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A $100b dollar company was born solely out of the desire of a college geek to meet girls. #thoughtoftheday #motivationiseverything
— Michael Gartenberg (@Gartenberg) May 17, 2012
How do I feel about all the Flipboard clones? I’d rather be competing with 1,000 copy cats than 1,000 innovators.
— Mike McCue (@mmccue) May 11, 2012
Recognizing the lack of app recognition in its library for Windows Phone, Microsoft has been working on a way to convert data from Android apps into the same apps on Windows Phone. This method will catalog the apps you have on your Android phone and seek the same apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace and install them during set up. If no corresponding or compatible app is found, it will notify you of when it is available. At the moment Windows Phone has close to 100 thousand apps in the Marketplace while Google Play has more than half a million. This means while some of the more popular ones exist on both platforms, such as Foursquare, Evernote, Endomondo, Skype, and Twitter, many others are still not available on Windows Phone.
At $38 per share, Facebook will raise the largest round of funding through an IPO for a technology company. In just eight years, the social network will be valued at around half of Google’ current value and some in the industry are saying that the $38 per share price is actually lower than it could have been as it was reached after the company released tens of millions of more shares in the last few days than initially offered. Steve Wozniak, who is coming to Jakarta in July said earlier this week that he would invest in Facebook regardless of the initial price.
Facebook sets its IPO at $38 per share, giving it a $104 billion valuation. More than Disney’s $81 billion. The first time an American company reached a $100 billion valuation was Exxon in 1996, 159 years after it was founded. Facebook took eight years. The IPO makes Facebook worth more than Yahoo, Priceline, Zynga, Groupon, Netflix, AOL, and Pandora combined.
I swear I’m not the one behind this.
Samsung surged four percent in a year to overtake Nokia as top mobile phone seller while the Finnish company drops over five percent and Apple doubles its market share. RIM languishes behind ZTE, LG and Huawei and HTC globally slumped to under two percent
Google introduces the knowledge graph.
The Knowledge Graph is a huge collection of the people, places and things in the world and how they’re connected to one another. With this technology, Google can get you the best possible answers and help jump start your discovery.
Evernote releases a completely revamped Android app.
Photo editing company Aviary has released a development kit for Windows Phone for other apps to use as their image editor of choice. As Windows Phone is still in its early period, Aviary hopes to become the leading partner for photo apps on the platform. The free SDK allows all sorts of applications to add photo editing components without having to build it themselves. As GeekWire noted, third party Twitter app Rowi is among the first to adopt Aviary. It also offers SDK for iOS and Android. Aviary recently replaced Piknik as the image editor for Flickr users.
