Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5B in stock “After a week of rumors, Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired GitHub, the popular Git-based code sharing and collaboration service. The price of the acquisition was $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. GitHub raised $350 million and we know that the company was valued at about $2…
READ MOREGoogle launches YouTube Music and YouTube Premium “Google is launching a new, premium streaming service called YouTube Music. The company is also replacing its YouTube Red premium video service with a new, all-encompassing YouTube Premium. YouTube Music is a premium music streaming service that does away with all of YouTube’s major annoyances: It offers an…
READ MOREAvast Antivirus Acquires AVG for $1.3 Billion “Avast, one of our past favorite desktop antivirus applications, is acquiring one of it’s biggest rivals, AVG Technologies, for $1.3 billion in cash. The deal will give Avast access to hundreds of millions of devices. In a statement made on the Avast company blog, Avast CEO Vincent Steckler…
READ MORENew .london domain names coming soon “Business owners in London have many reasons to be proud and very soon they’ll be able to show it with a fantastic .london gTLD. The introduction of this brand new generic top level domain will allow individuals and business owners who call this city home to have a dedicated…
READ MOREWordPress now powers 18.9% of the Web, has over 46m downloads, according to founder Matt Mullenweg “There are 46+ million downloads of WordPress and added 336 themes, 2.3 times more than last year. 9,334 plugins were requested, while 6,758 were approved, with a total of 26,000 to date in the library. When asked what those…
READ MOREMozilla unveils browser-based Unreal Engine 3 using JavaScript “Firefox producer Mozilla teamed up with Epic Games to bring Unreal Engine 3 to the web, without the need for plugins such as Flash. Mozilla and Epic took only four days to port Epic’s engine to the web by using JavaScript code. The results, as demonstrated by…
READ MORETwitter launches #music “Music discovery service released on iOS today; Android version coming soon Twitter has taken the wraps off its rumoured music service #music. News of the service broke last week when US everyman Ryan Seacrest tweeted about it last week. #music is predominately a music discovery service and will link in with Spotify,…
READ MOREThe need for double-digit speed: Average UK broadband speed hits 12Mbps “Ofcom, the UK regulatory body for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries, has announced that the average British broadband speeds have hit double-digits for the first time ever. According to Ofcom, the average residential UK broadband speeds reached 12.0Mbps in November 2012. This represents a…
READ MORECustom Top-Level Web Domains Will Be Live This Year “When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began accepting applications for new top-level web domains last year, hundreds of companies and organizations scrambled to plot their escape from the world of “website.com” to new domain possibilities, such as “website.microsoft” or “website.ibm.” Nearly 2,000…
READ MOREWindows Live Messenger Will Be “Upgraded” To Skype Starting On April 8 “Good news for those of you still clinging to Windows Live Messenger in its current form — it looks like you’ll able to keep using it for just a little bit longer. It’s no secret that Microsoft would retire its 13 year old…
READ MOREAmazon Brings its Cloud Player to Cars Via Ford’s SYNC AppLink “Ensuring that its customers can enjoy their music wherever they go, Amazon announced today that it has teamed up with Ford to integrate its Cloud Player service into the US car giant’s new and upcoming vehicles. Integrating Cloud Player with Ford’s SYNC AppLink inside…
READ MOREMalware report highlights rise of toolkit attacks “A threat report published by antivirus company AVG has warned of the dangers of malware toolkits, mobile insecurities and pre-teen hackers AVG has published its latest quarterly report on malware and antivirus threats highlighting both the rise of off-the-shelf virus toolkits and the continued vulnerability of mobile devices….
READ MOREEcommerce Sales Topped $1 Trillion Worldwide in 2012 “Ecommerce is now a trillion-dollar industry. Global ecommerce sales passed $1 trillion in 2012 for the first time ever, fueled by growth in North America and the Asia-Pacific region, according to a new report from eMarketer. North America sales increased 13.9% year-over-year to about $365 billion and…
READ MOREGoogle Has Its First $50 Billion Year “It looks like 2012 was a pretty good year for Google. The company hit $50 billion in annual revenue last year for the first time ever thanks in part to the strength of its fourth quarter earnings. Google generated $14.42 billion in the December quarter, an increase of…
READ MOREEE rolls out 4G to nine new UK towns ahead of schedule, covering 45% of the population “EE, the first 4G LTE provider in the UK, today expanded its super-fast mobile networks to nine more UK towns, bringing the total number of 4G-equipped towns and cities to 27, less than three months after the service…
READ MORENew Website Launched for 2013 “A New Year, a New Website! We have revamped our company website to adapt to the new technologies available on the market. The website has been rebuilt using Responsive design technology to ensure it always looks great – whether that’s on a tablet, mobile or a traditional desktop computer. If…
READ MOREThe Internet In 2012: 634 Million Websites “The folks from uptime monitoring company Royal Pingdom have assembled a gargantuan list of various internet-related stats from 2012, and it’s a very interesting read. Though we’ve seen nearly all of these numbers before — for example, we covered Facebook passing 1 billion users in October as well…
READ MOREBT launches SmartTalk, letting its UK customers access their home phone plan on their smartphone “With more than 18 million customers, BT is Britain’s biggest landline telephone service provider. But it has long since transcended its home-phone roots, and is now also the country’s biggest broadband provider, with almost a third of the UK’s Internet…
