By Jane Gracielo, on May 10th, 2013% 
The popular social networking site, Facebook, introduced their Home app a month ago. Though it was downloaded by many since it launched, it did not live up in its hype.
The Facebook Home was rated with only two stars in the Google Play store and the Home-preloaded smartphone HTC First exclusively available through AT&T was slashed off to 99 cents from $99. This is something to worry about for a multi-million dollar company.
In a meeting in their Menlo Park, California-headquarters, Facebook showed some enhancements of the Home to the journalists. These enhancements were . . . → Read More: Facebook Enhances Home Due to Complains and Low Rating
By Jane Gracielo, on April 23rd, 2013%
It would appear that Facebook Home has just surpassed 500k downloads on Google Play since launching on the platform five days ago on April 16. The app’s Google Play listing notes the milestone, and Ben Evans confirmed on Twitter.
Facebook seem to be successful with its Facebook Home software for android platforms. Since it’s launch 5 days ago, April 16, it surpassed the 500k-download milestone on the Google Play listing.
Just to be clear, Facebook Home is not an app but a UI (user interface) software. Its aim is to be at the center . . . → Read More: Facebook Home Hits 500,000 Downloads in Just 5 Days
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on March 26th, 2013% 
A 17-year old app prodigy just made himself a millionaire by selling his news-reading application, Summly, to Yahoo for $30 million.
Nick D’Aloisio, currently one of the youngest millionaires, self-studied making softwares since he was 12 in his bedroom in London, built an iPhone app which summarizes news stories that fits the small screen for free when he was just 15. And now that he is 17, he sold his app to one of the biggest internet companies making himself the youngest self-made entrepreneur.
With his self built app, he received supports from large . . . → Read More: 17-year-old Student Sells App to Yahoo for $30 Million
By Imee Celine Lenoir, on March 19th, 2013% 
Electronic Arts proudly announced that Maxis’ SimCity 5 has sold more than 1.1 million copies in just a short period of time since it released. Despite of the issues regarding its need to be constantly online, and massive requests and criticism for having an offline version of the game, the sales were good and positive.
EA also said that more than half the sold copies of the game were through online and downloaded. This is showing a good sign that players has no problem playing it even if it needs to be always online.
According to Peter Moore, Chief Operating . . . → Read More: SimCity 5 Hits 1.1 Million Sold Copies
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on March 16th, 2013% 
Toyota announced a huge recall of 310,000 units of their FJ Cruiser SUVs. The recall was due to a seat belt problem. The safety belt could potentially fail depends on how the passenger and the driver positions themselves in the vehicle seats. This could be dangerous especially in sudden brakes or light bumps. Majority of the SUVs recalled are from the United States, SUVs sold in other countries are included in this massive recall.
The car maker made the announcement in a press release, citing a problem about the passenger and the driver seat belts which . . . → Read More: Toyota FJ Cruisers Recalled due to Seat Belt Problems
By Jharma Mulchandani, on March 14th, 2013% 
Following the unveiled Blackberry Z10, carrier rivals Verizon and AT&T announced that the preorders of the new Blackberry units has began. On the other hand, Blackberry announced that they received a 1-million-unit preorder of the Z10.
The phone maker just revealed that an established partner just ordered 1 million units of the Blackberry 10 phones. In a phone call interview with CNET, the spokeswoman refused to give a name of the said “established partner”. This transaction is said to be the largest single purchase in Blackberry’s history.
The announcements from the phone maker came in just when the . . . → Read More: Blackberry Z10 Preorder Commences; Company Receives 1 Million Unit Order
By Antonnete Teresita, on January 22nd, 2013% 
In 2012, Apple Inc.’s sales results were reported to be low. However, iPhone 5 was one of the best selling gadgets of last year and it was the iPad that did not have the same sales level due to supply issues.
An analyst from JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mark Moskowitz and his team has found out that the near-term constraints of Apple’s supplies in November has impacted and affected the sales of iPad.
Originally, Moskowitz has estimated that Apple Inc. would sell iPad units at 20.1 million during the month of December. But now, the current prediction is at 18.4 . . . → Read More: iPhone 5 sales are strong, but iPad sales could frustrate investors
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