Visa and MasterCard are introducing Internet-based technologies to make it easier for shoppers to buy things at retail stores without pulling out a credit card. The two technologies, announced separately…
NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) announced today that Anthony Watson will become the company’s new Chief Information Officer (CIO). Watson, a seasoned veteran of the information technology business, joins NIKE from Barclays…
iBook charts for week ending Feb 17, 2014: Top Paid Books 1. L.A. by James Patterson & Mark Sullivan (Little, Brown and Company) 2. Divergent by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen…
Google has acquired Israeli start-up SlickLogin. No financial details have been disclosed but the acquisition is believed to be on an “acqui-hiring” basis, in other words buying the staff and…
Facebook announced Thursday that its 159 million U.S. users now have dozens of options for completing the gender question on their profiles. The social media giant has been working with…
TOKYO–Rakuten Inc (4755:Tokyo), one of the world’s largest Internet services companies, announced today its acquisition of pioneering messaging and VoIP company, Viber. Rakuten will acquire Viber for a total consideration…
The first phase of a city pilot program of firefighters using iPads and other tablet computers drew praise from officials as helping the department improve both its response times and…
Welcome to the Mobile Olympics. Some of the official apps for phones and tablets are slicker and easier to use than their website counterparts. It’s as though the app developers…
Google has passed Exxon to become the second most valuable U.S. company by market capitalization. According to FactSet data, the Internet company’s market capitalization surpassed that of oil company Exxon…
Explore your options when looking for the best deals online By now, travelers of any age realize that if they don’t use online resources they have almost zero chance of…
Four years ago at the last Winter Olympics in Vancouver, NBC streamed just two events live — ice hockey and curling. All 15 venues will be live-streamed at the Games…
It has been 10 years since a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg created a website called Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online. They did. And in the…
Apple has always used third-party content delivery networks (CDNs) to deliver content to its customers, but it has long been speculated that the company wants their own CDN. These days…
Redesigned Citi Mobile App Optimizes Navigation and Adds Key Mobile Features for Banking and Credit Card Customers Today Citi launched its redesigned Citi Mobile App for iPhone and Android devices…
LEWISTON – Niagara University has launched a new app that will connect the world to the campus, giving users access to news, events and scores, as well as an employee…
