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How much are your family jewels worth? One Hong Kong businessman had a $14.5 million 26-carat black diamond as part of his family heirlooms. What does one do with such an expensive and rare stone? Put it up for auction and get the cash? Donate it to a museum to show off to the world?...

Apple wants to keep its dominant position in the digital download business, and a Pandora-like music streaming service – let's say: iRadio, as rumoured – could help the company achieve that, because the majority of consumers already buy music using iTunes. (more…)

For those still playing Zynga's Draw Something, you may be glad to know the sequel, Draw Something 2 has exclusively launched in the Canadian App Store, just the second country in the world after the Sweden received the game last month, notes App Advice. The new version has a redesign and now allows you to...

Microsoft's vice president of the Windows Phone division Terry Myerson called out the competition at a conference hosted by AllThingsD, calling Apple's iOS 'boring', reports Bloomberg. (more…)

Facebook has updated its iOS app to 6.0 and with it comes a cleaner look for the News Feeds, a tweaked icon, plus new ways to chat anywhere in the app with 'chat heads'. Also new is the ability to send stickers within chats. Full change log below: What's New in Version 6.0 Brand new...

Mailbox has announced its reservation system on their popular Gmail iOS email app has been confidently removed, thanks in large part to "10 weeks of around-the-clock hard work" by their engineering team, which has now enabled servers to handle over 100 million messages per day. Just last month the team announced it had filled 1 million reservations...

We all know popular cross-platform messaging app WhatsApp is big, right? Well think again because the company is larger than you could ever imagine. Speaking onstage at D: Dive Into Mobile, AllThingsD reports WhatApp CEO Jan Koum revealed his company has exceeded the user base of Twitter, which has roughly 200 million monthly active users....

According to a new report by security software firm Symantec, Google’s Android platform remains the main target for mobile malware writers, despite iOS technically having more vulnerabilities (via Tech Crunch). The report says that the difference in threat level between the two mobile operating systems is the two completely different mobile ecosystem approaches i.e "Apple’s walled garden vs Android’s...

Looks like we have yet another sale on the iPhone 5 on three year terms from our wireless carriers. TELUS, Rogers, Fido, Bell and Virgin Mobile have all discounted the 32GB and 64GB iPhone 5 models again on three year terms. The prices are as follows: 32GB iPhone 5: $230 (normally $280; $50 off) 64GB...

Yesterday, we reported that Facebook is currently in talks with Apple to bring ‘Facebook Home’ to the iPhone and today, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has spoken to the Wall Street Journal in London, revealing that the company will indeed bring some of the Facebook Home features to iOS. Those who aren't aware, Facebook Home is a newly released...

CEO of Waze Noam Bardin recently took the stage at D:Dive Into Mobile conference, where he stated that the next five years will be about 'fighting for time with users, pointing to Facebook Home as the "de facto example of that" (via Engadget). He also confessed that he sees Waze as Google's "only real competition" in major markets. Company CEO added...

The Pulitzer Prize is a prestigious U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism. With the New York Times recently winning another Pulitzer, CNN Money reporter Philip Elmer-DeWitt highlights how the publication won the journalism's top prize for 'picking on Apple'. The reporter had predicted last year that the paper was going for a Pulitzer when it sent a team...