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Burstly Acquired By Apple

Apple buys up yet another company, and it isn’t even the end of February yet. Burstly is the parent company of popular mobile app testing platform, TestFlight. TechCrunch received a number of leads and announced last Friday that Apple was the suspected purchaser. Hints that something was going on began last Wednesday when TestFlight made announcements […]

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Lisa mouse used by Steve Jobs is retreived from time capsule

A video that was acquired by CNET that shows part of the excavation of the “Steve Jobs Time Capsule” recording during the show Diggers on the National Geographic Channel from last year. The show is gearing up for its season premiere, and full details of the excavation of the Steve Jobs Time Capsule will start […]

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If you thought Google+ was a joke, maybe the joke was on us

Are you an avid Google+ user? Yeah, me neither, but there are still a few people who seem to actively use it, if for no other reason than to advertise their blog posts. I think for me personally, it was just one social network too many, too late. I was already on Twitter, Facebook, Path, […]

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Just the thing if you’re feeling nostalgic about the PowerBook

This website was pretty much founded on writing about Apple’s PowerBook line, so I thought this would be a nifty tidbit to pass along. For those of you whose history with the Mac only dates back to around five years, the PowerBook line was the first series of Mac laptops. When Apple made the jump […]

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WhatsApp finally gets its buyout netting a cool $19 billion

Last Spring, rumors were in the air that Google might be buying up the messaging app WhatsApp, the iMessage-like online texting service, but the sale never happened. Honestly, I had forgotten that the Google acquisition didn’t happen, so I was really surprised when Facebook announced it was snapping it up. Yes, that number is correct, […]