Latest and Hotest Technology Updates: August 2012

Facebook To Roll Out Email- and Phone Number-Based Ad Targeting Next Week

Facebook will be launching new features next week that allow advertisers to target their ads to customers based on contact information that the advertiser has... read more

Jordan Crook

This Is The Best Look At The New iPhone Yet

Ah, the next-gen iPhone. What more can we say? Almost sadly, we already know the screen will be bigger, the connecting port is smaller, and the design will be... read more

Matt Burns

Hello Beautiful! Nokia's Windows Phone 8 820/920 PureView Smartphones Leak

Another day, another leak -- this time, a set of new images that purportedly depict Nokia's next set of Lumia smartphones have begun to make the rounds. Coming... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Nokia + Microsoft Kick Off $23M AppCampus Incubator: Over $1M Going To 36 Startups

Next week Nokia and Microsoft are expected to unveil the first handset(s) running on Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform, and today comes news about the apps... read more

Alex Williams

How Twitter Uses Open Source

Twitter's Chris Aniszcyk gave the keynote this morning at CloudOpen and talked about how Twitter uses open source.... read more

Sarah Perez

Chomp-Inspired iOS 6 App Store Redesign Could Impact Long Tail Of App Developers

It appears that at least some of the innovations found in early 2012 Apple acquisition Chomp, a mobile app search and discovery platform, have made their way... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Smart TVs Fail To Score With Consumers In U.S. And Other Western Markets: GfK

Here's one reason why Apple may not be producing a television with its name blazoned on it in the near term: it doesn't look like people have, so far, shown... read more

Ryan Lawler

ShoutEm Launches Development Platform To Make HTML5 Mobile Apps Look Native

When ShoutEm was first launched back in 2008, it was focused on helping users to build their own social networking platforms. Well, the world has changed, and... read more

Rip Empson

Watsi Is Using Crowdfunding To Treat The 1B+ Worldwide Without Access To Medical Care

Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big,... read more

Rip Empson

With $275M In Capital Deployed To Main Street Businesses, On Deck Raises $100M Of Its Own

We make a lot of noise about the venture capital and angel funding startups raise to help grow their businesses. But there are a lot of mom-and-pop shops out... read more

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Facebook To Roll Out Email- and Phone Number-Based Ad Targeting Next Week

Facebook will be launching new features next week that allow advertisers to target their ads to customers based on contact information that the advertiser has... read more

Jordan Crook

This Is The Best Look At The New iPhone Yet

Ah, the next-gen iPhone. What more can we say? Almost sadly, we already know the screen will be bigger, the connecting port is smaller, and the design will be... read more

Matt Burns

Hello Beautiful! Nokia's Windows Phone 8 820/920 PureView Smartphones Leak

Another day, another leak -- this time, a set of new images that purportedly depict Nokia's next set of Lumia smartphones have begun to make the rounds. Coming... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Nokia + Microsoft Kick Off $23M AppCampus Incubator: Over $1M Going To 36 Startups

Next week Nokia and Microsoft are expected to unveil the first handset(s) running on Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform, and today comes news about the apps... read more

Alex Williams

How Twitter Uses Open Source

Twitter's Chris Aniszcyk gave the keynote this morning at CloudOpen and talked about how Twitter uses open source.... read more

Sarah Perez

Chomp-Inspired iOS 6 App Store Redesign Could Impact Long Tail Of App Developers

It appears that at least some of the innovations found in early 2012 Apple acquisition Chomp, a mobile app search and discovery platform, have made their way... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Smart TVs Fail To Score With Consumers In U.S. And Other Western Markets: GfK

Here's one reason why Apple may not be producing a television with its name blazoned on it in the near term: it doesn't look like people have, so far, shown... read more

Ryan Lawler

ShoutEm Launches Development Platform To Make HTML5 Mobile Apps Look Native

When ShoutEm was first launched back in 2008, it was focused on helping users to build their own social networking platforms. Well, the world has changed, and... read more

Rip Empson

Watsi Is Using Crowdfunding To Treat The 1B+ Worldwide Without Access To Medical Care

Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big,... read more

Rip Empson

With $275M In Capital Deployed To Main Street Businesses, On Deck Raises $100M Of Its Own

We make a lot of noise about the venture capital and angel funding startups raise to help grow their businesses. But there are a lot of mom-and-pop shops out... read more

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Is Facebook Testing Out New Newsfeed And Skyscraper Display Ad Units In New Zealand? No, Adware Strikes Again

New Zealand was the first country to get Facebook's new-look Timeline last December. Now the country looks like it may be putting in another special appearance,... read more

Matt Burns

Amazon Wants Everyone To Know The Kindle Fire Is Sold Out

New Kindles are coming! New Kindles are coming! And Amazon is trying its hardest to build up hype.... read more

Jordan Crook

Galactic Status: Virgin Airlines Offers One Frequent Flier A Trip To Space

Virgin is one of my favorite airlines to fly on — it's kind of like the airline of the future, with interactive displays in every head rest, cool... read more

Romain Dillet

Could This Be Amazon's New Kindle Fire?

