ICYMI: Corey Herscu talks tech gifts for the Season on Global TV this morning

Corey is back on Global talking Canadian made Etsy tech accessory gifts and even sponsoring a giveaway for an iPad Air as well as a one of a kind iPhone 5 case. Check out the video from this morning's broadcast.

Yahoo! purchases SkyPhrase for natural language recognition capabilities

Yahoo! has bought startup SkyPhrase, a natural language processing company that was working on methods to handle inquiries similar to Siri and Wolfram Alpha’s capabilities. It looks like the tech company wants to improve its web search capabilities and help personalize search results a bit more.

Star Wars opens official Instagram account

Who wants to see a selfie of Darth Vader? If you check out the recently opened Instagram account of Star Wars franchise, you’ll get to see that and possibly a lot of teasers for the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII. Perhaps, this is Disney’s way of introducing much beloved franchise to a new generation. Let’s hope they keep the updates going.

Tumblr introduces sponsored trending blogs for mobile

Tumblr has brought sponsored trending blogs to its Android and iOS apps to help with monetization efforts of the company. The blogs can be seen when you are in the “Explore” tab of the app, which now has sponsored blogs from Delta, Calvin Klein, Fox, and Son Pictures. Companies will later be allowed to pay to have their blogs appear among trending results.

You’ll identify sponsored blogs when you see a dollar-sign symbol right next to the “Follow” button.  The full rollout of this ad unit will start in January 2014.

Source: The Verge