In A Key Shift, Pinterest Is Leaving Palo Alto And Moving To San Francisco
After weeks of rumors, it's really happening: Pinterest, the visual interest-sharing network, has packed up its Palo Alto office and is moving to San Francisco. — Sarah Tavel, an international growt...
YouTube Android Player API finally bringing proper YouTube content to Android apps
Quick question — how many of you used the I/O 12 Android application to stream the live developer sessions from Google I/O? If you did, as it turns out, you were taking advantage of a brand new, as y...
Vevo Seeks New Financing
Vevo, the online music video company, is seeking to raise new equity financing, people familiar with the company's plans said, amid plans to expand its operations overseas. — Vevo hired Allen & Co. ...
Ex-Nokia staff to build MeeGo-based smartphones
A group of ex-Nokia staff and MeeGo enthusiasts has formed Jolla (Finnish for “dinghy"), a mobile startup with the aim of bringing new MeeGo devices to the market. According to its LinkedIn page, Jol...
Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World
As money floods into their market, and the stakes get ever higher, app makers are getting paranoid. Paranoid that competitors are buying traffic spikes, using porn to attract users, and spamming ever...
7.85-Inch iPad to Ramp Up Production in September at Foxconn Brazil
Bits of information about the rumored 7.85 “iPad Mini” continue to leak out. Japanese blog Macotakara now claims that the smaller iPad will be produced in Brazil and will ramp up production starting ...
That was quick. Facebook shuts down Face.com APIs, kills Klik app, enrages developers
Fresh from its acquisition by Facebook last month, Face.com is closing down its facial recognition APIs over the next 30 days. While such a move isn't that surprising, third-party developers …