Exclusive Page > GigaOM

If Facebook’s future is mobile, then it may not be enough for it to merely secure a piece of the mobile ad market. It will need to have an outsized impact on the industry...

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/T8Av_yE2Q2M/

Everyone may not get excited about open APIs or 3-D printing (what is wrong with y’all?) but everyone loves food. Here are four novel ways the tech world interacts with food (or even food prep). So grab a snack and read on...

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/d3hRs99uEVo/

When will the floodgates open? It feels like an eternity that the casino industry and makers of games like Zynga Poker have been waiting for states to flip a legal switch that will let them turn virtual gaming into real gambling...

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/Rpa21rc0QuQ/

New research about how news is verified through Twitter and a crowdsourced debunking of some fake Wikipedia entries reinforce the point that social networks and online communities can be powerful tools for the real-time verification of events, something that used to take place behind closed doors...

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/GOZLFqOXRgs/

Netflix just launched a new video player for web-based viewing, and it's hot: Viewers can preview all other episodes while watching an episode of a TV show, the player allows seamless size changes and the overall design is much slicker than before...

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/oG8sTbV5rZk/

With a reported 11 teens killed while texting and driving per day, parents are turning towards apps to limit their kids phone use behind the wheel. SecruaFone offers one for iPhone and Android handsets that diables some features when in motion, but it doesn't stop there...

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/yKgQI02S6AI/

Google just launched an iOS app for its other social network: iPhone users can now access the social activity service Schemer with an app that allows them to find things to do and share those plans with their friends. The app closely mimics its Android cousin...

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/xNRpdb8QKZY/

ISwifter is showing how it can create a full-fledged Facebook app that also includes Flash gaming. TheWorx iPad app, a Facebook application that is set to go live next month, will provide users with access to status updates, their news feed and photos and also gaming via an App Hub. ..

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/toEHRw8t7eg/

Yale researchers Daniel Abadi and Alexander Thomson think they have developed the cure for Oracle and IBM dominance in the world of database performance, and it isn't even technically a database. The two have created a system they think can level the playing field...

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/QjAAa7lazqk/

New York-based Internet company Betaworks is announcing today that, along with Glam CFO Bruce Jaffe, it is making a “significant” investment in Stockholm-based, visual RSS reader Bloglovin...

Details: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/QQVc3svCrdQ/