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Twitter to acquire mobile advertising company TapCommerce
Twitter said Monday it has agreed to acquire TapCommerce a mobile advertising company focused on re-engaging people who have downloaded...
Read moreMobile payments upstart Isis rebrands to distance itself from extremist group
Isis, a mobile payments service that has struggled to gain traction despite the backing of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is...
Read moreLinkedIn tries again to keep people connected, with a redesigned app
LinkedIn is trying again to build a service on mobile that helps keep people in touch, even when they’re not...
Read morePublic parking app MonkeyParking suspends service in San Francisco
MonkeyParking, an app that lets people bid on public parking spaces, said Thursday it will suspend its service in San...
Read moreYahoo buys Flurry to make more money from mobile apps
Yahoo has reached an agreement to acquire Flurry, a mobile analytics company, as part of a push to grow its...
Read moreDefending Facebook, OkCupid says it also runs user-behavior tests
Facebook earlier this summer sparked criticism over a study in which it manipulated the feeds of some of its users,...
Read moreAs IoT changes how carriers make money, Ericsson is buying new smarts
Ericsson plans to acquire MetraTech, a vendor of billing systems based on metadata, as service providers eye new services using...
Read moreWin Phone 7 users aghast Microsoft axed Skype for their phones
Owners of Windows Phone 7 smartphones are apoplectic that Skype no longer works on their devices.Commenting on the official Skype...
Read moreReports: Amazon will pay $1 billion to buy video-game streaming site Twitch
Amazon will pay at least US$1 billion to acquire Twitch, a site for streaming video-game play, according to reports published...
Read moreFacebook’s new research guidelines don’t impress the professionals
Researchers say Facebook has a ways to go yet toward injecting more transparency and ethics into its research practices.On Thursday,...
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