Tag: Purchase
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Facebook Buys Face.com – Does Facial Recognition Database Pose New Threat to Our Online Safety?
Following a recent $1-billion deal to buy Instagram, the world dominating social network Facebook has now snapped up the small Israeli-based software company which created and runs the Face.com website – featuring a software which can recognise the faces of our friends and family from stored information on the website’s database. High-profile business site Reuters…
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Facebook Surpasses 900 Million Active Users
Ahead of its IPO Facebook released quarterly results which reveal the social network has now got 901 million active monthly members, which is up from 680 million in 2011.
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Instagram Tops Charts – Photo App Brought into Focus by Android Launch & Facebook Buyout
If you’re a social mobile user you’re probably familiar with Instagram – particularly in the past couple of weeks. First of all, the popular photo editing app touched down on Android gadgets. Then just two days ago, Facebook confirmed its intention to acquire the Instagram software and its brand. Since then downloads of the mobile…
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Instagram Tops Charts – Photo App Brought into Focus by Android Launch & Facebook Buyout
If you’re a social mobile user you’re probably familiar with Instagram – particularly in the past couple of weeks. First of all, the popular photo editing app touched down on Android gadgets. Then just two days ago, Facebook confirmed its intention to acquire the Instagram software and its brand. Since then downloads of the mobile…
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Facebook Buys Instagram For $1billion
Mark Zuckerberg has just updated his status to inform Facebook users that the social networking site will be buying popular photo-sharing site Instagram for a cool $1 billion. Instagram was first launched in October 2010 for iPhone users and has just recently released a version for Android too. In fact, when released, the app was…
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April Fools Day: 5 of the Best Tech Pranks! Nokia Buys HTC, Apple MacBook iPhone Dock, Legend of Zelda Movie..??
Ahead of Sunday, April 1st – more commonly known the world over as April Fools Day – we thought we’d take you on a trip back over recent years to recap some of the best tech and gadget-related pranks and stunts which fooled many but the most sceptical of us, and as a taster of what…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Elite DLC Maps & Missions Available to Non-Subscribers in Paid “Content Collections”
Those talented developers behind the Call of Duty shooter series have confirmed that the first three month’s worth of its 2012 Modern Warfare 3 DLC line-up, previously only available to Elite Premium account holders, will become available for non-subscribing Xbox 360 owners to purchase at cost in one bundle. Following this, the downloadable goodies from…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Elite DLC Maps & Missions Available to Non-Subscribers in Paid “Content Collections”
Those talented developers behind the Call of Duty shooter series have confirmed that the first three month’s worth of its 2012 Modern Warfare 3 DLC line-up, previously only available to Elite Premium account holders, will become available for non-subscribing Xbox 360 owners to purchase at cost in one bundle. Following this, the downloadable goodies from…
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MWC 2012: BlackBerry Video Store To Offer High-Quality Streaming Movies
RIM has officially announced its BlackBerry Video Store feature at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and in an another attempt to revitalise the disappointing 7” PlayBook promises HD streaming movies and content in high-quality playback supported by information and guides through digital entertainment technology company Rovi. The BlackBerry Video Store was first mentioned late…
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Sony Ericsson No More – Sony Completes Buy-Out of Mobile Partnership
The Sony buyout of its mobile-making partnership with Ericsson was announced back in October and today the deal is done with the Sony Ericsson name being discontinued and its branding becoming part of the singular entity – Sony Mobile Communications. Sony snapped up the other half stake in the partnership for over a billion Euros…
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Angry Birds Arrive on Facebook Tomorrow – Bringing 3 Exclusive Power-ups!
Valentine’s Day is the time of the year usually reserved for perfect pairings to celebrate their love for one another with an ample dollop of commercialism. But even the hottest date would be hard pressed to pull us away from the social net this Feb 14th, when a chaotic coupling arrives – Tomorrow Angry Birds…
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275 Downloadable Sony PSP Titles Available on PS Vita from UK Launch
Sony has listed a massive 275 Playstation Portable (PSP) downloadable games which will join the 25 physical titles available for the PS Vita when it launches in the UK on February 22nd. These games range from well-known classics such as Bomberman and Metal Slug and a bit more up-to-date with Lego Pirates of the Caribbean…