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PayPal has announced a new mobile SDK today to try to make it easier for developers to accept payments in iOS apps. “Developers should have the freedom to focus on innovating for their customers, not spending time worrying about handling the complex task of payments. As one of the largest, most trusted online payments service around the globe, nobody can grow with a developer’s business the [...]

Facebook today unveiled the much hyped and awaited major redesign to its News Feed at it’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Facebook  soon will have a bunch of new feeds for games, music, sports, photos, events, and news. It features bigger photos and videos, and the desktop version now has the same navigation as the mobile versions. Facebook provided more details in a Blog Post : Today [...]

Facebook announced yesterday that it has acquired of the Atlas Solutions marketer-side adserver business from Microsoft. The Facebook-Microsoft deal does not come as a surprise, it has been anticipated for weeks after AllThingsD reported that the companies were talking in December and Ad Age reported that the acquisition was imminent earlier this month. “Today’s marketing environment is [...]

European Union regulatory body is planning on fining Microsoft over browser choice on its Windows operating system according to a Reuters report. Microsoft was  penalized by EU few years ago and was forced to offer up “browser ballot” selections screens for downloading an alternative browser for consumers in the EU. Details on what Microsoft has done to anger the regulators are not clear,the Verge [...]

Apple has announced in a press release that more  one billion downloads of class lectures, quizzes and assignments were downloaded from iTunes U. “It’s inspiring to see what educators and students of all types are doing with iTunes U,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “With the incredible content offered on iTunes U, students can learn like [...]

Google has come out with and update to its YouTube app for iOS, the new features includes the Send to TV feature that Google originally debuted on Android devices last year November. The iOS app will enable users to send YouTube videos from their iOS devices to a Google TV, PS3, or Xbox and soon it would be coming to even more smart TVs this year.   “Have an iPhone or iPad and a Google TV? [...]

It’s payback time. UK judge who ruled against Apple and made the company to issue multiple statements stating that Samsung did not copy the design of the iPad has been hired on by Samsung to act as an expert in an ITC investigation according to FOSS Patents. According to Foss Patents, Samsung submitted a list of names of expert witnesses whom the company wishes to file Protective Order Subscriptions [...]

Microsoft launched its consumer focused version of Office 2013, known as Office 365 Home Premium in last week of January and today almost after a month it came out with the business versions of its Office 365 software. There are three different variants to choose from, Office 365 Small Business Premium, Office 365 Midsize Business, and Office 365 ProPlus, organizations have multiple options for obtaining [...]

Apple has filed a motion in support of gay marriage to the US Supreme Court  according to a report by Bloomberg. The specific group will argue that Proposition 8, a California law banning gay marriage, should be overturned. With this Apple joins the rank of other global companies such as including Intel, Facebook, EBay, Oracle Corp.,  Panasonic, Qualcomm,  Xerox Corp. and Zynga who are  in favour [...]

Reports that Google has been looking for real estate for physical stores may not be true after all.  While speaking at the Mobile World Congress Google Android chief Andy Rubin  says that the company “Google has no plans, and we have nothing to announce,” when asked about the retail stores. At the same roundtable discussion Jamie Rosenberg, vice president of Google Play told The Verge that [...]