Adobe spells out Flash-y plans for Android
Adobe may be leaving the flashy announcements to Nokia and Sony Ericsson this Mobile World Congress, but there are some plans pertaining to Flash that will impact a wide swatch of Android smartphones ...
Uber All Set To Pick Up New VC Money
Uber, formerly known as Uber Cab, a San Francisco based company backed by StumbleUpon co-founder Garrett Camp and Red Swoosh founder Travis Kalanick is close to raising a substantial new funding in a ...
Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia
A lot of things about Facebook have been impressive, even by the Silicon Valley standards. Almost no other Valley company has reached so many people around the world so quickly. Few Valley companies...
Apple to expand iPhone screen size to 4-inches
Apple reportedly will change the screen size of iPhone to 4-inch for its fifth generation iPhone to compete with the Google Android platform in the 4- to 7-inch smartphone market, according to upstrea...
IBM “Jeopardy” Challenge Day One Ends in a Tie
Day one of the three-day battle between the human brain and silicon on the game show “Jeopardy” ended in a tie. — The IBM supercomputer and human player, Brad Rutter, each had $5,000 on the scoreboa...
HP research shows mainstream media drive Twitter ‘trends’ to a surprising degree
Who gets to determine the big topics of conversation on social media? And how do they do it? Looking to find out, HP researchers recently examined how popular subjects get to be listed among the top...
3 Months To The First Million Users, Just 6 Weeks To The Second Million For Instagram
Back in late December of last year, we noted a huge milestone for photo-sharing app Instagram: a million users. As we noted at the time, remarkably, it took them only three months to hit the mark.
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google's web search results
We've been exploring different algorithms to detect content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. One of the signals we're exploring is explicit feedback from users.