Google replaces Places with Google+ Local and boosts its ChromeOS offering, PayPal launches a new high street retail payments offering in the UK, and Apple plans to get more social. It’s all in...
The Next Web has been at the Open Mobile Summit in London today finding out about the futures of mCommerce, digital media for mobile, monetization and being updated on what to expect from our pocket ...
Today, Microsoft announced the launch of Office 365 for Government, a natural extension of its Office 365 product into a new niche where it could find substantial traction, as the government tries to...
Apple is apparently in the process of acquiring a small Italian music startup called Redmatica, reports Techcrunch. We did some digging and the acquisition appears to be legitimate so far. The report...
According to the ad agency JWT, “Web chat everywhere” is one of the 100 things to watch in 2012. In its annual prediction list, it mentioned the young startup Tokkster as one of the key e...
smartDIGITAL, a Chicago-area company, today announced that it is in the process of closing a $2.7 million Series A round, moving its headquarters, and plans to double its headcount in the next 1.5 mo...
Stylish inspiration hub The Fancy, which feels like a highly curated Pinterest (minus the tumblr-esque fashion photos and cute bunny rabbits), has just released a brand new iPhone app. This release m...
And the integration begins. Skype and Microsoft have been somewhat distant partners since the Redmond giant bought the communications behemoth, by design. Skype has kept its identity pure, which has ...
Over half of smartphone videos are viewed at home, a new study reports. A partnership between online video tech company Tremor Video and consulting firm Frank N. Magid Associates, it focuses on shift...
Online food ordering company Delivery Hero, one of Berlin’s hottest startups, has acquired 100 percent of Finland’s Pizza-online.fi, in which it already had a minority stake. The news follows D...
Expanding its partnership outside of the US, Foursquare and American Express have launched a new initiative in the UK that allows Amex cardhorders to redeem location-based offers from popular high st...
The media overplays Steve Jobs’ temperamental, angry, explosive side when reporting about his management style, believes Ken Segall, the man who chose the name iMac and thus gave birth to Apple...
iHigh, which operates a digital TV platform and a network of websites for youth, has secured $11.6 million in funding from Cox Media Group in exchange for a minority stake. The investment values iHig...
Owners of Apple’s iPhone are now more data hungry than any other smartphone users, eclipsing users of Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone devices, to account for 80% of the top 10% of heavies...
Personal publishing service company Shutterfly has acquired Israeli photo software Photoccino for undisclosed terms, the company announced this morning. This is Shutterfly’s third acquisition t...
Google has launched one of its biggest multi-product overhauls in quite some time with the release of Google+ Local. The new, more social, offerings will replace the current Google Places pages and b...
The online advertising market grew 14.5 percent year-over-year to a market value of almost 21 billion euros, according to IAB Europe, which has just released the results of its sixth annual AdEx Benc...
Taghreedat, the Middle Eastern volunteer group working to increase the amount of Arabic Web content has just struck a deal with the Wikimedia Foundation, launching the Arabic Wikipedia Editors Progra...
In another of its famous Apple Store takedowns, Apple briefly pushed its online marketplace live for a moment (it’s down at the time of writing) this morning to confirm it will sell the slick N...
Will Facebook end up buying facial recognition technology startup Face.com for around $100 million as Israeli business media reported earlier this week? TechCrunch says the acquisition is both ‘...
Buddy Platform this morning announced that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from Transmedia Capital and Crestlight Venture Productions as it launches its ‘backend-as-a-service 217; (o...
A new version of Sparrow for the iPhone has been released to fix a couple of important issues with the popular communications app, but there is no support for push notifications yet. Sparrow for iPho...
Earlier this morning PayPal launched its inStore payments service in the UK, providing a new and simple way for consumers to pay for items and redeem discounts using their Android and iOS smartphone....
Last year we reported that Arabic was set to overtake English as the most popular language used on Facebook across the region, and as SpotOn PR reports, the Arabic language has pulled ahead. Analysin...
PayPal has announced that its In-Store mobile payment service will be accepted at four major UK retailers – Coast, Oasis, Warehouse and Karen Millen — from tomorrow, as the payments giant...
At a meeting last night, Menlo Park officials approved a deal that will let Facebook employ thousands more people at its headquarters in the Silicon Valley city. Today, the social networking company ...
Dropbox is saying ’An Nyoung’ to South Korea after the company revealed that it is making the popular file sharing service available in Korean. The Web-based portal and “selected...
Facebook began a gradual rollout of promoted posts for brand pages about a week ago and the social networking site has now posted its first demo video today, letting advertisers know what to expect f...
China Unicom’s focus on 3G is set to yield tangible results after the country’s second largest operator revealed that its revenue from 3G subscribers will overtake that of its 2G customer...
London-based app development startup Mindshapes, which is behind a series of educational games and applications, has secured $4 million in funding from VC firm Index Ventures, Richmond Park Partners ...
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