• Microsoft Acquires Nokia Devices and Services Business For ~$7.1B

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    Microsoft will acquire Nokia’s Devices and Services business for 5.44 billion Euros.

    Microsoft Acquires Nokia Devices and Services Business

    Microsoft has just announced that they are acquiring
    Nokia‘s Devices and Services divisions in a move that will see Microsoft in control of Nokia’s smart phone properties. This is not a complete takeover, as Nokia will still be its own entity with its own patent portfolio. However, Microsoft will be granted a “10-year license” to Nokia’s patents.

    Microsoft will pay $3.79 billion euros on the Devices and Services business and $1.65 to license patents. 32,000 staff will move from Nokia to Microsoft, with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop moving to Microsoft as executive VP of Devices and Services.

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  • Watch Samsung Galaxy S4 Unpacked 2013 Full Keynote

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    Samsung Galaxy S4

    Samsung Galaxy S4

    Samsung has announced the latest entry in its Galaxy flagship smartphones, Galaxy S4. Revealed at Unpacked event in New York City, the Galaxy S4 sports a massive 5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display with a pixel density of 441ppi (Galaxy S III has 306ppi).

    Galaxy S4 will support offline Group Play, has a 13 megapixel front camera and 2 megapixel rear, and is equipped with an infrared LED. It contains 2GB of DDR3 RAM. A slimmer yet stronger build than its predecessors.

    New features including, a nine language translator, a bunch of video and photo features. Watch the full unpacked event right below:

  • LinkedIn Launches Updated iPhone & Android Apps, New HTML 5 Mobile Site

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    LinkedIn has announced a new HTML 5 optimized page for mobile browsers and updated iPhone and Android apps with 2-10X speed increases.

    For the first time, we’ll be providing that experience not only in our iPhone and Android applications, but also in a brand new HTML5 experience for use in any modern mobile web browser.

    • Faster

    The new mobile apps are between two and ten times faster across all features, ranging from search to reading update stream.

    • Simpler

    The App completely re-organized around 4 key areas:

    • Updates: View updates from your network and top news from LinkedIn Today
    • Inbox: You can view your invitations and messages in one place
    • You: Access your profile, connections, share updates, and even more in the future
    • Groups & More: Browse and interact with your groups, as well as build your network through our People You May Know feature

    This not only makes it easier for members to accomplish tasks easily, but also makes it more intuitive to find what they are looking for when they download the app for the first time.

    • Better

    The other big change that we’ve implemented based on user feedback is that the mobile app experience now starts with the Update stream, one of the most frequently used areas of the current mobile app. We want to help our members be great at what they do and one way to do that is to help them stay up-to-date on news and information from their network, company, and industry that they can glean from their updates stream.

  • Mobile Gaming is Dominating the Gaming Industry

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    We know that mobile devices such as iPad have become prominent devices for entertainment and gaming and are actually dominating the Game industry. John Riccitiello, the Electronic Arts CEO told IndustryGamers yesterday and this what he had to say about the matter:

    Consoles used to be 80% of the industry as recently as 2000. Consoles today are 40% of the game industry, so what do we really have? I think that the pattern against which Nintendo is no longer resonating is over anyway. We have a new hardware platform and we’re putting out software every 90 days. Our fastest growing platform is the iPad right now and that didn’t exist 18 months ago.

    The industry is undergoing a titanic shift, factors like the ease of publishing to the App Store, the extremely low cost to become a developer, the growth of free games and the rise of the female gamer (53% of mobile gamers are female) are rewriting the rules and making millionaires overnight.

    Here is an in depth look infographic at the numbers and stats behind the game industry. pause your game for few minutes to take a look.

    [via geekaphone]