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Facebook’s highly anticipated and discussed press event on Tuesday saw Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announce Graph Search, its latest product.The new search tools that will let Facebook’s  1 billion users search the social network for information about people, photos, places and other interests. “Web search is designed to take any open-ended query and give you links that might have [...]

Dell, is considering going private and is in buyout talks with at least two private equity firms according to Bloomberg. Dell has lost over 33% of it’s value in the past year. Dell’s profits were down 34% year-over-year, revenue went down 7% year-over-year. “Tablets have dramatically changed the device landscape for PCs, not so much by ‘cannibalising’ PC sales, but by causing [...]

Rumors of a more affordable iPhone for emerging markets which were published by Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg earlier this week turned out to be incorrect based on comments allegedly made by Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller. Reuters issued an update Friday morning informing readers that it had withdrawn the story, which featured the headline “Apple exec dismisses cheaper [...]

Mozilla has released Firefox 18 for desktop client with an update to its Android app. The update for the desktop client, announced on Tuesday  includes Firefox’s new JavaScript compiler ionMonkey which “makes Web apps and games perform up to 25 percent faster”. Firefox made the announcement through a Blog post : Firefox also supports high-resolution Retina Display for Mac users to [...]

Chinese phone maker, Huawei unveiled the Ascend Mate and the Ascend D2 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Huawei Ascend Mate has a amazing 6.1 inch display powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor. It packs  an average 8 megapixel camera, a front-facing camera, and a microSD card slot. Equally impressive as the screen size, is the whopping 4050mAh battery, which the company  claims [...]

Microsoft has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses and upgrades for its new Windows 8 operating system in the 10 weeks since its launch according to Tammi Reller, chief financial and chief marketing officer of Windows, who announced the milestone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here’s what the Windows blog team had to say about it: At the 11th Annual J.P. Morgan Tech Forum at [...]

Pinterest bought Punchfork, a 2-year old recipe sharing and discovery website, for an undisclosed sum according to Punchfork’s founder and CEO Jeff Miller  in an e-mail to the website’s community. Punchfork will soon shut down its website, app and API. Here’s the full e-mail Miller sent to Punchfork’s users: Dear Punchfork Community, Today we are excited to share the news that [...]

WhatsApp had tweeted that they have processed 18 billion messages in one day on New Year’s Eve, out of which 7 billion messages were inbound and 11 billion messages outbound. WhatsApp surpassed 1 billion messages sent in a single day in November, 2011. Last August, it was handling 10 billion messages per day.

Out of  123.3 million people in the U.S. using smartphones in November 2012, 53.7% people used Android according to a study by ComScore,  26.9% of them are using Samsung devices. Apple’s iPhones accounted for 35% of all smartphone subscribers, with overall mobile share of 26.9%. “Smartphone Platform Market Share 123.3 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (53 percent mobile market [...]

Instagram lost almost a quarter of its daily users a week after it rolled out and then withdrew policy changes that incensed users who feared the photo-sharing service would use their pictures without compensation. Instagram, which Facebook bought for $715 million this year, saw the number of daily active users who accessed the service via Facebook bottom out at 12.4 million as of Friday, versus a [...]