Peter Yared is founder and CEO of social app development company Transpond.
XAuth, Google’s attempt to head off Facebook’s domination of online content sharing, is fraught with problems. It appears to be built with good intentions, allowing smaller social services to persist in a Facebook- and Twitter-dominated world. But unlike OAuth, the standard many of those...
BlackArrow — a provider of advertising products for “new TV” platforms like video on demand, DVR, mobile, and online video — has announced that it has raised $20 million in third-round funding. In addition, it has formed a partnership with NDS, a company which enables TV operators, content owners, and others to deliver content to...
Apple is looking to get into the concert and event ticketing business, according to recent patents discovered by Patently Apple. The patent describes an iTunes-based system and accompanying iPhone application called Concert Ticket +. Its aim is to simplify ticket purchasing and usage at a variety of events, including concerts, sporting events, amusement parks, trade...
Mason Wiley is senior VP of marketing at digital ad platform operator Hydra.
True to prediction, Twitter announced that its new master plan for monetization is to copy Google create a search-based ad platform. While it includes a few laudable features, I share the view that Twitter has failed to capitalize on the...
Google today answered a longstanding question today about its web-centric netbook operating system, Chrome OS: How do you print? Its solution is Google Cloud Print, a web-based method for handling print jobs in web applications, and web-enabled platforms like Chrome OS, Android, and even the iPhone.
Instead of using local printer drivers and software to manage...
I just returned home from Chirp, Twitter’s developer conference in San Francisco, where I had the chance to participate on a panel about investing in the Twitter ecosystem. Between the panel, the rest of the conference, and some 1:1 conversations with Twitter execs, I have a handful of takeaways for Twitter...
Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation. Peter Yared is founder and CEO of social app development company Transpond.
[Disclosure: my company, Transpond, provides social engagement apps for numerous media companies including CBS and NBC.]
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Viacom has released a new set of documents that the media conglomerate says bolsters its copyright lawsuit against Google. In Viacom’s words, it’s hoping to show that when the search giant acquired YouTube in 2006, it made “a deliberate, calculated business decision” to profit from copyright infringement and “to use the threat of copyright infringement...
