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March 23, 2011

Snaptu gets snapped up by Facebook

Last Sunday, London based mobile developer Snaptu confirmed that it had been acquired by Facebook in a $60-$70m deal. Looking into this, I learned that this move is all about Facebook wanting to expand its presence and usage across a number of mobile platforms. Snaptu specialises in online solutions for mobile phones (particularly for “feature”…
March 14, 2011

Rdio creates API and launches affiliate program

It all seems to be happening in the world of online music services; in January I blogged about the linkup between music stream service Spotify and mobile music discovery service Shazam and last week I learned about on-demand social music service Rdio opening its API to developers and starting an affiliate program. Rdio is the…
March 12, 2011

Setting the record straight through ICorrect

“Setting the record straight” is what ICorrect.com promises to do. This site was officially launched earlier this week to give people and organisations a chance to correct any information about themselves that they believe to be untrue. Sir David Tang, the founder of ICorrect, believes that 99% of what’s written on the Internet is based on…
February 8, 2011

How robust will Netflix’ business model turn out to be?

The acquisition of Lovefilm by Amazon has really got me interested in this business of online DVD rentals and video streaming. It’s fair to say that Lovefilm’s key metrics are completely gazumped by Netflix’ numbers, its US competitor: 1.6m European subscribers (Lovefilm) vs.19.7m US subscribers (Netflix). But even a successful business like Netflix is not…
February 1, 2011

Becoming a business-critical tool: LinkedIn’s next steps

It has been quite a week for LinkedIn. First it introduced two cool innovations as a result from their monthly developer ‘hackdays’ and it then announced an IPO, to take place later this year. To start off with the innovative part; I learned about “InMaps” and “Swarm”, two interactive ideas that aim to do more…

Snaptu gets snapped up by Facebook

Rdio creates API and launches affiliate program

Setting the record straight through ICorrect

How robust will Netflix’ business model turn out to be?

Becoming a business-critical tool: LinkedIn’s next steps