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Wednesday, 20th July 2011

Internet of Things

Pachube Acquired: Why Did It Sell So Early?

My favorite startup in the fast emerging Internet of Things market, London-based Pachube, has been acquired by Woburn, Massachusetts-based LogMeIn. The deal is worth "approximately $15 million in cash," some of it dependent on performance. LogMeIn provides provides cloud-based remote access solutions, such as the remote PC control app…

Richard MacManus comments

Africa Mobile Ads Grow 40% in Three Months

Independent mobile advertising network, InMobi, reported a 37.9% growth in mobile advertising in Africa over the three months from February to May. On InMobi's blog, Surag Patel said, "This growth was largely driven by the continued growing trend towards smartphone adoption in these markets."

Mobile Curt Hopkins comments

Netflix Comes To 17 More Androids

More than two months after rolling out service to a limited number of Android smartphones, Netflix has come out with an update today that adds video streaming functionality to 17 more Android devices, including some of the best selling on the market. Users cried foul when Netflix came out with support for only five phones in May, four of them…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Lessons Learned From the Shuttle Tweetup

Spend your own money to travel to Florida during its least pleasant season, bum a ride to a rented house split with strangers, and wake up on a couch before dawn multiple days in a row. That's no vacation - unless NASA requests your company. The space agency invited a selection of its Twitter followers to the last five shuttle launches, including…

Enterprise Rob Pegoraro comments

Bye, Bye Google Labs

Google Labs is over, the company announced today in a short post to the official Google Blog. Labs was the official home of many of Google's experimental projects - from a map of the human body to a Gmail plug-in that tried to stop people from sending emails while drunk. To be frank, it was an incoherent, unsatisfying, poorly supported tangle…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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