Chute, a photo collection startup has launched a new product called "Chute Rights" --- a digital rights management tool through which brands or publishers can contact content creators on social networks (Twitter, Facebook or Instagram) to secure permission to use their images. Chute uses hashtags to grab user-generated images on...

The global file-sharing king, BitTorrent today launched P2P-based direct publishing platform "BitTorrent Bundle" for publishers as a private alpha. The idea is to make direct-to-fan distribution easier for artists to share their legitimate content. The San Francisco-based technology and media company’s new self-service platform has 8 launch partners: Los Angeles-based...

Yeah, So it turns out that Apple sold a combined total of nine million iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c smartphones over the weekend --- almost double the previous record. Apple also announced over 200 million iPhones are already running the new iOS 7 software. The Cupertino, California-based company allowed customers...

The 2013 StartupBus Europe Annual Buspreneur Competition is coming to a city near you - building an entrepreneurial ecosystem (buspreneur) in a traveling show. You can also be part of the experience, you should register now! Online registration is closing soon - October 20th!.   >>> Head on over to...

The Chinese Internet giant Tencent, which operates the popular WeChat smartphone messaging app and various other online services in China is now worth almost as much as Facebook Inc. It's market capitalization just topped US$100 billion, coming close to Facebook’s market cap of about US$103.5 billion --- Tencent rival Baidu’s...

Exciting news, Hotspotio has launched an Android app designed to share and connect your WiFi hotspot with your Linkedin connections, Twitter followers, and Facebook friends. And the best part? Using Hotspotio is free. Once Hotspotio is installed --- When you are logged on to Hotspotio you can see what networks...

Newly elected reformist-backed President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hasan Rouhani is urging his government staff and ministers to join Facebook social network, and he himself is active on Twitter and Facebook.  The Facebook pages of 15 ministers could be viewed in Tehran through a proxy server. >>> Hasan...

The social network company, Facebook is in the process of implementing a new feature to your profile - Professional Skills, mirroring LinkedIn. In this new section, displayed immediately after your "Work and Education", you can add aadd multiple abilities in your timeline. I believe, the importance of new "Facebook Professional...

Seattle-based online shopping research and price comparison site Decide.com has been acquired by web retail giant eBay. Founded in 2010, it Uses predictive analytics to help consumers decide whether they should buy a product now or wait for the price to drop. Decide.com's services, website and mobile apps will cease...

The social search engine, Topsy, now allows you to scan the entire history of your public Twitter messages (every tweets) to its real-time data platform --- since the dawn of the real-time social network Twitter. Social analytics platform indexes every public tweet ever published on Twitter for search and analysis,...