its offer to buy Instagram about six weeks ago — gives us a glimpse at how Facebook was...
mashable — Do you want to network with some of the thought leaders in your industry? Then set your eyes on the collection of more than 70 events on Mashable’s new Events Board. Our events board goes beyond your standard business conferences and exhibitions — we showcase the most thoughtful, informative and...
techcrunch — Launched in 2009, Yahoo’s Connected TV was one of the first platforms to introduce an open app development kit (ADK) for Internet-capable TVs. Now it’s making those apps even more powerful, by allowing developers to build apps that integrate TV and mobile capabilities. At a meeting with developers Thursday evening, the...
venturebeat — Unlike Yahoo, AOL’s activist shareholders won’t be able to boot out the company’s CEO due to falsifying education information on a resume. Instead, Starboard Value LP, which owns 5.3 percent of AOL, decided to create a 96-page presentation outlining all of the missteps the company is currently making in regards to...
mashable — What happens when angry nerds go in hot pursuit of stolen Angry Birds? We’re about to find out over the course of this week. The Dudesons, a quad of crazy Finnish stuntment, have broken into Rovio headquarters and hijacked some of the Angry Birds — including a Rovio iPad that they...
techcrunch — Two big customer review platforms are teaming up: Bazaarvoice just announced that it has agreed to acquire PowerReviews. The agreement is for up to $31 million in cash, plus stock, bringing the total estimated value to be $151 million. Bazaarvoice says the acquisition should close before the end of July. The companies...
techcrunch — BetterWorks, the employee perks startup led by Los Angeles entrepreneur and investor Paige Craig, has told its customers that it will be shutting down May 31. The company offered tools to help businesses manage discounts and rewards programs for employees. In the past few months, BetterWorks still seemed to be rolling...
mashable — The Facebook Platform’s stated mission is to “build the social web.” With help from social app developers, it certainly met its goal. May 24 marks the fifth anniversary of Facebook Platform. The project first launched at the 2007 f8 conference to 70 app developers, like Washington Post and Digg. Fourteen...
venturebeat — Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang told analysts today just how important cloud graphics will be to the world. The company announced last week that its recently announced Kepler-based graphics chips are capable of cloud graphics. That means they can process graphics for multiple users in a data center and then...
techcrunch — Entrepreneurs, please start paying more attention to healthtech. Rather than trying to build the next billion-dollar mobile photo app, go lean and deep into bigger problems. As ZocDoc CEO Cyrus Massoumi said recently, healthtech is underrepresented among startups, with many (and founders are not alone) failing to recognize the size...
readwriteweb — The ownCloud project is adding features fast and furiously. The open-source file synchronization and sharing project announced the Milestone 4 release earlier this week, taking ownCloud in an interesting direction for corporate users. Forget Dropbox killer - ownCloud could be something even better, someday. We all know that where the...
mashable — 1. iBottleopener This budget, utilitarian option is a simple hard shell case with a rubberized finish. The back is completely sealed, so you don't have...
mashable — Note: This video is slightly NSFW-ish. Through 873 stock images, this video takes the “life flashed before my eyes” expression seriously. The creative video is an ad for Getty, made by the agency BBDO, which starts life at when two people fall in love, and ends with a boat party. Somewhere in...
techcrunch — Knowing how users react to Facebook’s product changes is crucial to the site making the right moves, so today it’s closed an acq-hire of part of design firm Bolt | Peters — specifically its leading man Nate Bolt. Those coming over will be joining Facebook’s user research team that’s headed...
techcrunch — This is guest post by Julia Szopa , program director at the blackbox.vc incubator in Silicon Valley which specialises in moving European startups into the US. It is not uncommon for European entrepreneurs to come to the Silicon Valley to learn how to launch globally. However, they often play...
mashable — Steve Jobs tributes may occasionally seem like gimmicks, attempts to ride a trend. But electronic musician Steve Aoki’s new track, called “Steve Jobs,” is an homage to a man he calls a “revolutionary.” “Whether I’m producing music or I’m playing out, whether I’m connecting with my fans through social media,...
mashable — Name: The Adventure Project Big Idea: The Adventure Project is an alternative funding organization that supports entrepreneurs in developing countries, with the goal to produce one million jobs within the next ten years. Why It’s Working: With a series of ambitious projects ranging from healthcare to hunger, the Adventure Project provides funding...
mashable — People managing a Facebook Page can now easily create a movie using photos, videos and status updates from their brands’ Timeline. Timeline Movie Maker from marketing agency Definition 6 spits out a chronological, one-minute clip after the browser tool “parses nostalgia,” “captures your good side” and “finds I-Remember-Whens” on...
googleblog.blogspot — We believe that openness is crucial for the future of the Internet. When something gets in the way of the free flow of information, we believe there should be transparency around what that block might be. So two years ago we launched the Transparency Report, showing when and what information...