Gigaom: Philips to debut two new Hue connected lighting products this week
The Bloom will cost $80, the LightStrips $90, according to Engadget, who also reports that the new lights will join the original Hue bulb on Apple Store shelves starting this Thursday…
View ArticleGigaom: For mobile payments, women use Starbucks app, college kids use Venmo...
Paying with a phone has a long way to go with mobile users. Onavo Insights shared some data it gathered from users of its app over the past year to give…
View ArticleGigaom: Want your app on the Kindle Fire? Amazon’s Appstore now accepting web...
Developers can submit their HTML5 apps directly to Amazon and incorporate in-app purchase and other Amazon services. These apps will be sold alongside Android apps in the Amazon Appstore. Here's one…
View ArticleGigaom: 500px photo-sharing service scoops up $8.8M to expand into commercial...
500px's CEO says the company needs the investment to hire more people and build an entirely new 500px product: a commercial licensing platform to help photographers license their images for commercial…
View ArticleGigaom: Even as Apple sells more iPhones, its share of smartphone market falls
Still, Apple easily remained No. 2 behind the ever-growing market for Android smartphones, according to IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker Despite selling more iPhones than it did a year ago, Apple(s…
View ArticleGigaom: iTunes Movies in the Cloud to go live in 8 new countries
More than a year after iTunes Movies in the Cloud rolled out in the U.S., Apple(s AAPL) is continuing to expand the service's availability. It will go live next in Austria,…
View ArticleGigaom: Apple’s move away from Samsung for chips should boost foundry fortunes
With Apple's deal for buying chips from TSMC, the revenue for the chip foundry market is expected rise 21 percent by the end of this year. The overall semiconductor market is…
View ArticleGigaom: Why wearable computers will need advances in notification technology...
App makers say wearable computers will be just one of many screens we'll use. And that means in the future they'll be designing for the person, not a particular screen. As…
View ArticleGigaom: Apple CEO attends Obama-led meeting about government surveillance
There aren't many details on what was discussed, but it's apparently just one of a series of meetings the Obama administration has held recently with tech industry representatives about privacy and…
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