$4.3M in funding, 20 employees, and 70 apps using its platform. What's the key to Kiip‘s success? Happiness, says founder Brian Wong. I sat down with Kiip's founder and CEO...

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The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism issued the results of a study on how people use tablets. It focuses on the main activities performed daily on tablets. Some of the findings are slighlty but not entirely surprising. Hint: Social is not number one or two.


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Sometimes it's the simple things in life that grab your attention and give you a smile. Facebook has always been my crutch for remembering the birthdays of my friends and...

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After a false start last night, the free Skype for iPad app is now available in the iTunes App StoreSkype for iPad is Available. Oops! It Disappeared (Social Times)Skype 1.0 for iPad (Skype Garage)Skype for iPad (iTunes App Store)I installed it on an iPad 2 and am unimpressed so far. Here's why.Skype for iPhone runs on an iPad. Granted, it does not scale to the iPad's large display without pixelation. But, it runs fine on the iPad. The new iPad specific version of the app does not add any functi [...]

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Five years ago today (July 15th) a new social network was launched to the public – Twitter, which was originally called Twttr. Biz Stone made the first announcement on July 13, 2006 and they were calling it "present tense blogging" and describing it as a way to strip down blogging. Twitter has now grown into ...

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