Have you ever imagined what fun it would be, if you could share your views and comments with friends and near ones, while you are watching your favorite television show? This is no longer a distant dream, as Bee TV has perfectly connected television viewing with social networking. So, for the first time in the [...]
If you’re a tech geek like me you undoubtedly follow Google – and you also probably know all the transformers by heart. By using Transformers as an allegory we can put Google’s transformation into context. Google has been acquiring companies, technology and people — aggressively, and now they are joining them all together to build [...]
Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion. To put this in perspective, this is 5x what Google paid for YouTube. Many industry analysts believe that Microsoft overpaid for the VoIP giant, especially since Skype was sold in 2009 for just $2.75 billion. Given the huge jump in price there was likely an unannounced bidding war. With [...]
Nokia is no longer the king of the market, and its market share has declined to 25%, what it was in 1997. Even though it is the world’s leading handset maker, its popularity has hit a new low, according to the new global phone handset figures. “Its market share declined 5.5% points year-on-year, and its [...]
With any small or large businesses; winning and losing are part of the game. It is really hard to find one company that either steadily grows or steadily decays in growth; there always will be bit of ups and downs on the path. But we are not either worried or talking about all those companies [...]
Founder Institute launches the next Silicon Valley semester, running from June 27th to September 27th, 2011. Apply today and the $50 admissions test processing fee will be waived. If you’re interested in the program, you’re invited to the Grad Night Out this Wednesday. Note: This will be the last semester which Adeo Ressi will personally [...]
There’s music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing of a rill; There’s music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. ~ Lord Byron And to carry to this echo further into the world unimaginable without computers are websites for online music [...]
The private eye has discovered that Android devices are no longer a safe haven for your personal information. The private eye is a German University – University of Ulm, which claims that more than 99% of all smartphones that run Google’s Android operating system are susceptible to mobile hackers. An unencrypted Wi-Fi network is the [...]
According to Gartner‘s new released data – One of the toughest challenges that Microsoft windows has to face is, the new growing market for Mac OSX and Linux OS. Statistically, the revenues from global operating systems was estimated to be $30.4 billion in 2010 out of which Microsoft asserts their first position with a 78.6 [...]
The big difference in modus-operandi are, that, Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook Inc; whereas Google is a search engine for any information. On prima-facie, there shouldn’t be any competition, as the businesses are different. But, it’s definitely not the case. According to a report, Facebook used [...]