File this in the ‘dear lord here we go again' category. Fresh unsubstantiated hype has again taken to the Internet, pushing the idea that Microsoft and Nokia are, again, about...

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Twitter may only recently have completed its latest funding round, but it could soon have new, big-name investor if a report from Sky News today plays out. Saudi Arabia's Prince...

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Michael Arrington reports that Nuance is set to buy Swype for more than $100 million. Swype created an innovative gesture typing app for Android. Android users are able to enter text by swiping a finger across an on-screen keyboard. Nuance has its own FlexT9 Android app that provides multi-modal text input using speech, keyboard gestures, finger writing and predictive typing. Nuance's FlexT9 uses technology that came from an earlier company that was founded by Swype's Cliff Kushler.


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A little more than a year since Flipboard for the iPad launched, it has changed the way many people sort through news. It started out taking links from people a person follows on Twitter and Facebook and the expanding the links to display the actual news items in a magazine-like format. In this way, the people you like enough to follow on social networks curate news for you. Since then, it has grown to partner with featured content providers in addition to crowdsourced social network links. So, [...]

Read More: Plans Afoot to Include eBook Buying & Video Viewing in Flipboard for iPad

VentureBeat shared a rumor about a mini-trend for content providers providing iPad app that aggregate news content from sources other than their own. AOL's Editions app, is an example of this. VentureBeat says that CNN may acquire the news aggregation app Zite.


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With their $12.5B acquisition of Motorola Mobility this morning, Google is buying a lot of stuff. They're buying 20,000 employees (almost doubling their headcount.) They're buying an absurdly daunting armory of over 24,000 patents (I mean, come on: Motorola has the patent on the cell phone.) But there's one more thing that Google's buying, and it's one that shifts up the Android game all together: nearly 30% of Android's existing marketshare in the U.S.

After years of owning next to none of the [...]

Read More: By Buying Motorola, Google Can Now Do Whatever The Heck They Want With Android

Image courtesy of WikipediaGoogle's Android strategy has looked more like Microsoft's original Windows CE/Windows Mobile plan than Apple's iPhone plan up until today.Supercharging Android: Google to Acquire Motorola MobilityThe $12.5 billion purchase is framed as a vehicle to defend Android against Apple and Microsoft's recent patent attacks against Android.Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect And [...]

Read More: Google Buying Motorola Mobility: Reactions & Two Oddities in Google’s Announcement

Social media is becoming a mainstream business expense however there are very few resources available to guide customers in how to purchase. Like any new industry, there is a wide range of options, a few so not ethical players in the mix, and overall, a very confused and stressed marketplace. After all, who likes buying when you feel pressured and don't really understand what it is you need or want? Such is the state of social media sales. The Honolulu Chapter is [...]

Read More: Buying Social Media Services: Help Wanted