READ MOREPayPal confirms that it is buying payments startup iZettle for $2.2B in an all-cash deal “PayPal is taking its biggest bet yet on point-of-sale transactions, small businesses and markets outside of the U.S. as it looks to raise its game against Square, Stripe and others in the world of payments: The company has confirmed that…
READ MORE“After a months-long bidding process and many layoffs, Yahoo has finally found a buyer. Verizon (which owns AOL, which owns TechCrunch) is officially acquiring Yahoo’s core business for $4.83 billion in cash, which includes Yahoo’s advertising, content, search and mobile activities.” Read the full article: Click here
READ MOREMicrosoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26b “Microsoft is set to acquire LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, for $26.2 billion in an all-cash transaction. The company said that LinkedIn will continue to operate as usual. Jeff Weiner will remain CEO of LinkedIn, reporting to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The transaction is expected to close by…
READ MOREHTTP/2, the first major change to HTTP in 16 years “Today, the next major version of HTTP took a big step toward becoming a reality; it’s been officially finalized and now moves towards being fully standardized. According to a blog by Mark Nottingham, the chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group, the standard was completed…
READ MORE17.4% of Global Web Traffic Comes Through Mobile “People around the globe are accessing the web via their smartphones more often than ever. So far in 2013, 17.4% of web traffic has come through mobile, representing more than a 6% increase since 2012 when 11.1% of traffic came from mobile. Statista‘s chart above shows the…
READ MOREGoogle Play Hits 1 Million Apps “There are now 1 million apps in the Google Play store. That’s up from 500,000 apps last year. Sundar Pichai — who heads up the Android and Chrome teams for Google — made the announcement at Google’s live event in San Francisco. Pichai touted the app growth as a…
READ MOREYouTube Now Has One Billion Monthly Users “We all know YouTube is the biggest video sharing site around, but how big is it, exactly, when compared to sites such as Facebook or Twitter? Here’s a hint: YouTube has just hit one billion monthly unique users. For comparison, Facebook hit that milestone in October 2012. It…
READ MOREMusic industry revenues grew last year for the first time since 1999, driven by digital sales “Music sales grew last year for the first time since 1999, the Financial Times reports. According to trade association IFPI, which compiled industry figures for 2012, this slight increase in recorded music revenues was driven by digital downloads and…
READ MOREOutlook.com Officially Replaces Hotmail, Boasts 60M Users “Outlook.com officially launched Tuesday, marking the demise of its predecessor, Hotmail. Nearly seven months after unveiling a preview of the email service last July, Microsoft announced the end of its beta run in a blog post. Microsoft, which acquired Hotmail in 1997, said it will switch users to…
READ MOREOpera Is Moving to WebKit “Browser maker Opera is joining the ranks of Google and Apple and embracing the WebKit rendering engine. The company made the announcement in conjunction with news that Opera now reaches 300 million monthly users across its various browser products. Web browsers rely on rendering engines to translate code into the…
READ MOREIntel set to launch online TV service “Intel will be taking on the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Google with a new online TV service that will include a set-top box with a built-in camera Intel is planning to launch a new online TV platform later this year that will see it compete with the…
READ MOREGoogle Drive now lets developers share hosted websites by storing HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files “Google on Tuesday announced that it will allow Web developers to share hosted websites via Google Drive. All you have to do is store your HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files, and then share a link to your starting HTML file….
READ MOREApple Has Now Sold 25 Billion Songs in iTunes Store “Apple announced Wednesday that customers have purchased 25 billion songs from the iTunes store. The 25 billionth song purchased was “Monkey Drums” by Chase Buch and it was bought by a man in Germany who will receive an iTunes gift card worth about $13,500. “We…
READ MOREThree announces free 4G upgrade “Three has announced its customers will be able to upgrade to 4G at no extra cost when it launches its Ultrafast service in the summer Three is one of the major UK networks that will join EE in offering 4G mobile connections later this year. But unlike EE – which…
READ MOREBlackBerry 10: What You Need to Know “Blackberry 10 was officially launched at an event in New York City on Wednesday. Along with the official debut of the mobile operating system, the company behind it also made some huge announcements about its future. Curious what all the hype is about? Here’s a quick look back…
READ MOREVirgin Media extends London Underground WiFi to 11 more stations “Virgin Media’s free WiFi service on the London Underground today became a paid service for some, on the same day the company announced that it has added another 11 stations to its Tube network. From today, the company will provide a pay-as-you-go service to commuters…
READ MOREBBC iPlayer enjoys a record-breaking 2012 “In the latter half of 2012, the BBC reported a slew of record-breaking numbers regarding iPlayer. So it probably comes with little surprise that last year on the whole broke all previous records for the British broadcaster’s online TV service, notching up 2.32 billion TV and radio programme requests…
READ MOREUK Government publishes report on Defence and Cyber Security “A report by the Defence Committee says the UK Government should tighten its cyber security methods Cloud Services A report, which was put together by Defence Committee MPs, says that the UK Government needs to take vigorous action in its approach to cyber security. The report…
READ MORECommit To Going Paperless in 2013 “Are you ready to retire your printer? On January 1, Google Drive, HelloFax and four other companies partnered to launch Paperless2013.org and offer free tools to help consumers and small businesses make the transition to a paperless life. Paper accounts for more than one third of all recyclables collected…
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