After this morning's news that the Kindle Fire is now sold out, The Verge received a leaked photo of what is purported to be the next Kindle Fire. Two models... read more

Sarah Perez

Facebook Saturation?: Twitter, Skype, Instagram & Other Apps Downloaded More In July

Based on downloads, Facebook's iPhone app was no longer the most popular mobile social networking app in many Asian countries and elsewhere from July 2011 to... read more

Sarah Perez

Wallaby Raises $1.1 Million For Cloud-Based, Universal Credit Card

Wallaby Financial, a startup that's building a cloud-based wallet that will optimize the rewards, points, airline miles, and other benefits consumers earn when... read more

Sarah Perez

In Battle With Amazon, Walmart Unveils Polaris, A Semantic Search Engine For Products

Walmart is today unveiling a new search engine named "Polaris" which now powers Walmart.com, as well as the company's mobile web and mobile apps, and offers a... read more

Jordan Crook

AT&T Opens A Swanky 10,000 Sq. Ft. Flagship Store In Chi-Town

Today, AT&T opened up its 10,000 square foot flagship retail store on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. It's a bit of a beast, with an 18-foot Connect Wall that... read more

Frederic Lardinois

Lunar Lander In HTML5: Atari Teams Up With Microsoft To Bring 8 Classic Games To The Browser

Atari is turning 40 this year and with the help of Microsoft and the HTML5 specialists at gskinner.com, it is now bringing eight of its most popular classic... read more

Frederic Lardinois

Wolfram Alpha Launches Personal Analytics Reports For Facebook

Wolfram Alpha, the "computational knowledge engine" that quietly handles a large number of queries from Apple's Siri, launched a new feature today that allows... read more

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Is Facebook Testing Out New Newsfeed And Skyscraper Display Ad Units In New Zealand? No, Adware Strikes Again

New Zealand was the first country to get Facebook's new-look Timeline last December. Now the country looks like it may be putting in another special appearance,... read more

Matt Burns

Amazon Wants Everyone To Know The Kindle Fire Is Sold Out

New Kindles are coming! New Kindles are coming! And Amazon is trying its hardest to build up hype.... read more

Sarah Perez

Facebook Saturation?: Twitter, Skype, Instagram & Other Apps Downloaded More In July

Based on downloads, Facebook's iPhone app was no longer the most popular mobile social networking app in many Asian countries and elsewhere from July 2011 to... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Amazon vs B&N Heats Up In Europe: Android Appstore Goes Live In UK, Germany, France, Italy & Spain; B&N Adds More Nook Retailers

In what might be the closest sign yet we've seen to Amazon preparing to launch the Kindle Fire tablet outside of the U.S., Amazon is finally launching its... read more

Sarah Perez

Wallaby Raises $1.1 Million For Cloud-Based, Universal Credit Card

Wallaby Financial, a startup that's building a cloud-based wallet that will optimize the rewards, points, airline miles, and other benefits consumers earn when... read more

Ryan Lawler

Revealed: Mint.com Could Soon Fire Back At Simple With A Debit Card Of Its Own

Earlier today, online banking startup Simple unveiled new reporting features that will allow users to see how much -- and where -- they're spending money in... read more

Frederic Lardinois

Lunar Lander In HTML5: Atari Teams Up With Microsoft To Bring 8 Classic Games To The Browser

Atari is turning 40 this year and with the help of Microsoft and the HTML5 specialists at gskinner.com, it is now bringing eight of its most popular classic... read more

Jordan Crook

AT&T Opens A Swanky 10,000 Sq. Ft. Flagship Store In Chi-Town

Today, AT&T opened up its 10,000 square foot flagship retail store on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. It's a bit of a beast, with an 18-foot Connect Wall that... read more

Steve O'Hear

Payleven, The Rocket-Fueled Square-Clone, Opens In UK, Netherlands, Brazil; Confirms Double-Digit Round

Rocket Internet, the incubator/investment vehicle from the Samwer brothers, is known to move fast: Today, news comes that Payeleven, its recently outed... read more

Ingrid Lunden

IDC: Android-Crazy China Passes U.S. As Smartphone Leader, But India's Growing The Fastest

The latest figures out from IDC confirm that this is the year that China will overtake the U.S. as the world's biggest smartphone market, with its 25.5% share a... read more

Read more at techcrunch.com

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Anthony Ha

Facebook will be launching new features next week that allow advertisers to target their ads to customers based on contact information that the advertiser has... read more

Jordan Crook

Ah, the next-gen iPhone. What more can we say? Almost sadly, we already know the screen will be bigger, the connecting port is smaller, and the design will be... read more

Matt Burns

Another day, another leak -- this time, a set of new images that purportedly depict Nokia's next set of Lumia smartphones have begun to make the rounds. Coming... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Next week Nokia and Microsoft are expected to unveil the first handset(s) running on Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform, and today comes news about the apps... read more

Alex Williams

Twitter's Chris Aniszcyk gave the keynote this morning at CloudOpen and talked about how Twitter uses open source.... read more

