Windows Phone 8 Apollo ...
A video detailing the new features of Windows Phone 8 Apollo — originally intended for Microsoft’s smartphone partners — has leaked into the hands of PocketNow editors. Yay! In my opinion, Windows Phone Mango is a solid platform that’s quicker and smoother than...comScore: As U.S. Smart...
comScore just released its monthly mobile numbers, which charts smartphone usage from U.S. consumers for the three month period ending in December 2011. For the period, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices, which is in line with the previous period’s usage....Why It’s Good News He...
Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase , the CEO of Avado.com , a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist . Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and founder of...
Showyou Rolls Out All-N...
Social video browsing app Showyou just launched version 3.0 of its iPad application, a major update with a ton of new features. Competing in a hot space with competitors like Fanhattan , Shelby.tv , Squrl , Vodio and others, Showyou offers a grid-like view for browsing the videos...Facebook’s S-1 And Th...
Facebook’s S-1 is finally out and we can now see how much stock Zuck, investors, employees and others own in the company. Facebook has raised a total of $2.4 billion in funding and seeks to raise as much as $5 billion in a public offering. Mark Zuckerberg is the largest shareholder...Microsoft Updates Kinec...
We’ve known for some time that Microsoft would be bringing official Kinect support to Windows this week, but one thing they kept quiet was the fact that they’d be debuting a new version of the hardware as well. It’s not tiny, as some hoped, or built into the bezel of a...
Stealth Startup Numecen...
Numecent , a stealth startup building a patented “cloudpaging” technology, just raised $2 million in Series A funding from undisclosed corporate investors. The $2 million tranche is a part of a larger $10 million funding round, and is in addition to the $7.5 million in seed...Extreme Startups Launch...
Not to be outdone by its southern neighbor, Canada has been hard at work on its own fleet of tech startup accelerators. Back in June, Montreal became the home to FounderFuel , Vancouver has GrowLab , and Toronto had Extreme University . Well, let’s clarify that: Back in November,...New Accelerator Launche...
Accelerators, Accelerator, Accelerators! There’s a rash of them appearing everywhere, and the latest is the Rockstart Accelerator , a new startup program aimed at Europe’s most promising startups that want to hit a global scale (but then don’t they all?). However, this one...