Amazon is acquiring the cloud-based digital comics platform comiXology, the companies announced Thursday. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed. ComiXology “will retain its identity as an Amazon subsidiary,” co-founder and CEO David Steinberger said in a letter on the company’s website.
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Twitter is bringing notification alerts to the web
The company announced Thursday that users who access Twitter.com will soon receive pop-up notifications when others on the platform engage with them — for example, when a user retweets, mentions or messages them.
The notification will...
You do not have to worry about the scary Heartbleed security flaw when using Apple's cloud, iCloud.
Apple has confirmed that all of its devices and web services are safe from the bug and that its devices never used the problematic software...
It's been two days since the Heartbleed bug was exposed, a security flaw so bad, security expert Bruce Schneier has called it "catastrophic."
The flaw allows hackers to intercept and read website information supposed to be encrypted, like passwords and credit...
Land Rover has come up with an awesome experimental technology that turns an SUV into something akin to Wonder Woman's invisible plane.
Using cameras placed under the hood, and projecting that live video feed onto the windshield, it creates an effect...
Uber riders know they can get a free $20 credit toward future rides by signing up their friends for the on-demand limo and taxi service. But Blake Jareds, who works at a New York-based real estate startup, took this...
Big Data and TLC allow to realize forecast model for energy production and improve the efficiency of a single windmill blade
The energy sector is undergoing a real technological revolution, as shown especially by the widespread of renewable sources such...
Your Twitter profile page is about to look a lot like Facebook, and chances are, you have a pretty strong opinion about it.
Nearly two months after the company quietly tested a new layout among a small group of users, news first reported by Mashable, Twitter...
It's been a while since there was a computer security bug we all had to worry about.
Unfortunately, it seems like we may all have been facing one for two years and not even realized it.
Yesterday, security researchers announced a security flaw...
Facebook has been in a longstanding tug-of-war with its users over privacy: as the platform expands the Social Graph, more users have dug in their heels in the name of keeping personal information private. Now the company may finally get...
One of the main things stopping people from purchasing a 3D printer for their homes is price. The MakerBot Replicator Mini, for example, is available for preorder for around $1,300.
But if you have dreams of printing 3D doodads and whatchamacallits...
US mobile users spend far more time with apps than the internet itself, and gaming grabs the largest share of app time. As a result, games lead in number of downloads from the Apple App Store and Amazon Appstore,...
Samsung's new flagship phone, the Galaxy S5, launches April 11.
The next version of its popular smartphone is equipped with a slew of cool features like a 16 megapixel camera.
But as with any phone, it' really all about the apps.
We've...
At Apple's developers conference last year, it showed a video before it introduced its radical new design for iOS, the operating system for iPhones and iPads.
The video centered around the theme that "there are a thousand no's for every...
From United States a systems for smart communication, Vehicle to Vehicle and Vehicle to Environment. A new applications of the Internet of Everything
The United States advance and aim at turning mandatory the installation on all new cars - starting...
Social media has a long way to go before it becomes a standard part of TV viewing, according to research, which found that just 16.1% of viewers used a social platform when watching a program. Millennials are the age...
There has been a flurry of wearables launches in the past year, including the Samsung Galaxy Gear, the Pebble, and the Explorer version of Google Glass. But there's still a lack of apps in many of these devices' ecosystems, and...
Twitter's Vine has introduced a feature that allows you to message other users directly via video. This adds both a direct messaging channel and video clips to its messages, a big addition to Twitter's video app. There is a...
Thanks to the buzz surrounding anonymity apps like Secret, Whisper and Yik Yak, Facebook could be working on a Secret-like app of its own, reports Re/code's Mike Isaac.
Facebook has even contacted Secret about the idea, sources told Isaac, though this...
Chinese social networks can seem a daunting challenge for brands that are trying to expand their business in APAC.
Beyond the obvious language barrier marketers have to get to grips with new functionality, cultural behaviours and consumer expectations.
The Chinese internet...
