It was the same old pattern: when caught red-handed, countersue, claiming Samsung actually owned the patent or another one that the plaintiff company had used. Then, as the litigation dragged on, snap up a greater share of the market and settle when Samsung imports were about to be barred. Sharp had filed its lawsuit in

Apple has been interviewing senior payments industry executives to push ahead on a plan to build an electronic payments business, according to two people familiar with the process. […] Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s long-time e-commerce head, has met with candidates and is currently leading the initiative, according to these sources. “Their ambitions are very, very serious,” one of the

@TeamLoom, mein Foto-Backup-Dienst nach Everpix, retweetete das hier vor sieben Tagen: Heute gibt das Start-up seine Übernahme bekannt. Käufer? Dropbox! Die Speicherdetails, insofern man mit seinen Schnappschüssen zu Carousel emigrieren möchte, lauten wie folgt: And if you switch to Carousel, you will receive the same amount of free space that you had on Loom on

Facebook testet sein Check-In-Feature Places als Location-Datenbank für Instagram. Der von Zuckerberg aufgekaufte Fotodienst bezieht seine Standortinfos aktuell von Foursquare. Foursquare's database of venues is considered by many to be one of the freshest, updated incessantly by Foursquare's 45 million users and their billions of check-ins. Its integration with Instagram is often touted as an

Longreads, vor fünf Jahren als Hashtag von Mark Armstrong gestartet, erarbeitete sich als Kurator von lesenswerter Webliteratur einen festen Bookmark- und Twitter-Platz. “The world cannot live on 140 characters alone,” Mullenweg said. “Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.” Brad Stone | Businessweek Longreads bietet auch zukünftig den bezahlten

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that stripping Messenger out of the main Facebook app is not a test, and will at some point in the near future happen in every country. There are a few exceptions to the new rule, however. First, lower-end Android devices with memory constraints won’t be required to download

“Twitter at its best is when you’re using Twitter itself and engaging with people,” says OneThirtySeven writer and entrepreneur Matt Alexander. “Twitter at its worst is when it’s trying to put itself at the forefront of what you’re discussing. Twitter’s trying to be the object of discussion rather than the mediator,” with #music, he says,

Wie angekündigt veröffentlicht Medium.com, die Publishing-Plattform von Ev Williams (Twitter, Blogger), seine dedizierte iPhone-App (kostenlos; App-Store-Link). Und wie befürchtet, fällt sie im Moment in die Kategorie 'Deine Webseite braucht keine App'. Medium.com, die Webseite, besitzt diese schicke Kommentarfunktion, mit der sich Leser zu expliziten Textstellen äußern können. Die App kann genau das (noch?) nicht. Typografie