Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan has recently visited tablet giants Apple, Google and Microsoft amidst government plans to purchase 10.6 million tablets in a bid to modernize Turkish Schooling. The move is part of something known as the FAITH project, a Turkish acronym which translates as ‘Movement of Enhancing Opportunities and Improving…
Tumblr has today confirmed that it will be joining Yahoo. As you well know, Yahoo has really being going places of late, purchasing startups and more well-established companies left and right. In 2013 alone it has purchased Snip.it, Alike, Jybe, Summly, Astrid, GoPollGo, MileWise and Loki Studios. Now, following rumors that began circulating last week,…
Facebook is on the hunt for a new acquisition, and it has apparently found a new company to buy: Waze, the crowdsourced map and traffic navigation app. Multiple sources have reported that Facebook is in negotiations to buy Waze for a rumored $1 billion. If this sounds familiar to you, that’s because it should. Just last year, Facebook purchased…
Pulse is perhaps one of my personal favorite news apps on iOS. I enjoy the interface, and I’m pretty much a news junkie. Last month, the company was purchased for $90 million by networking site, LinkedIn, and the first major update to the app since the acquisition has finally rolled out. The new update includes, of course, the ability to share news…
Verizon’s planned bid to buy Vodafone out of their joint venture has run into a rather substantial price disagreement. According to Verizon, Vodafone’s 45% stake in Verizon Wireless is worth $100 billion, whilst Vodafone claims that the stake is worth more than $130 billion. Vodafone’s execs claim that selling their stake could result in a $10 billion…
If you’re a reader, you’ve probably heard of Goodreads. It’s basically the social networking for books, with ratings, reviews, recommendations, and more. All in all, definitely the type of thing major ebook publishers would want to get their hands on. In comes Apple. The Cupertino-based company reportedly spent about a year talking with Goodreads…
For those of you who like to buy lots and lots of technology, Apple just made it a little easier for you to buy your iPad minis in bulk. Up until now, Apple had implemented a 2 iPad mini limit per order to try and keep up with demand. Well, now that they are finally catching up to the demand for the miniature tablet, Apple is allowing customers to order…
We’ve all heard the stories. A young child takes control of an iOS device, perhaps in ownership, or in a desperate parental attempt to occupy the child. The child has soon downloaded “Tap zoo”, or some other form of “freemium” app, and before you can say “Build an amazing zoo”, the child has racked up an iTunes bill of $4000. Today, following a…
A new survey suggests that over half of the consumers polled plan to purchase Apple’s iPhone 5. According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, 53.3% of the 800 survey participants reported interest in pickin’ up Apple’s latest smartphone. That number is higher than it was back in September before the iPhone 5 launched, when 47.7 of respondents had…
Stands for iPads and other tablets (there are other tablets?) are usually not very dynamic, meaning they can’t adjust to where you put it. This new “PadPivot” stand actually has a curved base, allowing it to comfortably rest on your lap, and also steadily sit on a desk or table. Another neat part of this is that it has a swivel joint on it (hence the…
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