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Will Twitter ever be a contender in the war…Editor's Pick For years, Google and Facebook have been waging trench warfare for big-brand ad budgets. Billions of dollars are at up for grabs, and since … |
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PlayStation Vita: THE hardware review
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There is something extravagant about the release of a new game system: the promise of new and previously unheard of software experiences … hardware …
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Taser unveils new wearable police cameras, starting with BART
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For geeks, small head-mounted cameras streaming to iPhones seem like cool, sci-fi inspired gadgetry. For cops, they may be the best way to record …
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Jeremy Lin, women in VC, and the bigotry of…
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Jeremy Lin is the talk of the NBA. Sportswriters everywhere are busy cranking out column inches on what people have called the ultimate Cinderella …
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8 tips for entrepreneurs from a founder-turned-VC
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A friend of mine recently asked me a simple question: “After four years as a VC, knowing what you know now, what basic tips …
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An unexpected dinner with Twisted Metal’s David Jaffe
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It was 10 p.m. on a cold night in San Francisco, Calif., and David Jaffe was hungry. The creator of Twisted Metal for the …
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The DeanBeat: Crowd-funding gives hope to mid-size game developers
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Double Fine Productions turned video game funding practices upside down last week when it raised more than $1.75 million through the crowd-funding site Kickstarter …
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Why iCloud integration on Apple’s Mountain Lion OS fails
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Apple is making a big deal about how its newly-announced Mountain Lion operating system comes with built-in iCloud syncing and storage. But if you …
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New Microsoft trend aggregator reveals we are all horrible people
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Would you trust the masses to tell you what stories are important? A new site from Microsoft called msnNOW shows you what topics are …
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How Hulu could kill off Nielsen ratings and improve television
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Hulu is staying silent about the initial viewership of its first scripted original series Battleground, which premiered its pilot episode on Monday.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note is big, bold, and hopelessly dorky (review)
More than three years after Android launched, all too many Android devices look the same. But you can’t say that about Samsung’s mammoth Galaxy Note.
It’s far from a perfect phone, but it’s among the most interesting I’ve seen recently.…
Luminate gets $10M to add more than just a caption to photos
Luminate has created a way to make the trillions of static images on the web interactive. Thursday, the company announced it has raised $1o.7 million in a third round of funding and was launching an image app store.
“Images are …
Truveris finds big business in battling the rising cost of healthcare, raises $10M series B
The rising cost of healthcare is a national crisis that threatens to to sink both individuals and the federal government into long term debt. New York City based Truveris is trying to bring efficiency and transparency to the fastest growing …
Immersion improves touch feedback in mobile phones so you can feel a Maraca shake
More than 400 million mobile phones give you vibrational feedback thanks to technology from haptics (touch sense) firm Immersion.
Now the San Jose, Calif.-based Immersion is improving the nature of touch feedback in mobile phones with HD Integrator, which allows …
After dismal Q4, T-Mobile reveals a $4B “challenger strategy” to roll out LTE in 2013
T-Mobile took a beating in its fourth quarter earnings yesterday, but there is hope on the horizon in the form of a new “challenger strategy” that involves a massive revamp of its business and a $4 billion investment to arm …
NComputing triples the number of people who can use shared thin-client computers
NComputing is marching forward with its mission of driving computing costs toward zero. Today, the maker of thin-client shared computers is announcing a system that allows three times as many users to work on a single machine at a third …
Cyborg anthropologist’s startup brings people & computers closer together
Longtime cyborg anthropologist Amber Case has spent the better part of a decade researching how people connect to computers; now, she’s launching a startup to make those connections more seamless than ever.
Case saw a huge technology gap (and a …
Qualcomm Atheros expects a smoother rollout for next-generation WiFi
Qualcomm Atheros expects that the next-generation of WiFi wireless networking will roll out in a smoother manner than past industry transitions and with less confusion for consumers.
The new 802.11ac technology, also known as 5G WiFi, promises blazing fast internet …
After 10M downloads in 1 year, Scan gets $1.7M from Menlo and Google to perfect QR codes
Like most people, Garrett Gee thought the experience of creating and using QR codes kind of sucked. “They were not visually appealing or user friendly,” he told VentureBeat. So as a sophmore at Bringham Young in Utah, Gee and few …
Z2Live swallows Big Sandwich Games in acquisition deal (exclusive)
Z2Live, the creator of hit free-to-play social games on mobile devices, is announcing today it has acquired Big Sandwich Games in Vancouver, Canada.
The deal will add nine employees to Z2Live’s work force. Terms were not disclosed. But the deal …
LG kicks off the quad-core smartphone craze with the Optimus 4X HD
LG was the first company to show off a dual-core smartphone last year, and it has once again beaten the rest of the pack with tonight’s announcement of the Optimus 4X HD, the world’s first quad-core phone.
The news heralds …
Attorneys general fear Google’s new privacy policy is an “invasion of privacy”
More than three-dozen state attorneys general expressed fear, in a letter to Google CEO Larry Page, that Google’s soon-to-be enacted, one-size-fits-all privacy policy is an invasion of consumer privacy and trust.
In a choicely worded missive sent to Google’s chief …
OnLive delivers ridiculously fast web browsing on the iPad
OnLive promised that it would one day run Windows desktop computer apps on an Apple iPad, and today it is delivering on that promise. As an added benefit, it is also launching the world’s fastest web browser on the iPad.…
The 7 ‘creep factors’ of online behavioral advertising
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The flood of news stories on the data-collection and online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) practices of search engines, mobile apps, brand advertisers, and social networks is giving many people a very distinct feeling: the creeps. Whether the stories are about concerns …
Apple, Foxconn and the FLA respond to ABC’s “iFactory”
Apple, Foxconn, and the Fair Labor Association have each responded to ABC’s “iFactory: Inside Apple” news special, which aired last night on ABC.
The iFactory Nightline episode told the story of Foxconn, a Chinese factory that produces iPads, iPhones, and …
Bing to embarrass: Feature lets you link Facebook friends to search results
Bing and decide? How drab. Instead, you can now use the number-two search engine to embarrass your friends.
Microsoft’s search engine today introduced a feature called “Linked Pages” that encourages searchers to connect to Facebook and start linking search results …
Post-acquisition, SAP and SuccessFactors outline where marriage is headed
In what might be the most-jargon-filled press release ever, enterprise-software giant SAP announced Wednesday how it will incorporate and improve SuccessFactors’ enterprise cloud services, after completing its purchase of the company last week.
SAP agreed to acquire human capital-management (HCM) …
The real Google TV: Google preps fiber pay-TV service in Kansas City
Google is one step closer to launching a pay-TV service in Kansas City, Missouri — one of its fiber Internet testbeds — that would directly take on cable and satellite companies.
The company filed for a video franchise license in …
New privacy policy agreement forces apps to disclose data use
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has struck a privacy agreement with the top six companies she believes facilitate the creation of the most mobile applications: Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Amazon, Microsoft, and Research in Motion. The agreement states that all …
Hard drive shortage hurts HP’s quarterly revenue; Whitman still optimistic
Hewlett-Packard reported a decline in revenue for the first fiscal quarter of 2012, which analysts expected as the company struggles to turn itself around.
HP’s revenue was $30 billion for the quarter, down from $32.3 million or seven percent compared …
