Everything that Apple announced yesterday at WWDC
Today at the WWDC event Apple released a slew of announcements, covering a wide range of products. This post is a compendium of what they released, and promised to release today. For convenience, the order of this post mirrors the order of Apple’s event. The event was packed, as always, filling the 6,230-person capacity room. [...]
Official Google Blog: We’ve acquired Motorola Mobility
The phones in our pockets have become supercomputers that are changing the way we live. It’s now possible to do things we used to think were magic, or only possible on Star Trek—like get directions right from where we are standing; watch a video on YouTube; or take a picture and share the moment instantly [...]
GameStop to offer Android tablet and smartphone trade-ins, give you another excuse to upgrade
By Sean Buckley posted Apr 29th 2012 4:46AM If you’ve been looking for a reason to replace your aging device with something a tad more contemporary, your local pawnshop GameStop is happy to oblige. According to Gadget Experts, the games retailer is looking to bolster its Android offerings with Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Nexus S and Samsung Infuse 4Gtrade-ins at select GameStops this summer, expanding to all [...]
Instagram’s Small Workforce Legitimizes Other Small Start-Ups
Just about every month I get asked, “How many people work full-time for your company?” Part of me wants to brag about how lean we run Hitched, while another part of me doesn’t want to say because of the reactions I’ve received in the past. “Just two,” I reply, and nine times out of 10 [...]
Exclusive: Facebook Deal Nets Instagram CEO $400 Million
By Mike Isaac Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Facebook’s acquisition of the immensely popular photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion is far and away the largest acquisition in the history of the world’s largest social network. But for CEO Kevin Systrom and company, it’s a windfall payday like none other. CEO Systrom owns 40 percent of Instagram, according [...]
Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion, Turns Budding Rival Into Its Standalone Photo App
Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire mobile photo sharing app Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram will remain an independently branded standalone app that’s separate from Facebook, but the services will increase their ties to each other. The transaction should go through this quarter pending some standard closing procedures Last year, documents [...]
Instagram for Android: The good, the bad, the ugly
by Jaymar Cabebe To longtime Android users such as myself, the name Instagram might not mean much. Sure, we see the vignetted photos invading our Facebook and Twitter streams, and we notice the instagr.am links all over the place, but other than that, we don’t really get it. I mean, what is it, exactly? Is it just a [...]
Analyst sets $1,001 price target on Apple shares
NEW YORK (AP) — A Wall Street analyst is setting the highest price target yet for Apple shares, valuing them at $1,001 each, or 63 percent more than their current price. Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White says the Cupertino, Calif., company’s current stock pricedoes not reflect its rapid growth in the last years, nor its future growth prospects. He’s basing his price target on his [...]
Angry Birds Space Now Available for Download
by Stan Schroeder Fans of the Angry Birds franchise, take notice: the disgruntled feathery creatures have conquered space, and they’re out to show those dastardly pigs a lesson. The latest installment of this megapopular game, Angry Birds Space, is now available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices, as well as the Mac and PC. [...]
6 essential iPhone apps for your hike
By Katherine Gray Whether you’re hitting the trails in search of the perfect photo op or just exercising Fido, hiking can be a wonderfully relaxing and invigorating activity. A quick visit to your local outdoor equipment store makes it obvious that there are a ton of gadgets out there for the outdoor enthusiast, but the [...]