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It seems that Twitter is in talks to purchase TweetDeck for $50 million. TweetDeck is the most popular third-party application for Twitter, available on the desktop, iPhone, iPad and Android devices it can be found everywhere. It’s handy when displaying…

Dropbox has made some exponential gains in 2011 already, surpassing 25 million users and handling over 200 million files per day. Dropbox is a simple program that brings so much together to sync your life. The service is free and…

The fun Virgin America airline is working to make flying fun again for users of Facebook and Foursquare. The company has always been after a way to make flying more fun for its customers, and is trying a radical new…

Texas Instruments, makers of circuit board chips, DLP, calculators, and more, announced that they are purchasing its all time analog technology rival, National Semiconductor, for $6.5 billion in cash alone. Rich Templeton, president and chief executive officer of Texas Instruments said in a statement: “This…

In an astonishing purchasing event today Google has put out a bid to purchase Nortel’s 6,000 patents, that includes a variety of wireless, 4G, semiconductor and data networking IP patents. The Canadian-based telecommunications network Nortel was once on the top…

Not even 24 hours after the official release of Amazon Cloud Player they are immediately being hit by the major music companies saying that this cloud player breaks their copyright holds on the music. It seems almost as immediately as…

Announced today from American Express its new platform Serve, is looking to take on PayPal in the digital payment and commerce world. Just like PayPal, Serve can make purchases and person-to-person online transactions, as well as using it wherever American…

Earlier today Microsoft announced that it has filed a formal lawsuit against Barnes & Noble because of a patent infringement related to their Android-based Nook e-reader. Related to that, Microsoft is also taking legal action against Inventec and Foxconn who…

This story has been in the making for quite some time, The New York Times has always spoken of this change and not it has come into reality to take news to the next level. Starting off in Canada on…

It seems like we keep getting the same thing every time a small company becomes ultra popular. Patent trolls, as we call them, use the power of the U.S. government to apply for generalized patents that cover a wide base…