2011

AUSTIN, Texas-Marissa Mayer, VP of consumer products at Google, gave a keynote on Google Maps at South by Southwest (SXSW) on the first day of the Interactive Festival, March 11. …

Today’s highlights ran the gamut from payment apps to digital wallets, location-based services, and social gaming, to mobile apps for social good.

Mobile electronics accessory and design firm AViiQ has started a solidarity campaign for Japan with donations to the American Red Cross for every user that likes its Facebook page.

“This is a mass market thing – if you have 60 million people playing the game, it’s not just geeks anymore,” said Brian Reynolds, founder of Zynga in a keynote at SXSW today. The gaming company responsible for Facebook games like Farmville and Mafia Wars has turned playing video games into a social phenomena – not a private pastime but rather, a hobby to be shared and celebrated.

America’s students are bored, unengaged and dropping out at alarming rates – but technology may be able to save the day. At least according to the panelists on a Samsung sponsored SXSW panel on Friday entitled: Asleep in the Classroom: A Wake Up Call from Tomorrow.

PC World | March 11, 2011 | Michael Kan Opera Software has announced a deal to embed its Internet browser on mobile phones sold in China, a move that is meant …

Reuters | March 10, 2011 | Devidutta Tripathy * Notices sent to Etisalat DB for two zones and Idea for one (Adds Etisalat statement) NEW DELHI, March 10 (Reuters) – India’s …

Sydney Morning Herald | March 10, 2011 Sales of smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone4 are set to top 100 million units for the first time this year in the Asia …

The Straits Times | March 11, 2011 | Chua Hian Hou BY JULY, people with smartphones and other mobile devices can get online and surf the Internet at a much faster …

With John Stanton at the helm, will a possible business deal between Clearwire Corp. (CLWR),  T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) come to fruition? It’s a question …

Remember SXSW 2010, when check-in services such as FourSquare, Gowalla and BrightKite were hitting the big time? Austin was awash with people walking into closed doors as they stared intensely at their handsets, making sure they registered that all-important Starbucks check-in.

Rovio is certainly feeling the luck of the Irish this week as the Angry Birds maker picked up a cool $42 million in new venture funding on the same week it released 15 new levels in honor of Saint Patrick’s day.

AUSTIN, Texas-Appconomy, a local startup app developer, unveiled the company’s first app, barely preceding the start of South by Southwest (SXSW) on March 11. The app is named “Grouped{in}” and …

Tech Digest | March 10, 2011 | ShinyJess Together Intel the chipmaker and Lenovo the PC maker will deploy 158,000 laptops to students in Argentina. What started out as a reference design for affordable laptops …

Business News Americas | March 10, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás The possible sale of Colombia telecoms operatorETB is very unlikely to happen this year, Yankee Group principal analyst for Latin …