While Memorial Day is a time for reverence, to honor those who have given their lives to military service for our great country, it is also a huge weekend for food and drink. Countless burgers will be grilled, steaks will … Read more »
Is PayPal on the Ropes?
The hits are coming fast and furious to PayPal in what's adding up to be the most serious threats to the payment system giant to date. Three of the most powerful banks in the U.S. – Bank of America N.A., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo – have come together to create clearXchange, a [...] Read more »
PayPal Sues Google & Former Execs Over Google Wallet
Well, that didn’t take long: shortly after Google’s announcement of its new mobile payment service, Google Wallet, PayPal sued the c… Read more »
Facebook Gets Roasted By Google, Twitter & Foursquare [VIDEO]
What do Twitter, Foursquare and Google have to say about Facebook? College Humor decided to enlist Gilbert Gottfried, Penn Jillette and Lisa Lampane… Read more »
New Web App Makes Sharing Code & Comments a Snap
Interaction design firm ZURB unveiled its newest web app, Chop, at RailsConf 2011. Chop is a code review app created to allow designers or devel… Read more »
Liberty Media Makes $1 Billion Bid to Acquire Barnes & Noble
Liberty Media, the conglomerate that owns Starz, Encore and the Atlanta Braves, has made a billion dollar bid to acquire Barnes & Noble. On… Read more »
Google Chrome: 160 Million Users & Counting
Google’s Chrome web browser has added 90 million active users in the past year, more than doubling its total user base. During a keynote… Read more »
iPhone Users: Type Once & Search Everywhere With Search Ninja
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st… Read more »
As Sony Recovers, It Faces Challenges From Hackers, Customers & Congress
By now you’ve probably heard about the cyber attack that took down the PlayStation Network and compromised user account information. The… Read more »
Indonesia To Chair ASEAN Open Source Initiative
The Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) held the ASEAN Workshop to Draft the Implementation Plans of Committee on Science and Technology (COST) in Bandung on May 3. In this workshop, the ASEAN [...] Related posts: Tencent’s Open Source QQ Mobile Browser 9.43am: Alan Chen, Senior Director Of Wireless R&D Dept at… Microblogs: The Third [...] Read more »
Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Holds Launch Parties Across Indonesia
Mozilla Indonesia Community, supported by Mozilla Foundation, has held several launch parties across major cities in Indonesia. One of the events was held in Bandung just 2 days ago. More than a hundred [...] Related posts: Multiply to launch office in Indonesia Multiply is set to open its Jakarta office in March… P&G and Yahoo [...] Read more »
Localmind Uses Foursquare & Facebook Checkins for Q&A Platform
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st… Read more »
Group Video Calling Comes to iPhone & Android in Fring Beta Test
Fring, a mobile application offering VoIP calling and chat, is expanding its video calling feature released last year with a private beta build… Read more »
YouTube Video of the Day: Invisible Instruments Can’t Be Seen To Be Believed
Forget the clunky, borderline humiliating one-man-bands of old: Check out Tim Soo’s rendition of Bruno Mars’s “Just The Way You Are… Read more »
Google’s +1, Windows 7 Stats & Blogger Redesign: This Morning’s Top Stories
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world… Read more »