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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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No one can claim to buy your id its as per your choice whether you provide your true ID or not...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Twilio Wants Every App To Have Voice Chat Like Skype
San Francisco startup Twilio just unveiled a service for developers to build point-to-point voice chat into any Web, iOS, or Android application.
It's like every developer in the world now has access to the voice chat functions of Skype or Google Talk.
For the last couple years, Twilio has provided simple tools for developers to add voice calling and SMS to their applications, and charged them a simple and transparent fee for each use.
So far, though, all of those communications have traveled through the regular phone network.
As Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson puts it, Twilio was simply helping developers wire up the phone system in new interesting ways, using it "as a big dumb audio pipe."
The new technology is called Twilio Client, and it enables voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls from within any Web page, iOS app, or Android app.
Calls travel over the Internet, so no connection to the phone system is required, although the apps can still connect to regular phone numbers using Twilio's other services.
Because Twilio doesn't have to interface with the phone system, the service costs developers only 1/4 of a penny per user per minute -- a fraction of the price of Twilio's other services.
Some possible uses:
- An online retailer could set up a "push to talk to customer service" button on its Web site.
- Mobile and Web games could let gamers trash talk while playing -- just like they've been able to do on consoles like the Xbox for years.
- Business apps could layer voice on top of existing features -- for instance, a CRM app could let company reps take calls from customers. All data from incoming calls could be integrated into the CRM system, so reps would know who's calling, the last time they called, and any outstanding issues they might be having.
- Companies could set up internal intercom or conferencing systems -- at a fraction of the cost of a product like Microsoft's Lync.
Twilio uses Amazon Web Services for data storage and compute power -- CEO Lawson used to be a product manager for AWS -- which allows it to scale to massive volumes quickly while charging developers only for the exact capacity that their apps uses. Lawson says they've tested Twilio Client for "billions" of endpoints.
The service sounded clear in a test at Twilio's office, and worked equally well between two Macs as it did between a Mac and iPhone.
Twilio Client is available for Web sites today (a free JavaScript SDK will get developers on board), and is coming for iOS and Android soon.
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HTC Wants To Work Out A Deal With Apple Over Their Patent Fight (AAPL)
HTC's CFO tells Bloomberg he wants "sit down" and figure out a deal with Apple over their patent disputes.
Apple recently won a ruling from the ITC court that said HTC was violating two of Apple's patents. However, prior to that the ITC said Apple was violating two patents from S3 Graphics, a company that HTC later acquired.
Patent fights are widespread in the mobile market right now with Android and Android phone makers getting hit the worst.
HTC already pays Microsoft a reported $5 per Android handset. Would it have to pay that much to Apple, too?
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
China Wants To Buy A Big Piece Of Facebook
China wants to buy a huge chunk of Facebook, a source at a fund that buys stock from former Facebook employees tells us.
This source learned of China's interest when it approached him to see if he could help put together a stake large enough "to matter."
Seperately, a source close to Facebook employees tells us there is a rumor going around the company that Citibank is at this very moment trying to acquire as much as $1.2 billion worth of Facebook stock on behalf of two sovereign wealth funds – China's and another from the Middle East. Another source from an investment bank that is very influential in Silicon Valley says he's also heard a rumor about Citibank's interest on behalf of China.
Representatives from Facebook and Citibank declined to comment on this story. We reached out to China's investment group, but haven't heard back.
Word that China, a state that actively combats privacy online, wants to buy a big stake in Facebook is bound to provoke some concern amongst the 700 million or so people who trust the site with their photos and online activity.
There's little need for such concern. For one, even a billion dollar stake isn't a very big stake in Facebook, these days. The company is expected to IPO at a $100 billion valuation. For another, China would be buying non-voting stock and would have no say in Facebok's operations. And finally, it's not like shareholders in Facebook have some special privilege that allows them to see what users are doing or saying.
Importantly, sovereign wealth funds are pretty distinct from their governments.
Because it's a private company, Facebook will have to approve any sale of its stock to China. We imagine it will. It's been reported that Mark Zuckerberg would like Facebook to move into China. One big reason American firms stumble in China is that the government tends to favor locals when it comes to regulation. One way to make sure that doesn't happen is to allow the governement to own a stake.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Groupon Wants To Go Public NOW
Groupon was about to file to go public this week, sources tell AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, but their bankers held them back because they were going to do it without all of the necessary paperwork, financial modeling, etc.
So, if Swisher's sources are right, Groupon wants to go public as soon as possible, sooner than previously anticipated. Most people were expecting a Groupon IPO in the fall.
An IPO is a complicated process. There's a fair bit of bureaucracy involved, and that's only the beginning -- after that you have to go with your banker to meet a bunch of institutional investors who have to agree to buy your stock so the IPO doesn't flop. But a filing could happen at any time.
That being said, Groupon is almost sure to be one of the hottest IPOs. It could go public at a $25 billion valuation, which would make it a bigger IPO than Google.
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