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TV and video recommendation engine Matcha went offline this summer with nary a mention as to why it was shut down. Thanks to a report by AllThingsD, we now know the reason for the company’s disappearance — it was acquired by Apple. Apple hasn’t confirmed the acquisition (it rarely does when it scoops up the…
Sonny Dickson is back again with a leak showcasing the colored casing of the rumored iPhone 5C. The yellow plastic of the expected budget iPhone is shown off next to an iPhone 5 and a white iPhone 3GS. The high-quality video gives us a look at the form of the plastic molding an the overall…
HTC kicked off its $1 billion marketing campaign with the first official ad starring Robert Downey Jr. The clip shows the Hollywood star exploring the many ways we can interpret the abbreviated letters HTC. The commercial builds on the campaign’s slogan “Here’s To Change” and reinforces the HTC name through the 2-minute ad. You can…
As reported by GigaOM and The Verge, BlackBerry had a chance at a turn around last year when a group of angel investors, armed with a radical plan and $1 billion in cash commitments, wanted to take over the company. The takeover plan eventually failed, and BlackBerry again is now facing a financial crisis and possible…
Now that Verizon is almost done with its LTE rollout, the company is ready to turn towards its next big cellular transition — the move from CDMA to LTE for its voice calls. As noted by Droid-Life, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo spoke recently at the Oppenheimer Technology, Internet and Communications Conference and laid out the…
According to The Korea Times, LG has canceled all future outdoor promotional events due to safety concerns after a recent event resulted in the injury of 20 attendees. The injuries took place during a G2 event in Korea. The idea for the event was innocuous enough — fill a letter G with balloons containing a…
Blackberry announced on Monday that is ready to explore options to keep the company afloat. In a press release, BlackBerry confirmed that it will “explore strategic alternatives to enhance value and increase scale in order to accelerate BlackBerry 10 deployment.” BlackBerry is open to a joint venture, strategic partnership or an outright a sale of…
Sources told AllThingsD that Apple plans to hold a press event on September 10th to introduce its next generation iPhone. Details on the iPhone were not provided to AllThingsD, but Apple is rumored to be working on an iPhone 5S possibly with a fingerprint sensor, beefier processor and improved camera sensor. A spate of recent rumors…
Amazon had a bit of snafu yesterday when it accidentally told some customers that their Chromecast order was delayed until October. Amazon confirmed to Droid Life that the order date was incorrectly estimated by Amazon’s system. Rather than delaying orders, the company is “actively fulfilling orders and all customers who placed orders prior to August…
John Legere took over as CEO of T-Mobile USA in September 2012, and it’s been a roller coaster ride ever since. Legere emerged out of the shadows earlier this year with a startling presentation at CES during which he called AT&T’s network “crap” and lambasted capped data plans. He promised he would turn the wireless…