Apple Buys Topsy
One of the biggish Tech news stories this week is Apple’s purchase of Twitter Analytics company Topsy. Apple has been increasingly active lately with purchases of small companies, indicating that they are much more willing to invest in products and services that were not developed in-house. This also seems to be Apple’s first serious foray into the social media space. (The ill-fated Ping service always seemed like an half-baked afterthought.) It still doesn’t look like Apple is interested in developing its own social networking features, but it’s definitely interested in tapping into the information that can be gleaned from the already existing social media interactions and posts.
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Bojan Tunguz
Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts
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