Pottermore has partnered with Kobo to make the Harry Potter e-books available on Kobo devices. Pottermore has similar arrangements with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony and Google (but not Apple yet). Read More »
Compared to Mexico, the web and mobile startup ecosystem in Brazil is hot — probably too hot. Here’s 10 things you should know if you want to build, buy, invest in or work at a tech startup in Brazil. Read More »
Mounting evidence suggests Europe’s mobile operators are becoming increasingly censorious, thanks to haphazard adult content filters that are applied to millions of users. The result? De facto, unregulated censorship that screens out thousands of legitimate websites, including GigaOM. Read More »
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Yale researchers Daniel Abadi and Alexander Thomson think they have developed the cure for Oracle and IBM dominance in the world of database performance, and it isn’t even technically a database. The two have created a system they think can level the playing field. Read More »
New York-based Internet company Betaworks is announcing today that, along with Glam CFO Bruce Jaffe, it is making a “significant” investment in Stockholm-based, visual RSS reader Bloglovin. Read More »
Verizon Wireless plans to close down the mobile broadband buffet for good, phasing out unlimited plans as customers upgrade from 3G phones to 4G. According to Verizon, it must turn off the unlimited spigot as a prerequisite for moving to shared family data plans. Read More »
Google is trying to encourage searchers to spend more time on its pages while also hoping they’ll continue to think of the search company as their first destination when looking for information. A new feature called Knowledge Graph is a step in that direction. Read More »
Get a peek behind the scenes of the hacker space Casa da Cultura Digital, or the House of Digital Culture in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Read More »
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