Summify is a beloved little news-curation platform that works out (based on your reading habits and those of your friends) what news is most relevant to you. Yesterday the Vancouver-based start-up announced that it had been snapped up by Twitter and will commence shutting down in the next week. Fortunately, the team is relocating down to the micro-blogging site’s San Francisco base, ostensibly to bake the service into forthcoming variations of the site — which might be enough to stop us complaining about losing our retweets panel.
See the article here:
Twitter buys Summify, helps you automatically turn off the noise

Shazam today released its first fully new app since the launch of the familiar self-titled music tagging app. The new, simply-named Shazam Player offers up streaming lyrics, YouTube videos, concert dates and lets you make playlists on the go
Here at Mercedes-Benz’s CES keynote (it’s first), the creator of the automobile just unveiled the successor to its telematics system: mbrace2.
With CES 2012 drawing ever closer to us all, there are still a lot of mysteries yet to be unraveled. But there’s one thing you can count on: you’ll be able to keep track of all the action on Twitter as it happens . The question is, however, who can you follow to get the latest CES scoop





