It’s not at all uncommon that when something is successful, other companies attempt to mirror that success by following some of the same methods. From the first cars to the recent deluge of daily deals sites, the behavior is far from surprising. It stands to reason then that we’d start seeing a number of startup incubators and accelerators popping up across the world, given the success of some of the bigger names within this vein....

Boxee, has announced it’s planning on releasing its own iPad app to offer streaming between devices running its software. Boxee enables users to watch movies and tv shows from the internet on TV through their Boxee set top box. And, it also offers a cool UI to consume media on Mac/PC/Linux. We firstheardthat Boxee would be integrating Apple’s Airplay technology. However, Boxee’s VP of Marketing Andrew Kippen, speaking toPocket Lint, has debunked that idea saying “kinda like AirPlay, but not quite”....

An Ohio teenagerhas dieddays after being hospitalised for a gunshot wound to the head in a dispute with his older brother in an Ohio Apple Store. Columbus police issued a release naming the boy as Andrake Kelley, a 15 year-old boy that received a single gunshot wound to the head on Saturday night at Easton Town Center mall. Witnesses had saidthere was a fight between a group of young people at theApple Storeand a teenager was shot when the fight moved outside the store....

Oil giants like BP and Shell have been reluctant to welcome the transition to electric cars, for fear of losing money and market share. But now things seem to be changing and it looks like investing inEVinfrastructure could bring more money than selling fuel. BP’s head of customers and products Emma Delaney toldReutersthat while the company’s charging division isn’t expected to be profitable before 2025, on a margin level (money in, money out) it’s nearing the levels of gas filling....

The very separate properties of Google will all soon be connected. As Google VP of Product Bradley Horowitz states in hisWiredinterview, “Google+ is Google itself”. While previous Google products may have once stood on their own, Horowitz notes that this will not remain the case as Google+ continues to grow. Previously,Google tied YouTube into Google+ via Hangouts during the G+ beta phase. We predicted that this would only be the first in Google’s step tying in each of its properties into Google+....