Sharing photos on Facebook should be easy. Automatically sharing your entire photo collection unknowingly with app developers should be impossible, but it isn’t. A recently exposed loophole in the iPhone, iPad and…
Apple’s iPad Trademark Issue Headed to California
Oh, what a tangled web an iPad trademark weaves. After the Chinese software company Proview Shenzan Technology accused Apple of ripping off the iPad trademark, various Chinese courts have bounced the issue…
Nevada Approves Google’s Self Driving Robot Cars
Perhaps the flying car is next. Nevada recently passed regulations for self driving cars that were approved by insurance companies, police, car companies, and others, making Google’s computer driven robot car one…
EU to Defer ACTA to Highest European Court
The European Union has decided to refer the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement to the European Court of Justice, the highest court in the institution, to determine whether the agreement complies with the…
LinkedIn Acquires Rapportive, the Email Plugin
LinkedIn has acquired Rapportive, a browser plugin that overlays Gmail with info on other social media feeds. The news was first put up for rumor a couple of weeks ago by AllThingsD,…
Google Caught Tracking Your iPhone
Yes, Google may well have been looking over your shoulder every time you surf your iPhone, iPad or MacBook, or anything using Safari for that matter. The infraction was first discovered by Jonathan Mayer,…
Net Income Up 77%, Baidu’s Q4 Revenue Up 82.5% to $711M
Baidu, the giant of Chinese search, posted Q4 revenues that revealed an 82.5 percent increase over the year before. Revenues hit RMB4.474 billion ($710.9 million), while the quarter’s net income hit RMB2.054…
Facebook to Bank $1.2 B Per Year on Mobile Ads
Though Facebook has yet to advertise on mobile devices (smaller screens present enormous marketing hurdles), that hasn’t stopped the web world from speculating just how much the social media agency stands to…
Google+ Grows Brand Followers by 1400% Since December
Brands on Google+ are growing followers like crazy. A new report from BrightEdge, the SEO and digital marketing startup, indicates that the number of users following the top 100 brands on Google…
LinkedIn Top Social Job Recruiter, Followed by Twitter, Facebook
Bullhorn, a developer of a recruitment software and application system, recently released the Social Recruiting Activity Report, and named LinkedIn as the leader in terms of frequency of usage by recruiters and…