The chief executive of Adobe, Shantanu Narayen, has hit back at Apple's Steve Jobs and the article from earlier today in which Jobs dismissed Adobe's Flash as belonging to the past, not the future.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Narayen calls Jobs's article an "extraordinary attack".
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Source: Guardian UK
Friday, April 30, 2010
Oil spill reaches US coastline
The US coastguard is investigating reports that oil from the Deepwater Horizon rig has begun washing ashore near the mouth of the Mississippi river.
Yesterday the coastguard said up to 5,000 barrels a day were flowing into the sea – five times the rate previously estimated – as an assistant chief at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said he was "frightened for the country".
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Source: Guardian UK
Yesterday the coastguard said up to 5,000 barrels a day were flowing into the sea – five times the rate previously estimated – as an assistant chief at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said he was "frightened for the country".
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Source: Guardian UK
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Ask Jeeves Co-founder Takes Leadership Role at Interesting News Site.
Ask Jeeves co-founder David Warthen has joined citizen journalism-meets-mainstream journalism site Allvoices as Chief Technology Officer. He will be responsible for the technical direction of the company.
Warthen previously served as CTO for several other companies including social Q&A site AnswerBag, which was second in its space only to Yahoo Answers, and was eventually acquired by Demand Media (sidenote: an interesting deal between AnswerBag and MerchantCircle was recently made). It will be quite interesting to see where he takes Allvoices. If you're unfamiliar with Allvoices, read our recent interview with CMO Aki Hashmi about just what the company is doing for the news industry.
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Source: WebproNews
Warthen previously served as CTO for several other companies including social Q&A site AnswerBag, which was second in its space only to Yahoo Answers, and was eventually acquired by Demand Media (sidenote: an interesting deal between AnswerBag and MerchantCircle was recently made). It will be quite interesting to see where he takes Allvoices. If you're unfamiliar with Allvoices, read our recent interview with CMO Aki Hashmi about just what the company is doing for the news industry.
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Source: WebproNews
Apple Buys 2 Companies For Edge in Competition with Google.
Apple and Google are becoming increasingly competitive, and it would seem that they're even competing for who can acquire the most companies in the shortest amount of time. Apple has now acquired Siri and Intrinsity.
Siri is a voice command-based personal assistant app that lets you tell it what you want to do, and it will do most of the work for you, whether that be find the right restaurant and book a reservation, get a cab, or whatever.
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Source: WebproNews
Siri is a voice command-based personal assistant app that lets you tell it what you want to do, and it will do most of the work for you, whether that be find the right restaurant and book a reservation, get a cab, or whatever.
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Source: WebproNews
PayPal Gives iPhone/iPad Developers In-App Payment Option
Some news from PayPal that slipped fairly under the radar this week is that the company opened its Mobile Payments Library to developers. A representative for PayPal tells WebProNews it will give developers an "easy way to get payments from within their apps."
The library is an element of PayPal's PayPal X Payments Platform, announced last year. "The Mobile Payments Library enables app developers to accept in-app purchases directly via PayPal; so developers don't need to store customers' personal financial information and customers can purchase goods and services without leaving the app," the rep explains.
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Source: WebproNews
The library is an element of PayPal's PayPal X Payments Platform, announced last year. "The Mobile Payments Library enables app developers to accept in-app purchases directly via PayPal; so developers don't need to store customers' personal financial information and customers can purchase goods and services without leaving the app," the rep explains.
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Source: WebproNews
Google, IBM, Apple--world's most valuable brands
Google is the world's strongest brand for the fourth straight year, according to a study released Wednesday by research firm Millward Brown Optimor.
Analyzing the world's strongest brands, the fifth annual "BrandZ Top 100 report" examined consumer opinions and market data on brands to assign each one a certain value and then translated that value into dollars to rank the top 100.
Tech companies took the top four spots with No. 1 Google followed by IBM, Apple, and Microsoft.
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Source: Cnet
Analyzing the world's strongest brands, the fifth annual "BrandZ Top 100 report" examined consumer opinions and market data on brands to assign each one a certain value and then translated that value into dollars to rank the top 100.
Tech companies took the top four spots with No. 1 Google followed by IBM, Apple, and Microsoft.
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Source: Cnet
Google takes diplomatic route on Net neutrality
In Washington, D.C., Google is learning there's nothing wrong with a little diplomacy.
In a Federal Communications Commission filing earlier this week, Google reiterated its support for Net neutrality regulation, but it didn't take sides in the ongoing debate over whether the FCC should reclassify broadband services to help ensure the agency has the authority to enforce that regulation.
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Source: Cnet
In a Federal Communications Commission filing earlier this week, Google reiterated its support for Net neutrality regulation, but it didn't take sides in the ongoing debate over whether the FCC should reclassify broadband services to help ensure the agency has the authority to enforce that regulation.
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Source: Cnet
Customer growth boosts Comcast sales, earnings
Comcast can thank a rise in Internet and voice customers and a rebound in ad spending for helping sales and earnings grow higher than expected in the first quarter of 2010.
On Wednesday, the cable company reported a net profit of $866 million, or 31 cents a share, for the quarter ended March, a 12 percent rise from the $772 million earned in the year-ago quarter. Sales climbed 3.8 percent to reach $9.2 billion.
