Facebook’s recent acquisition of the most popular photo-sharing application Instagram has 50 million users and adding up 5 million new users every week according to API. At the beginning of April Instagram had 30 million users however on April 13 it went up to 40 million users. It’s been an amazing achievement for an app [...]
World’s largest social networking site Facebook has launched a new life saving tool. Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg on ABC News’ “Good Morning America”. Facebook now allows U.S. and U.K. Users include a life story on their profile pages, and offers a link urging users to sign up for official organ donation [...]
Folks, Research In Motion has just launched Blackberry 10, the firms next-generation Operating System in the Blackberry World event 2012. RIM is previewing the platform on a completely new developer device and pressing its hopes for the future on the QNX-based software. RIM recently appointed Chief Executive said “We’re taking our time to make sure we get this right”. [...]
Blackberry Chief Executive Thorsten Heins has announced the new Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha Device at the Blackberry World event in Orlanda Florida. The new BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha is not a BlackBerry 10 Smartphone for end users nor does it run the final BlackBerry 10 software, but has been created just for developers to help [...]
Cupertino based Apple has expanded iTunes Match services to several additional countries including Greece, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia and Italy – as it slowly rolls out the music subscription service around the world. Several users in these countries have been required to agree to updated iTunes Store terms and conditions concerning the service while others can now [...]
Folks, Angry Birds has opened a theme park at at Finland’s Särkänniemi Adventure Park. The Angry Birds Land includes 12 rides adventure course and themed food outlets. It’s aimed at families and young children. The theme parks opens today, but finishing bits will continue until the beginning of June 2012 warn the park’s owners. The official opening will be [...]
Japan based electronic makers Nintendo has confirmed an upcoming ‘Midnight Purple’ Nintendo 3DS release. Nintendo has confirmed it will in fact launch the newly painted console with the Midnight Purple offering to become the fifth varyingly toned 3DS on the market. The device will be available in the U.S. on May 20th with a $169.99 (£104.76). It joins [...]
Financial institution firm Visa has confirmed that it will launch a digital wallet payment service this Autumn dubbed V.me. The service will use Near Field Communication (NFC) will initially be accessed through a web browser on PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones, and will launch to selected consumers in the UK, Spain and France. Consumers will be able [...]
Earlier Today we reported several ways used by Apple Inc to avoid federal taxes. An article from NYTimes reveals Apple’s strategy to avoid billions of dollars in taxes by setting up subsidiary companies in tax-free or low-tax states and countries. This humorous Comic from Joy of Tech take on the Apple tax story. What do you think? Sound off [...]