The Microsoft-Samsung Partnership Lifts Windows Phone's Prospects. Facebook and Dropbox bring seamless file sharing to groups. Why Would Apple Want To Invest In Twitter. Apple Investing In Twitter? [Report. These do look pretty cool together.
Ping never had a chance, but a recent report may show the way to Apple’s eventual success in the social media space. According to a report in The New York Times, “people briefed on the matter” say that Apple has been talking with the social media startup about making a strategic investment. NBC And Facebook Announce Olympic Deal. Flipboard to carry full content of New York Times. The New York Times and Flipboard announced late Sunday that from Thursday all content from the prominent newspaper will be available to NYTimes subscribers through Flipboard, the news reading app that allows users to read content in an attractive magazine-style format.
In a joint statement, the NYTimes said the move signalled the launch of its NYTimes Everywhere strategy, which aims to bring the newspaper’s content to users through third-party apps. NYTimes subscribers, who can currently view all of the publication’s content via its website and app, will now have the additional option of using Flipboard. In an interview posted on the NYTimes’ Bits blog, Denise F.
Warren, general manager of the newspaper’s website, said the deal with Flipboard was the right thing to do as the paper heads in the direction of digital subscriptions. Facebook Rolls Out WordPress Integration To Take Over Blogosphere. Microsoft To Invest $300 Million In The Nook E-Reader; Barnes & Noble Shares Up 101% Skype Integration Tops List Of Windows Phone 8 Rumors. Microsoft could unveil a stand-alone Skype application for Windows Phone as soon as this month's Mobile Phone Congress, and Skype is expected to be standard on the mobile operating system when the company launches Windows Phone 8.
Skype was acquired by Microsoft in 2011 and a Skype client for Windows Phone had been promised by the end of last year. So far, Microsoft and its Skype unit have been quiet about the integration, but the Verge is reporting that company employees can now download a test version of Skype from the Windows Phone Marketplace. Meanwhile, an internal Microsoft video that had been intended for executives at Nokia, is fueling more speculation about what features will be added to Windows Phone 8. Known by the codename Apollo, Windows Phone 8 is expected to be released sometime after the release of the Tango operating system, which is also expected at the Mobile Phone Congress. Photo courtesy of ShutterStock. Sean Parker says Spotify on Facebook lives up to original Napster vision (video) Sean Parker, the billionaire of Napster and Facebook fame, is on to his next big deal: Spotify, which started in Europe and is now offering streaming music in the U.S.
In a conversation with Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek, Parker said that the rise of Spotify and other music streaming services and the debut of their integration with Facebook today fulfilled the original vision he had for Napster. Will Walmart's Free Nokia Lumia 710 Offer Help Give Windows Phone A Boost? Facebook as the Latest Must-Have Auto Accessory. Facebook CEO Calls Amazon and Apple Friends; Not So Sure About Google - Liz Gannes - Social. While he shrugged off the increasingly popular notion of an intensifying war between top tech companies, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used sharply different words to describe Amazon and Apple than Google in an interview with Charlie Rose to be broadcast tonight.
Amazon and Apple “are extremely aligned with us,” said Zuckerberg. “We have a lot of conversations with people at both companies just trying to figure out ways that we can do more together, and there is just a lot of reception there.” Meanwhile, “Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook,” Zuckerberg said. WSJ: Apple negotiating for streaming movies on iTunes Store. Facebook And eBay Team Up To Breathe New Life Into Social Commerce. “We’re at an inflection point”, eBay CEO John Donahoe said from the stage at Innovate, eBay’s brand new developer conference that launched today in San Francisco.
“We’ll see more change in how consumers shop and pay in the next three years than we’ve seen in the last 15 years”. Donahoe’s prediction for the future came as context for giving a more complete introduction today to X.commerce, the platform formed by eBay and its nest eggs PayPal, Magento and GSI — designed to create a robust, full-service and “open” eCommerce solution.
The eCommerce solution “to rule them all”, one might say. But the real kicker is that, as Leena wrote earlier today, what X.commerce really symbolizes is the first instance of eBay creating a business that truly caters to developers. What does this mean? Indeed, it’s a result of this that, as VP and General Manager of X.commerce Matthew Mengerink said today, online shopping remains “a very individualistic and lonely experience”. WSJ: Apple negotiating for streaming movies on iTunes Store. Intel acquires mapping company Telmap. Chip maker dropping support for MeeGo Intel has announced that it has moved to acquire Telmap, an Israeli company that specializes in location-based products and services for mobile devices. The buyout is aimed at bolstering Intel's consumer services division, providing an additional incentive for developers to create content for the chip maker's AppUp application portal.
AppUp general manager Peter Biddle suggests the Telmap acquisition will enable Intel to provide developers with an alternative to Bing and Google for location-based search, mapping and navigation content within apps. Services based on Telmap technology will be offered without the licensing agreements required by Google and Microsoft. "Developers can provide an in-app experience without someone getting in between them and their users," Biddle told AllThingsD.
The Telmap acquisition was announced at Intel's AppUp Elements developer conference, where the company also admitted it will be dropping support for the MeeGo OS. Buying Yahoo Is A No-Brainer For Alibaba. Today at the China 2.0 conference at Stanford, Alibaba Groups’s Jack Ma replied to a pointed question about buying Yahoo with, “We are very interested in Yahoo.
Our Alibaba group is important to Yahoo and Yahoo is important to us … All the serious buyers interested in Yahoo have talked to us.” Those “serious buyers” most likely include Alibaba Group investor Silver Lake Partners, Microsoft, Hellman & Friedman and Andreesen Horowitz, who have all reportedly reached out to Yahoo’s board. Is Ma’s interest enough to spark consumer and shareholder interest in Yahoo? “Any and all interest [is] welcome,” one shareholder told me, “but Ma has real smarts.” On the surface Ma is certainly the type of CEO that Yahoo needs post-Bartz, diplomatic, cunning, and a man of (relatively) few words. Alibaba Group’s recent funding from Silver Lake valued it at $32 billion, while Yahoo is at a 16 billion market cap. Is the rest of Yahoo worth $3 billion? Would the Yahoo board take an offer from Ma? The Rocky Relationship Between Apple and Facebook [Report.