Twitter May Soon Offer Video
Officially, Twitter doesn’t do video, relying instead on third-party services. That may soon change, according to Mike Isaac of AllThingsD, who reports that Twitter has just bought Vine, a tiny video-sharing startup. Today, if you want to tweet a video to your followers, you can post it on YouTube, Vimeo,…
A ‘want’ on Facebook could be just what your business ordered
Facebook is testing a new feature dubbed “collections” that lets users create wish lists of products by clicking on “want” or “collect” buttons. Some test pages sport a “collect” button, which lets users save an item to a collection called “products” and allows a user’s friends to see the activity…
BlackBerry PlayBook Disappears from Online Retailers
Canada is a land of mystery. Why does Rogers charge its customers so much? Is there really only one road? And where have all the BlackBerry PlayBooks gone? The last one, at least we think we’ve solved. Computerworld noted that the BlackBerry PlayBook is disappearing from online retailers. A quick…
Sprint still sees demand for phones with qwerty keyboards
Computerworld – Behold the qwerty physical keyboard. It just seems to hang in there with customers. Sprint announced Tuesday that it plans to sell the LG Mach smartphone with 4G LTE this fall, adding a second slider-style smartphone with a physical qwerty keyboard. The other is the Motorola Photon Q,…
Prices of Facebook stock since long-awaited IPO
Facebook’s stock has been down on 56 trading days, up on 42 and unchanged on two since its initial public offering. Facebook began trading publicly in mid-May following one of the most anticipated stock offerings in history. The IPO priced at $38, at the top of a projected range that Facebook had Although…
Facebook’s new retail push lets users hit ‘buy’
Facebook continues its push into retail.(Photo: NICHOLAS KAMM AFP/Getty Images)Story HighlightsFacebook is allowing 7 retailers to share product information via ‘Collections’Users can ‘like,’ ‘collect’ and ‘want’ when viewing a productActions will show up in Timeline 6:22PM EST October 9. 2012 – Facebook this week quietly started testing The news…
Former TiVo Executive Talks The Future of Television
For consumers watching television has become much easier over the last decade. No longer do you have to be placed right in front of your TV to watch your favorite television show during is specified time on the schedule. Now, viewers can use services like TiVo, or DVR functionality with…
Why is Samsung the only Android success story?
Google is not terribly open with their finances, particularly when it comes to all things mobile. However, we do know they spent a meager $50 million to acquire Android. How much it cost to transform Android into a iPhone clone rather than a Blackberry clone we cannot say. Google also spent…
Mars rover Curiosity checks in from the red planet on Foursquare
The first use of social media from another planet owes its origin not to a human, but to NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars Curiosity rover. Last Wednesday the rover, in the midst of its second month of a two-year exploratory mission on Mars, listed its location for the first time on the…
Jack Dorsey scales back at Twitter
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is once again stepping back from day-to-day involvement with the company. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Jack Dorsey is back to just one full-time job. Twitter’s once-exiled co-founder, who returned in mid-2011 to revitalize Twitter’s user experience, has stepped down from his operational role at the company….
