Share Your Story With Trend Micro For A Shot At $10,000

Every week, Cupertino makes news with technology developments, discoveries and sometimes controversies.

Today, Cupertino Patch brings you Tech News Update, where we relay the past week’s news highlights from our backyard giants, start-ups and small businesses alike.

Trend Micro

Cloud security provider, Trend Micro announced its fourth annual “What's your Story” contest on Tuesday, Feb. 5. This user generated video contest is open to schools and individual film-makers, and there are prizes over $20,000 to be won in the two categories.

With the Internet virtually affecting every part of our lives, the company hopes to provide an interactive platform to Internet users to explore and envisage the “good side of the Internet” through creative storytelling. Submissions and voting open on Tuesday, Feb. 19; deadline to submit is April 16.

In other Trend Micro news, Blackberry has partnered with Trend Micro to expand protection for customers against malware and privacy issues pertaining to third-party apps.

Ensighten

Tag management solution provider, Ensighten released Ensighten Manage 2.0 at Travel Technology Europe 2013. The solution enables non-technical business users to master advanced tag management techniques.

Apple

It is 25 billion iTunes downloads for Apple. That’s yet another milestone for the tech giant. The lucky downloader, Phillip Lüpke of Germany, will receive a €10,000 iTunes® Gift Card. For all trivia lovers, the song Lüpke downloaded was “Monkey Drums” (Goksel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch.

Eddy Cue, senior vice president of Internet Software and Services at Apple, said in a press release that the iTunes Store averages over 15,000 songs downloaded per minute.