Disney has launched a digital music store. The company is also selling Disney music gift cards, for sale at Walmart and grocery retailers everywhere. The online music store offers a 30-second music preview, and carries music from the Disney stable.…
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Lego showed off the world’s largest Lego model, a 1:1 replica of the Lego Star Wars X-Wing starfighter, in New York’s Times Square. The replica took 32 master builders, five million Lego bricks and over 17,000 hours to complete. It weighs nearly 20,865…
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Samsung has sold over 10 million Galaxy S4 smartphones in less than a month after its commercial debut, says the company. Launched globally on April 27 in 60 countries, the phone is estimated to be selling at a rate of…
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OtterBox has acquired LifeProof. The financial details and terms of the agreement are confidential. Over the next month, it will begin incorporating the LifeProof brand into the OtterBox family, says OtterBox. Brian Thomas (CEO, OtterBox): Our goal in this acquisition…
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A A panel of judges from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and partner organizations has selected five ‘best in class’ solutions as winners of the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge. The challenge, in which participants developed software, hardware, data…
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Microsoft unveiled the latest videogame console from the Xbox stable, the Xbox One, on Tuesday. Xbox One comes with advanced motion and voice-control systems, along with new television functions, packed in an eight-core, x86 processor device with more than 5 billion transistors.…
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Pebble, the smartwatch that can connect to iPhone and Android smartphones, has received $15 million in Series A funding from Charles River Ventures. The funding will be used to grow the software engineering team, expand Pebble’s open development platform and…
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Hearst has launched magazine content exclusively for Google Glass. The company launched Elle Glassware at the just-concluded Google I/O. Teams from Hearst, ELLE and Google worked together on the launch. Hearst is the first magazine media company to develop and launch Glassware (yes, thats…
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Sega has signed an exclusive partnership with Nintendo for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The company will release the next three games starring the hedgehog on Nintendo platforms exclusively. John Cheng, President & COO (SEGA, America): Sonic the Hedgehog has proven incredibly…
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Users have downloaded over 50 billion apps from the App Store, says Apple. Compared to that number, the population of the world is a mere 7.08 billion. People are downloading more than 800 apps per second at a rate of over…
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