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Galaxy S II details may be coming tomorrow, but that's not the only announcement the company is making this week. In addition to the long-awaited smartphone, Samsung is prepping a new cross-platform mobile chat service called ChatON. According to TechCrunch, the service is expected to launch in...

Skype CEO Tony Bates announced via the company's blog yesterday that Skype has acquired GroupMe, a popular service that allows group messaging across several mobile platforms. Bates says that "this acquisition is another step towards" Skype's "vision to provide a global multi-modal and multi-...

Will we even remember what FaceTime was five years from now? Probably. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is a stickler for standing by its own technologies, so it seems unlikely that FaceTime will be abandoned. But while it may have seemed like a necessary evolution in videoconferencing when it first debuted,...

With nearly $80 billion in cash, the Mac maker has plenty of spending money. But how should it be used? Around the offices at Benzinga, some have said (perhaps jokingly) that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) should attempt to cure cancer to keep Steve Jobs alive. Obviously that's not going to happen. I don't...

Watch out, Steve Jobs: the Windows maker is coming back with a vengeance. If the hype surrounding Windows 8 isn't enough to satisfy your Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) dreams, perhaps this little tidbit from TechCrunch and Neowin will whet your appetite. Microsoft is planning to open 75 stores in the...

It appears the nerds are marching to war. In a move that is surely a shot across the bow of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Facebook announced Wednesday they are integrating Skype into their platform, allowing Facebook users the opportunity to video chat with their friends. This comes a little more than a...

In the '80s, Nytol was known as the medication that could “help you get your Z's.” This afternoon, Mark Zuckerberg continued Nytol's work, single-handedly putting viewers to sleep while earning dozens of user comments filled with nothing more than Z's. While today was supposed to introduce...

There has been a ton of hype for what has been deemed an “awesome” new feature coming to Facebook this week. Whatever that feature is, the world won't have to wait much longer: the social networking giant is scheduled to make an announcement at 1:00 p.m. EDT today. The latest rumor suggests that...

Of course they did. They'll deny it, because they're a corporation and they have secrets to protect, profits to make, and apparently, millions of Americans to spy on. They might be able to hire wonderful PR firms and amazing lawyers, but they cannot hide from the truth. And the truth is this: In...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) received some welcome news Friday, as it was announced that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has cleared its purchase of internet communication service Skype. Microsoft made a $8.5 billion bid for Skype in May, one of its biggest acquisitions ever. The move was then...

Skype (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced yesterday that it will allow users to offer its service over Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMSCA) subscriber's HDTV's. Comcast customers can use the service through a kit that includes an adaptor box, video camera and special remote control that will also let Comcast customers...

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) most popular products could soon be powered and/or enhanced by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) software and technology. This unlikely development stems from a dispute between Apple and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in which the Finnish mobile phone maker accused its leading competitor of...

A Russian hacker has reverse-engineered part of Skype's code and posted the results on the internet. His aim: to make Skype open source. Presumably, he forgot that Skype isn't his to make anything and, understandably, Skype are more than a little mad. Efim Bushmanov describes himself as a “...

Will the day ever come when we can get up in the morning without fearing that Skype will be down? The newly acquired Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) entity has been imperiled since the day it was launched, fading in and out of service faster than America Online (NYSE: AOL). (Alright, NOTHING is as bad...

According to an announcement posted to the Airbnb blog, Ashton Kutcher, star of television programs That ‘70s Show and Punk'd and films such as Dude Where's My Car?, has made a "significant investment" in Airbnb.com. He also will join the team of this San Francisco-based vacation rental startup as...