July 19th, 2012 
Gal Appelbaum Credit Karma, a credit monitoring service are gaining major attention after releasing the Credit Karma Mobile application for iOS yesterday. While the app has been available for less than 24 hours, its already the #1 financial app in the App Store and #22 overall. Why is that? it’s free… and by free I mean free free. 0 [...]
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July 18th, 2012 Gal Appelbaum As a Computer Scientist there are a few different ways to “strike at gold”: Getting hired at a big company with starting salary of 80k and above (which is reasonable), joining/starting a startup and hope it either takes off and becomes a big company or an established company sees the potential in it and purchases [...]
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May 13th, 2012 Gal Appelbaum Many if not all Universities and businesses have networks of computers, computer labs, server rooms and more. The equipment these institutions own, as impressive as it may get, isn’t anything compared to the processing power required by big companies like Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc. These companies spend millions on what are called supercomputers, or computers [...]
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May 13th, 2012 Gal Appelbaum How many times did you have to replace your broken iPhone? Because research shows that on average an iPhone doesn’t last longer than a year without needing replacement, and from personal experience, I’ve seen enough iPhones breaking (except for the one I bought way back in 2008). However if you break your iPhone while it’s [...]
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May 13th, 2012 Gal Appelbaum Google are in the talking process with Meebo according to AllThingsD. The price for the company according to AllThingsDs sources would be $100 millon, which is pretty significant. Meebo have been focusing on many different social tools like their Web based Instant Messaging (IM) platform (which supports a bunch of different IM systems like Windows Live [...]
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