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Occipital announces investment, new hires

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 11th, 2011)

Occipital, the company behind the popular iPhone and iPad app 360 Panorama, announced on Wednesday that it received US$7 million in venture funding. 360 Panorama lets you take panorama pictures by shooting a series of pictures at one and stitching them on the phone before saving them to your ...

Apple stock helping the Alaska Permanent Fund more than oil

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 3rd, 2011)

The Alaska Permanent Fund sets aside a portion of oil revenue and gives some of that money back to Alaska citizens each year. This pool of money is also used to invest in the stock market, a practice that has proved to be quite lucrative. A recent quarterly report from the company that ...

Warren Buffett hesitant on Apple, tech companies

by Chris Ward (Mar 22nd, 2011)

Multi-billionaire investor Warren Buffett says he still has no plans to invest in technology companies, including Apple, preferring to stick with companies like Coca-Cola because it is "very easy for me to come to a conclusion as to what it will look like economically in five or 10 years, and it's ...

Booyah raises $20m, aims for 6m users

by Mike Schramm (May 18th, 2010)

I've lately been guessing that Booyah might eventually hook up with Ngmoco, since they're both iPhone gaming/app companies with somewhat similar goals that could help each other out. But it looks like Booyah doesn't need any help any more -- it's just raised a whopping $20 million from investors in ...

Content company raises $2 million to develop for iPad

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2010)

Thinking Screen Media is a content platform developer, putting together a content delivery system designed to bring information to "millions of connected screens worldwide." Now, it seems that many of those screens might be iPads. TechCrunch reports that they've raised a whopping $2 million just to ...

In-app purchases not so hot for some developers

by Mike Schramm (Sep 21st, 2009)

PocketGamer.biz has an interesting interview up with Pangea, makers of the iPhone physics puzzle game Enigmo, and they say that so far, their experience with in-app purchases has been pretty lukewarm. The software itself has sold over a million copies, but only a very small number of those customers ...

Apple building server farm, secret lair in North Carolina

by Mike Schramm (May 25th, 2009)

As Mike mentioned in the news roundup yesterday, word is going around that the corporate overlords at Apple are planning to build a massive server farm in the state of North Carolina within the next decade or so. How do we know? Because the company is working on getting a few nice tax breaks to go ...

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