First, it was the lifestyle apps. Then, it was the media apps. Now, video apps are reporting huge growth numbers from launching Timeline-friendly features for Facebook.
Today, Facebook issued some interesting stats from a slew of video companies, including heavy …
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The original dot-com bubble was an empty canvas that quickly filled up with overnight, more-talk-than-substance sensations.
Corporate websites littered with hijacked stock photography made you seem big even though you were small. Programming teams were precariously assembled. Get them in …
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Arizona is considering a new law that would criminalize Internet trolling, and I fully support the idea.
First, let’s take a look at the hard news. Arizona House Bill 2549, which has already passed both the Arizona House of Representatives …
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A well-equipped mobile worker is no longer a “nice to have” or a luxury. It’s a business necessity.
In an economic climate where success or failure is based on the productivity and efficiency of employees, BYOD (that stands for “bring …
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In a classic episode of The Simpsons, Homer changes his name to “Max Power” and declares to Bart and Lisa, “Kids, there’s three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way!” Bart …
Linux is everywhere. You might not see it, and you probably don’t know it yet, but it’s powering the web services you use, the phone in your hand, and the ATM at your bank.
The following video, just released by …
Today, Facebook has open-sourced Ringmark, its new test suite for mobile device manufacturers.
Ringmark, which was announced just a few weeks ago at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is designed to run “tests of core functionality that web developers need …
Terrafugia, a Massachusetts company that’s making our dreams of flying cars a reality, has already taken 100 pre-orders for its second-generation flagship model The Transition.
We’ll take two.
The cars successfully completed their first test flights March 23, and …
Expedia and TripAdvisor have just filed complaints about Google’s travel search features as part of a larger antitrust probe the search giant is facing in the European Union.
Altogether the European Commission has received 13 formal complaints, including the new …
Pinterest has finally confirmed co-founder Paul Sciarra (pictured, left) has left the company.
He’ll be serving as entrepreneur-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the more important venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.
“Of course, I’ll continue to be there for …
Earlybird Venture Capital, a Berlin-based VC firm, has just raised $100 million for its fourth fund. That’s half the amount the firm hopes to raise, and it brings all Earlybird fundraising to date to $700 million.
The firm is focusing …
When you think about PDFs — those maddening, borderline-useless, wish-they-were-obsolete files only a print designer could love — you probably think about Adobe. But at least one startup wants you to think of Nitro instead.
Nitro is an Australian-founded, San …
After months of tentative talks and rejected offers, Oracle and Google are finally heading to court in a lawsuit that puts the fate of the Android operating system in the balance.
In a memo penned today (which we’ve embedded below), …
Women might be outnumbered in tech, but there’s one area where we outnumber the dudes: virtual freelancing.
Yes, according to one study, women make up 55 percent of the online marketplace of freelancers. Data from talent firm Zinnov show the …
If you live in a major metro, you might be more inclined to take surface streets over highways during rush hour. Google is now making that decision — and the decision about which roads are actually fastest — a lot …
The U.S. Navy has just taken the wraps off a sexy new robotics facility. The bots created and refined there will be automated wonders, some of them amphibious, some able to fight fires or fly, and ever so much more.…
Today, Microsoft is announcing eleven finalists in the ultimate Kinect hacking showdown: a spot in a TechStars-backed accelerator just for Kinect-based ideas.
Kinect hacks have been something we’ve been keeping an eye on for a while, and it turns out …
Codecademy, the hit website for teaching yourself how to code, just opened up new courses for HTML and CSS.
If you want to learn HTML, you can start with the Codecademy HTML 101 courses right now. The site is interactive …
Developers, GitHub just gave your code repositories a fresh new coat of sexy.
Today, the startup rolled out the GitHub Page Generator, which will let you select a theme and instantly publish a page for any GitHub project. This makes …
Internet Explorer has been sliding downhill in market share for the past few years, but recently mined stats show something the critics never expected to see: A small but significant uptick in IE’s numbers since the beginning of 2012.
Data …
