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Month: March 2014
Box Seeks To Move The ‘Information Economy’ Forward With New Developer Tools & Pricing To Encourage Platform Innovation
Cloud storage platform Box has made a move to show developers that it’s more than just a place to keep files, images, and videos in a safe and secure place on the Internet. At its inaugural BoxDev conference, CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie revealed three new features for the community available today: It’s now easier […]
Facebook’s Acquisition of Oculus VR May Usher The ‘Second Life’ View of Your Social Graph
Facebook has gone ahead and made another bold purchase. On Tuesday, the social networking company announced that it had paid $2 billion in cash and stock for Oculus VR, the creators of a virtual reality headset useful in 3D gaming. Some were befuddled and chagrined by the move, wondering what benefit Facebook would have with […]
Twilio Adds Open-Source ‘Rapid Response Kit’ To Help Teams Deploy Apps In A Crisis
It’s no surprise that technology has played an integral part in times of disaster, emergency, or crisis. Companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google have all offered their support to assist people in affected parts of the world to ensure they can communicate with their loved ones and help share eyewitness accounts. One of those companies […]
Flipboard Acquires Zite to Make Curated Content More Personal
On Wednesday, a company acquired the digital magazine publisher platform Zite for the second time. This time it’s by its main competitor Flipboard in an all-stock transaction with CNN. You might remember that CNN picked up Zite in 2011 for $20 million. The deal will result in the closure of Zite, and the team will […]
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