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What you need to know - Wednesday 1/19/11

Apple's record $26.7 billion revenue; Android users engage more; Buy Starbucks coffee with your cell

Technology trends and news by Ronny Kerr
January 19, 2011 | Comments
Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/1610

Apple announced its record-breaking financial results for the first quarter of 2011 on Tuesday, with revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion. 

 

A new report from mobile advertising network Mojiva finds that Android users were more engaged with their devices than iOS users for the first time last month. 

 

 

Customer service company RightNow has acquired Q-go, a natural language search provider, for $34 million in cash.

 

 

Document sharing site Scribd has raised a $13 million Series C round led by MLC Investments and SVB Capital, with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Charles River Ventures, and Kinsey Hills Group.

Starbucks says it will now let shoppers buy coffee at around 8,000 stores nationwide with a BlackBerry, iPhone or iPod Touch.

 

Twitter it is now available in Korean, its seventh language.

 

Video conferencing startup Vidyo has raised $11.5 in new funding, according to an SEC filing

 

Vook, a mixed media reading platform (vook= book+video), closed a $5.25 million Series A round led by VantagePoint Venture Partners and Floodgate.

 

 

Social gaming company Zynga just launched in beta a site called RewardVille, where users who earn "zCoins" in Zynga games can cash in for "sweet game items."

 

In Today's Entrepreneur, VatorNews profiles Matt Malden, the founder of Yield Software. Malden is a self-described "first time entrepreneur."


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