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Groupon raises almost US$ 1 billion

Groupon raises almost US$ 1 billion

Groupon announced that it completed its campaign with investors to raise funds. The site will use the collective purchasing 950 million dollars obtained for improve its structure, expand their businesses and pay employees and investors. In December, in a document sent to the Trade Commission of the United States, the website revealed that the collection [...]
James Patterson, First to Cross 1million Mark for e-Books

James Patterson, First to Cross 1million Mark for e-Books

You may not rate James Patterson, author of thriller novels, very high on quality but you have to rate him very high on quantity. He has never been acclaimed for producing what is called “high literature”. His thriller novels are mostly about a psychologist named Alex Cross and follows the basic best seller formula in the tradition of Dan Brown. [...]
Try an American Eagle Jeans and Walk Out With a Smart Phone

Try an American Eagle Jeans and Walk Out With a Smart Phone

Companies who cater to the teen market always try to cash-in on the back-to-school sales. Teen retailer American Eagle Outfitters Inc. are no different and have come with an aggressive scheme to jump start their back-to-school denim sales. They are offering a free smart phone to anyone who tries one of their jeans. Like most generous offers this one [...]
Thought-Controlled Game System For In-Flight Entertainment

Thought-Controlled Game System For In-Flight Entertainment

There are a lot of people like me who are not a big fan of air travel. I think that is the biggest understatement. I seem to be particularly unlucky in this case because while flying I invariably end up next to one of those people who are too large for the small airline seats and smell like stale corn chips and farts. At times it becomes questionable [...]
From @googlemail to @gmail

From @googlemail to @gmail

UK users can finally stop feeling excluded and “turn” to have Gmail accounts, as well as the rest of the world. In October 2005, Google was forced to change the name of its mail service to Googlemail in the UK, due to a dispute over registration of trademarks with a financial research firm. Yesterday the company announced it will again [...]
Bit.ly has new options for Twitter users

Bit.ly has new options for Twitter users

The shortened URLs service Bit.ly debuted a new layout on Monday, with emphasis on tools for sharing links and analysis of access. The changes were organized by Bit.ly on four topics: Shorten, Share, Track and Manage. The shortening service is available from the main screen of the site, while the remaining options are offered to registered users (registration [...]
Apple: too many secrets are bad for business

Apple: too many secrets are bad for business

The great successes of Apple and the iPhone as IPAD, hide an important fact: the discretion of the company’s cost a limited presence in the corporate market. Essentially, the company accepts this situation in the business world in exchange for a marketing strategy that manipulates consumers brilliantly. The culture of secrecy is essential to Apple’s [...]
Cloud is the future

Cloud is the future

Orange Business Services, a division of corporate telecommunications company, announced it will launch twelve o’clock service cloud computing over the next 24 months, covering areas such as real-time applications, collaboration, security, infrastructure, network ready for cloud and vertical solutions for certain industries. According to the company, [...]
If you tweet at your work place, you’re a bad bad boy (or girl)!

If you tweet at your work place, you’re a bad bad boy (or girl)!

A research accomplished by Robert Half Technology reveals that 54% of the North American companies forbidden employees of using social networkss like Twitter and Facebook during the work. Published yesterday, the report of the specialized company in human resources also discovered that 19% of the companies allow the use of such services just for subjects [...]
TechCrunch50: Chyngle, Demopit Winner Creates an Awesome Facility for Stadiums

TechCrunch50: Chyngle, Demopit Winner Creates an Awesome Facility for Stadiums

Chyngle is one of Demopit winners at TechCrunch50 2009. Just like its snazzy name suggests, Chyngle allows you to find out your location and discover services and people nearby while you are in a stadium (say you are watching a football match in a football stadium) as its branded apps use GPS. This is really awesome and unique. It makes you really [...]