Rocco Penn — Two Takes contributions

Opera Mini, which so happens to be the browser version that casts a glance at older devices which happen to still run on Java-based platforms, has been given an update to bump up the version number to version 8. This is not just new wine in an old wineskin, but rather, it will boast of a restyled [&

Alipay, the online payment subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba, and Internet titan Tencent are both set to expand further into the financial sector with the launch of new online credit cards on Tuesday. In a statement sent to the Global Times Tuesday, Alipay said it is joining with China CITIC Ba

Early-stage mobile payments app Flypay has announced it has closed £1m from venture capital firm Entreé Capital to support its roll out across the UK. London-based Flypay is a free-to-use app which claims to end the “10 minute restaurant bill chase” by making it easier and quicker to pay for a bill

IBM is utterly focused on big data and analytics as its future growth engines, according to its annual report published over the weekend. But the company has hedged a little on the future of its semiconductor and hardware businesses. Rometty claims IBM has “built the world’s broadest and deepest cap

SXSW is about to get even more interesting than normal. Secret, the app which lets you share anonymously amongst friends and friends of friends, has announced a web feed of SXSW ‘secrets’ that are posted from there or mention it. You can check it out at secret.ly/sxsw. We’ll have more info in just a

Let the carrier wars continue. AT&T has just announced that it is dropping the price of its two-gigabyte Mobile Share Value plan by $15 in total. AT&T’s 2GB plan currently costs $55 as a base price. That’s dropping down $15 to $40, which represents most of the savings one’s

Yahoo’s growth appears to be in some way dependent on the widespread acquisition and subsequent annihilation of some of the Internet’s most promising startups, and no one can figure out why. ReadWrite reports that since Marissa Mayer took over in July 2012, 31 of 38 startup companies acquired by the

The annual billionaire list for Forbes has more interesting things to note this year than ever. The most important news being Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates regaining his position as the world’s richest man after a span of four years, which is worthy of being mentioned after the recent years troubl

We’d heard this project was underway but now it’s official: AT&T and Aruba Networks are the forces behind a new Wi-Fi network at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, a 21,000-seat facility that is home to the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA and the Dallas Stars of the NHL. According to an AT&

This year Reddit is contributing more than memes to society, it’s passing out cash. In a blog post today the site announced plans to donate 10 percent of its advertising revenue for the year to non-profits. At the end of the year, the site plans to open up a virtual suggestion box where users

For those who don’t know, Project Tango is a Google-built prototype smartphone jam packed with Kinect-like 3D sensors and components. One of Mountain View’s software partners involved in the project, FlyBy Media, has built what it’s calling the first consum

Technology can solve big problems — the least of which is falling asleep during a movie and losing your place. Thankfully, Netflix staffers have created a solution for this by hacking a Fitbit device. Netflix staffers created a way to pause a video based on a Fitbit device’s sleep tracki

Virgin Media has launched a new broadband service offering a top speed of 152Mbps — over ten times faster than the UK’s average broadband speed of 14.7Mbps. The new 152Mb top speed means that customers can download an entire TV show in one minute, but the ultrafast service really comes i

Do you play a lot of Candy Crush Saga or Clash of Clans but almost never spend any money on in-app purchases? If so then you’re free riding on the backs of a tiny number of users who are spending ungodly sums on virtual goods that enhance their enjoyment of their favorite games. Re/code reports that

Call it the rebuttal to the rebuttal. Carl Icahn on Wednesday fired off his second open letter to eBay shareholders this week, reiterating a call for the ouster of board members Marc Andreessen and Scott Cook and once again demanding the company spin off its PayPal unit. Apparently he was unmoved by

Boeing’s mysterious smartphone, the one that was supposed to have come out by the end of 2012, is now out of the bag. Boeing today posted a full breakdown of Black, a device aimed at defense and security customers. The FCC also published specifics on the hardware and software, including detail

Can you find anything and everything on eBay? Apparently so, even the new all-electric Coda Sedan. Wait a minute here, why would one want to go to eBay to buy a brand new car, when you can easily walk into a dealership and drive away with one? Well, perhaps the fact that Coda Automotive went ba

Firefox OS is still very young and about to endure something of a growth spurt. In the coming months Mozilla’s fledgling mobile platform will see a pretty dramatic reinvention of its UI. A core piece of that reinvention is EverythingMe, a contextual search interface that delivers results from