Yahoo recently bagged the popular blogging site, Tumblr, in a rather sizable buyout raking in more than a billion dollars. The buyout has been criticized by many, although Yahoo has vowed to keep Tumblr as awesome as it has been. According to reports, Tumblr’s Creative Director has now decided to quit the company.
Over the recent years, Intel has tried hard to find itself a sizable space in the tablet market. However, not many notable vendors have used Intel chips in their smartphones or tablets. Now, though, Intel seems to have landed a fine deal with Samsung, with reports citing that the latter’s upcoming Galaxy tablet may feature an Intel processor.
The education pricing that Apple offers on its MacBook Pro machines is usually significantly lower than the standard prices. Now, Apple has further dropped the education price of entry-level MacBook Pro, bringing it down from $1099 to $999.
At the AllThingsD D11 conference, Apple’s chief Tim Cook opened up during an interview, talking at length about Android, the future of OS X and iOS, as well as a number of other issues. Given below are few glimpses of his talk and the opinions he cited towards the aforementioned issues.
A number of companies try to keep their websites and services in check by offering ‘bounty’ on the discovery of new bugs and vulnerabilities. PayPal is also a part of this list, offering rewards for such findings under its ‘Bug Bounty Program.’ However, the company recently refused to pay a teenager after he found a vulnerability in its website.
Curiosity is an amazing project that was launched by Peter Molyneux seven months ago. It was an experiment of sorts, which involved people tapping at the cubelets of a giant cube and chipping away to reach to the center. Now, as it turns out, someone has finally reached the center and revealed the secrets of Curiosity.
Liberty reserve, a portal for money transfer, had been under money-laundering investigations for a long while now. The authorities have apparently found evidence that links the website to the said charges, leading to the arrest of Liberty Reserve’s founder.
In the past, HP was mildly criticized when the company dished out notebooks which bore some similarities in design to Apple’s Mac notebooks. However, it would seem that HP paid little heed to such criticism as the company unveiled new Envy notebooks which seems to be MacBook look-alike.