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It doesn’t look like Facebook Places is killing Foursquare just yet, as the check-in startup said it has seen its largest number of new signups the day after Places was introduced. “Just heard from The @HarryH that today was @foursquare’s biggest day ever in terms of new user signups,” Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley tweeted. This…
In a move that’s not unexpected, Hot Potato has been acquired by the world’s largest social network and this move could help bolster the recently-introduced Facebook Places. Reports from earlier said that Facebook was in serious talks to buy Foursquare but the deal was derailed over a $30 million difference in asking price. The world’s…
Yahoo has lost one of its top mobile engineers, TechCrunch first reported and confirmed by Yahoo, as Sandeep Gupta will be leaving the company. Gupta was the company’s senior director of application development and there’s no word on where he will be heading to next but he is just the latest departure from Yahoo’s mobile…
Vlingo, developer of a popular Voice command application for a wide variety of mobile platforms, responded to Google’s new Voice Actions application by offering its Android application for free. Vlingo points out in a blog post that its voice-product overlaps Google’s Voice Actions in many areas and offers similar functionality. To compete with the Google application, Vlingo…
Facebook is reportedly readying a location-based service that will enable users to check-in to places and venues. Will this service aim to crush competitors like Foursquare and Gowalla? Well, it’s complicated. Multiple services told CNET that the Facebook check-in service would launch in the coming weeks and it will enable users to broadcast their location…
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega had some kind words for rival Verizon’s joint proposal with Google regarding net neutrality. According to the Wall Street Journal: “It’s a positive sign that shows that those two companies can agree on something as different as net neutrality,” de la Vega, head of AT&T’s consumer and mobile…
Verizon and Google are allegedly in talks for a deal that may undermine net neutrality according to sources privy to the discussions between the two companies. The agreement between the Mountain View-based search giant and America’s largest wireless carrier (by subscriber count) is going to be made public in a few days, but in the…
Look out Apple because Motorola is reportedly prepping a 10-inch Android tablet which will go head-to-head with the iPad. This isn’t the first we’ve heard of an Android tablet but the latest rumors indicate the Motorola Android device will one-up the iPad by including television service from Verizon FiOS. This is all rumored, mind you,…
In a bid to make the Amazon Kindle a mass-market device, the company will be introducing new versions of the e-reader next month that will feature a cheaper price tag and a slimmer, sleeker design. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said a smaller Amazon Kindle will hit the company’s digital…
Look, I know Google gets a lot of good will for the open source nature of Android OS but don’t try and think the company isn’t focusing on its bottom line. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal that its mobile platform could soon generate as much as $10 billion for the company…