Sarah Perez

It appears that at least some of the innovations found in early 2012 Apple acquisition Chomp, a mobile app search and discovery platform, have made their way... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Here's one reason why Apple may not be producing a television with its name blazoned on it in the near term: it doesn't look like people have, so far, shown... read more

Ryan Lawler

When ShoutEm was first launched back in 2008, it was focused on helping users to build their own social networking platforms. Well, the world has changed, and... read more

Rip Empson

Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big,... read more

Rip Empson

We make a lot of noise about the venture capital and angel funding startups raise to help grow their businesses. But there are a lot of mom-and-pop shops out... read more

Anthony Ha

Facebook will be launching new features next week that allow advertisers to target their ads to customers based on contact information that the advertiser has... read more

Jordan Crook

Ah, the next-gen iPhone. What more can we say? Almost sadly, we already know the screen will be bigger, the connecting port is smaller, and the design will be... read more

Matt Burns

Another day, another leak -- this time, a set of new images that purportedly depict Nokia's next set of Lumia smartphones have begun to make the rounds. Coming... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Next week Nokia and Microsoft are expected to unveil the first handset(s) running on Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform, and today comes news about the apps... read more

Alex Williams

Twitter's Chris Aniszcyk gave the keynote this morning at CloudOpen and talked about how Twitter uses open source.... read more

Sarah Perez

It appears that at least some of the innovations found in early 2012 Apple acquisition Chomp, a mobile app search and discovery platform, have made their way... read more

Ingrid Lunden

Here's one reason why Apple may not be producing a television with its name blazoned on it in the near term: it doesn't look like people have, so far, shown... read more

Ryan Lawler

When ShoutEm was first launched back in 2008, it was focused on helping users to build their own social networking platforms. Well, the world has changed, and... read more

Rip Empson

Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big,... read more

Rip Empson

We make a lot of noise about the venture capital and angel funding startups raise to help grow their businesses. But there are a lot of mom-and-pop shops out... read more

Ingrid Lunden

New Zealand was the first country to get Facebook's new-look Timeline last December. Now the country looks like it may be putting in another special appearance,... read more

Matt Burns

New Kindles are coming! New Kindles are coming! And Amazon is trying its hardest to build up hype.... read more

Jordan Crook

Virgin is one of my favorite airlines to fly on — it's kind of like the airline of the future, with interactive displays in every head rest, cool... read more

Romain Dillet

After this morning's news that the Kindle Fire is now sold out, The Verge received a leaked photo of what is purported to be the next Kindle Fire. Two models... read more

Sarah Perez

Based on downloads, Facebook's iPhone app was no longer the most popular mobile social networking app in many Asian countries and elsewhere from July 2011 to... read more

Sarah Perez

Wallaby Financial, a startup that's building a cloud-based wallet that will optimize the rewards, points, airline miles, and other benefits consumers earn when... read more

Sarah Perez

Walmart is today unveiling a new search engine named "Polaris" which now powers Walmart.com, as well as the company's mobile web and mobile apps, and offers a... read more

Jordan Crook

Today, AT&T opened up its 10,000 square foot flagship retail store on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. It's a bit of a beast, with an 18-foot Connect Wall that... read more

Frederic Lardinois

Atari is turning 40 this year and with the help of Microsoft and the HTML5 specialists at gskinner.com, it is now bringing eight of its most popular classic... read more

Frederic Lardinois

Wolfram Alpha, the "computational knowledge engine" that quietly handles a large number of queries from Apple's Siri, launched a new feature today that allows... read more

Ingrid Lunden

New Zealand was the first country to get Facebook's new-look Timeline last December. Now the country looks like it may be putting in another special appearance,... read more

Matt Burns

New Kindles are coming! New Kindles are coming! And Amazon is trying its hardest to build up hype.... read more

Sarah Perez

Based on downloads, Facebook's iPhone app was no longer the most popular mobile social networking app in many Asian countries and elsewhere from July 2011 to... read more

Ingrid Lunden

In what might be the closest sign yet we've seen to Amazon preparing to launch the Kindle Fire tablet outside of the U.S., Amazon is finally launching its... read more

Sarah Perez

Wallaby Financial, a startup that's building a cloud-based wallet that will optimize the rewards, points, airline miles, and other benefits consumers earn when... read more

Ryan Lawler

Earlier today, online banking startup Simple unveiled new reporting features that will allow users to see how much -- and where -- they're spending money in... read more

Frederic Lardinois

Atari is turning 40 this year and with the help of Microsoft and the HTML5 specialists at gskinner.com, it is now bringing eight of its most popular classic... read more

Jordan Crook

Today, AT&T opened up its 10,000 square foot flagship retail store on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. It's a bit of a beast, with an 18-foot Connect Wall that... read more

Steve O'Hear

Rocket Internet, the incubator/investment vehicle from the Samwer brothers, is known to move fast: Today, news comes that Payeleven, its recently outed... read more

Ingrid Lunden

The latest figures out from IDC confirm that this is the year that China will overtake the U.S. as the world's biggest smartphone market, with its 25.5% share a... read more