Asus' Transformer Infinity Pad Tablet to Ship in a Month
Posted by PCWorld
Asus' highly anticipated Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T tablet, a challenger to Apple's new iPad, will become available in late June or early July, a company[...]
Continue ReadingGrubwithus Served $5M By GRP, Michel Daher To Take Its Social Dining Global
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Grubwithus, the social dining network and 2011 Y Combinator grad, announced today that it has secured $5 million in new funding to snack on, led by GRP Partners with contribution from Lebanese entrepreneur Michel Daher, who is best known as the founder of Daher Foods and its Master Chips and Poppins cereal brands, two of the largest consumer packaged goods brands in the MENA region.
The startup’s Series A round follows the $1.6 million in seed funding it raised this time last year from a slew of prominent investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, NEA, SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher, Yuri Milner, Matt Cutts, Paul Buchheit, Alexis Ohanian, and Start Fund — to name a[...]
Continue ReadingThe startup’s Series A round follows the $1.6 million in seed funding it raised this time last year from a slew of prominent investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, NEA, SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher, Yuri Milner, Matt Cutts, Paul Buchheit, Alexis Ohanian, and Start Fund — to name a[...]
Mary Meeker: “Mobile Monetization Has More Going For It Than Early Desktop Monetization Had”
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We’ve heard a lot about how monetizing mobile content is difficult in the context of Facebook’s recent IPO. A lot of the company’s growth is coming from mobile, after all, but it’s currently very hard to make money of this mobile traffic. At AllThingsD’s D10 conference today, Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker released her annual overview of Internet trends and she, too, highlighted this mobile monetization problem.
Here is the good news: Global mobile Internet traffic is growing rapidly right now and has now reached about 10% of all Internet traffic. Mobile commerce now makes up about 8% of U.S. e-commerce and grew over 15% last year.
At the same time, mobile[...]
Continue ReadingHere is the good news: Global mobile Internet traffic is growing rapidly right now and has now reached about 10% of all Internet traffic. Mobile commerce now makes up about 8% of U.S. e-commerce and grew over 15% last year.
At the same time, mobile[...]
Can this app cure depression?
Posted by VentureBeat
It may be time to sack your therapist. The researchers conducting the world’s first clinical study on the use of smartphone apps to treat depression have given VentureBeat a preview of the results. 73.5 percent of depressed participants who used an application called Viary, were no longer considered to be depressed by the end of the study.
Depression is a common and costly problem in developed countries. 15 to 17 percent of the population will suffer from a depressive disorder at some stage in their lives and depression is expected to be the highest disease burden, or the health problem with the greatest negative impact on society in terms of financial cost and mortality, by the year 2[...]
Continue ReadingDepression is a common and costly problem in developed countries. 15 to 17 percent of the population will suffer from a depressive disorder at some stage in their lives and depression is expected to be the highest disease burden, or the health problem with the greatest negative impact on society in terms of financial cost and mortality, by the year 2[...]
Microsoft says it has sold 67M Xbox 360s, 19M Kinects, and generated $56B in game revenues
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Microsoft said today that it has generated more than $56 billion at retail from its game business, and it has sold 67 million Xbox 360 consoles since 2005. It has also sold more than 19 million Kinect motion sensors since 2010.
Yusuf Mehdi, the chief marketing officer of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Division, said on the Microsoft blog that the Xbox 360 holds a 47 percent share of the current-generation U.S. console market. Xbox Live now has more than 40 million members who spend an average of 84 hours per month with the console. Back in October, Microsoft had said it had sold 57 million Xbox 360s.
By comparison, Nintendo has sold an estimated 96 million Wii consoles and Sony[...]
Continue ReadingYusuf Mehdi, the chief marketing officer of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Division, said on the Microsoft blog that the Xbox 360 holds a 47 percent share of the current-generation U.S. console market. Xbox Live now has more than 40 million members who spend an average of 84 hours per month with the console. Back in October, Microsoft had said it had sold 57 million Xbox 360s.
By comparison, Nintendo has sold an estimated 96 million Wii consoles and Sony[...]
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