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Source: Cnet
On Wednesday, the cable company reported a net profit of $866 million, or 31 cents a share, for the quarter ended March, a 12 percent rise from the $772 million earned in the year-ago quarter. Sales climbed 3.8 percent to reach $9.2 billion.
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Source: Cnet
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Advanced Glow Effects in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’re going to create some really sharp-looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the Pen Tool and Color Blending. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you’ll pick up some tips you didn’t know before.
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Source: Tuts Plus
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Source: Tuts Plus
Visa buys e-commerce company CyberSource for $2 billion
Visa has acquired e-commerce payment processor CyberSource for $2 billion in cash.
The credit card giant bought the electronic payment company on April 21 to increase the use of Visa debit, prepaid and credit cards for online purchases and to accelerate the e-commerce industry's growth at large, according to a Visa statement.
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Source: DM News
The credit card giant bought the electronic payment company on April 21 to increase the use of Visa debit, prepaid and credit cards for online purchases and to accelerate the e-commerce industry's growth at large, according to a Visa statement.
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Source: DM News
Salesforce.com buys Jigsaw for $142M
Salesforce.com acquired business data company Jigsaw on April 21, in a bid to compete in the data services arena. The $142 million deal is expected to close in the second quarter of fiscal year 2011, which begins on May 1 of that year.
Jigsaw's database includes 21 million executives. Its 1.2 million members, including some of these executives, update data in a “crowdsourced” manner, similar to how a Wikipedia entry is edited.
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Source: DM News
Jigsaw's database includes 21 million executives. Its 1.2 million members, including some of these executives, update data in a “crowdsourced” manner, similar to how a Wikipedia entry is edited.
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Source: DM News
Levi's launches social media shopping tool on Facebook
Now start shopping for your favorite Levi's jeans right on Facebook.
Levi's has partnered with Facebook to introduce a social media tool that lets consumers shop for jeans from the social network.
The Levi's brand is one of the first companies to integrate with Facebook's “Social Plugins” tool. The platform, powered by Open Graph, allows brands to create pages for products on Facebook that consumers can “like.” The items then appear in a Facebook user's news feed, as well as on the brand's e-commerce site. Consumers can use a recommendation widget to highlight products to friends.
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Source: DM News
Levi's has partnered with Facebook to introduce a social media tool that lets consumers shop for jeans from the social network.
The Levi's brand is one of the first companies to integrate with Facebook's “Social Plugins” tool. The platform, powered by Open Graph, allows brands to create pages for products on Facebook that consumers can “like.” The items then appear in a Facebook user's news feed, as well as on the brand's e-commerce site. Consumers can use a recommendation widget to highlight products to friends.
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Source: DM News
Yahoo Search Results to Include More Sponsors
Yahoo has launched a pilot program called "More Sponsors" in which it will add links at the bottom of Yahoo search results for more PPC adds. When a user clicks on one of the links it will bring up a page with nothing but sponsored search ads.
The feature is supported by Yahoo's Search Assist features (the search engine's suggestions feature). "For example, the consumer might type in 'Hawaii vacation,' and Yahoo! might suggest vacations packages or resorts," explains Laurie Sullivan on Yahoo's Search Marketing blog.
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Source: WebproNews
The feature is supported by Yahoo's Search Assist features (the search engine's suggestions feature). "For example, the consumer might type in 'Hawaii vacation,' and Yahoo! might suggest vacations packages or resorts," explains Laurie Sullivan on Yahoo's Search Marketing blog.
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Source: WebproNews
New Social Networking Site Aims To Streamline Communications
A new social networking site has launched called RecreateMyNight.com and WebProNews spoke to Tejpaul Bhatia, President of the site about its offerings.
Bhatia said the idea for the site started last year when his team noticed that discovering and sharing media from special events was difficult due to the high fragmentation of photo sharing, video sharing and social networking sites.
"We set out to create a simple and seamless tool to aggregate photos, videos, status updates and more from multiple platforms into one location where all friends can share, contribute and enjoy," said Bhatia.
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Source : WebproNews
Bhatia said the idea for the site started last year when his team noticed that discovering and sharing media from special events was difficult due to the high fragmentation of photo sharing, video sharing and social networking sites.
"We set out to create a simple and seamless tool to aggregate photos, videos, status updates and more from multiple platforms into one location where all friends can share, contribute and enjoy," said Bhatia.
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Source : WebproNews
PayPal Lands Alibaba Deal
Earlier this week, Alibaba.com launched a new business-to-business platform, and now, it looks like eBay and PayPal will get a boost from it, too. It's been decided that AliExpress will offer PayPal as a payment option.
This may turn out to be a significant moment for both sides. Alibaba is a successful ecommerce platform based in Asia, with about 47 million registered users, but of course AliExpress is brand new. And PayPal is a big moneymaker for eBay, with roughly 84 million active accounts in existence, but Asia isn't its home market.
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Source : WebproNews
This may turn out to be a significant moment for both sides. Alibaba is a successful ecommerce platform based in Asia, with about 47 million registered users, but of course AliExpress is brand new. And PayPal is a big moneymaker for eBay, with roughly 84 million active accounts in existence, but Asia isn't its home market.
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Source : WebproNews
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