Google Offers to Compete with Groupon and LivingSocial
Mashable got their hands on a confidential fact sheet which seems to detail a group buying service: “Google Offers is a new product to help potential customers and clientele find great deals in their area through a daily email.” Google Offers looks and operates much like Groupon or LivingSocial. Users receive an e-mail with a [...]
Read MoreEric Schmidt No Longer Google CEO. Page Steps Up.
In a Tweet former Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced a management shake-up at the search giant: “Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!” Schmidt wrote on his Twitter account moments after Google dropped the bombshell that upstaged its fourth-quarter earnings. Schmidt, 55, will still be available to advise Page, 37, and Google’s other 37-year-old founder, Sergey [...]
Read MoreWiFi Now Offered at Harlem’s Riverbank State Park
By Donte Gibson The digital divide in Harlem has just gotten a bit smaller. That’s because officials at Harlem’s Riverbank State Park have brokered a deal that gives the park free WiFi access. This also makes Riverbank State Park the first New York State park to offer WiFi access. The park, a rooftop park which sits [...]
Read MoreT-Mobile USA Confirms Sidekick 4G and Samsung Galaxy S 4G
At a press breakfast today, T-Mobile USA CEO Phillip Humm confirmed the 4G HSPA+ versions of both the T-Mobile Sidekick and the Samusung Galaxy S would be “coming soon.” “We will launch as new the Samsung Galaxy S 4G … and coming soon, will also be a Sidekick 4G. Everybody knows the Sidekick, and we’re [...]
Read MoreSnoop Dogg Creates Tech Buzz with Use of Instagram
It’s hard to be a mobile web startup in 2011. In a world where new apps and services are released almost every day, it’s hard to differentiate your product to users, let alone get a big enough user base to make a splash in the app store. So what’s a growing (but still somewhat unknown) [...]
Read MoreHuffington Post to Launch African-American Section: GlobalBlack
The Huffington Post and BET co-founder Sheila Johnson are launching a HuffPost section devoted to African-Americans. The new section will be called “HuffPost GlobalBlack,” and is expected to debut in early March. Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington says the goal is simply to cover more stories “of importance to the black community.” GlobalBlack marks [...]
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