Google Inc (GOOG) is settling a photographer lawsuit over Google Books
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced a settlement with a photographer coalition over their user of work in the Google Books scanning project.
Pulse2.com is relaunching on the first of February.
Sep 6, 2014
Sep 6, 2014
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) buys in-image ad company Luminate
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has announced that it has acquired advertising service Luminate. Luminate places ads within images. Luminate shut down its service on Wednesday September 3rd. Its publishers will receive a final payment by the end of the month. Advertisers will have their account balances returned to them as well.
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Sep 6, 2014
Google Inc (GOOG): Nest is launching its smart products in Europe this month
Nest, the smart thermostat unit of Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), is launching its smart thermostat and smoke detector in several areas of Europe in late September.
Sep 6, 2014
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) gets sued by Getty Images
Getty Images is known for suing blogs and websites for using professional photos without a license, but now the company is going after Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT). Getty Images filed the lawsuit against Microsoft claiming that the new Bing “Image Widget” tool is violating “massive infringement” of copyrighted images.
Sep 6, 2014
Apple Inc. (AAPL) hires renowned designer Marc Newson
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has hired designer Marc Newson to join his friend Jony Ive. Ive is known for working closely with late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to design many of Apple’s hardware products.
Sep 5, 2014
TwitPic is shutting down after trademark dispute against Twitter
TwitPic is shutting down after a trademark dispute against Twitter. Apparently Twitter threatened to cut off TwitPic’s API, which was the source of the content for all of TwitPic.
Sep 5, 2014
DataStax raises $106 million
DataStax is a company that licenses enhanced versions of the Apache Cassandra open-source NoSQL database. DataStax has raised $106 million in funding. DataStax now has a valuation of over $830 million, according to VentureBeat.
Sep 5, 2014
Toshiba is releasing a $120 Windows 8 tablet
Microsoft is partnering with Toshiba on a small screen tablet with a low price. Microsoft and Toshiba announced the Encore Mini at the IFA conference in Berlin. The Encore Mini is a 7-inch Windows powered tablet and is a smaller version of the 10-inch Encore 2 tablet released earlier this year.