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Lionside, a company that makes Social games for sports fans has raised a funding of about $1.6 mn. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London and Surabaya, Indonesia. The funding was filed in SEC. The company had its first game launched in 2009 and is called Lionside Football. Lionside Football allows you to show your support of your favorite football club on Facebook by leveling up your team, and competing with your friends and rivals  

Apple’s I-Pad has enjoyed a relatively unchallenged run as one of the best and brightest computer innovations this year. It has had its own special niche in which to thrive, and it has ruled that niche with an iron grip for about half a year. But now, it is time for it to make some room in the tablet market. Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab is set to take the nation by storm. Using the latest Android technology, the Galaxy Tab is a smaller, more convenient tablet that anyone can pick up and use with ease. It is nearly 3 inches [...]

Major companies like Dell, Bank of America and Citigroup are in process of replacing existing Blackberry phones with alternatives like the Apple iPhone and Windows 7 based phones. Image via CrunchBase According WSJ, Dell plans to replace existing phones of its 25,000 employees with its own line of smartphones . ”Clearly in this decision we are competing with RIM, because we’re kicking them out,” the computer maker’s chief financial officer, Brian Gladden said. Dell will let employees chose either Windows Phone 7 or Google Android for its Dell Venue Pro.

Kevin Rose and his team might not have expected the outcome of the design changes in the New Digg . The sheer number of changes to the Digg meant resistance from its ardent fans. Kevin’s journey as the CEO of Digg has not been a smooth one. In a recent interview to TechCrunch(Disrupt conference) Rose admitted, “A mistake I made is that we had a passionate, dedicated community, and you can’t just retire features, and say to them, this is your new news page”. Digg has also lost a big portion of its traffic to its competitors which was also [...]

Google Instant, the latest offering from Google will definitely change how we search, how advertisers advertise on Google and the impact it will cast on the websites. For me, Google Instant is a big development even though the media has given very little coverage. Its not just another product from Google shelf, rather its a major technological shift in its flagship product-Google Search which has become an inseparable part of our daily lives. Google Instant will now update search results on the fly as people type their queries in the search box. People need not type in queries multiple times [...]

Apple fans have a reason to cheer. Leaked photo from 9to5mac shows Apple is introducing a front camera in its new iPad. What might have prompted Apple to include a camera in iPad was the fact that it was one of the major limitation in it. People expected at least a basic camera from a device that costs $500 and claims to be the next generation computing device. Apple has a closed approach about what goes into its products, that also explains why we do not see Flash player in any of Apple’s products. Apple’s flagship product, the iPhone has [...]