Dispelling myths: Personalized learning tools will not replace teachers
Guest Post Dispelling the three most common myths about personalized learning.
5 big reasons Rosetta Stone’s buy-out of LiveMocha was a mistake
Guest Post Hours after April Fool’s day, LiveMocha CEO Michael Schutzler announced that his company was being acquired by the behemoth he had battled for five years: Rosetta Stone. There are 5 reasons why you should be skeptical this acquisition will save Rosetta Stone, which has been running in the red for the last few years.
Battle of the mobile sexes: Women install 40% more apps, spend 87% more than men
April 26, 2013 12:42 PM
John Koetsier
Women install 40 percent more apps than men, buy 17 percent more paid apps, and pay an astonishing 87 percent more for those apps. In other words, if you want to make money selling apps, you better appeal to women.
Odd bug affecting Apple’s iMessage, deleting last word of users’
April 26, 2013 12:02 PM
John Koetsier
Apple's messaging services deletes the last word of a few key phrases. One is "The best prize is a surprise," and another is "I could be the next Obama." The only catch?
TikTakTo debuts its all-in-one approach to e-commerce
April 26, 2013 11:48 AM
Rebecca Grant
TikTakTo combines flash sales, product search, social features and daily deals to create "the ultimate online shopping experience."
Samsung’s app store is the latest entity affected by the sanctions against Iran
April 26, 2013 11:33 AM
Ricardo Bilton
Sanctions in Iran are making it tough for tech companies -- including Samsung -- to do business there.
These are the top 5 BYOD issues facing the healthcare industry
Guest Post Many hospital IT organizations across the globe are beginning to deploy bring-your-own-device strategies. But they must be prepared to face these five major issues head on.
‘We’re no rock stars’: Meet Silicon Valley’s tech talent agents (interview)
April 26, 2013 11:19 AM
Christina Farr
A San Francisco-based agency called 10x Management is among the first to bring a Hollywood agency model to the tech industry.
Rural Vermont phone company offering Google Fiber-like Internet speeds for $35/mo.
April 26, 2013 11:06 AM
Tom Cheredar
Google sure isn't wasting any time when it comes to an expansion of its ultra fast Internet Service Google Fiber, but then again neither are other ISPs -- even those in rural Vermont.
Apple’s ‘black hole’ ecosystem will drive market share past Android, Yankee Group says
April 26, 2013 9:39 AM
John Koetsier
In a global smartphone market that Android has been expanding at a breakneck pace, a bright spot for Apple has been increasing market share in the lucrative U.S. domestic market. A new report from the Yankee Group says that's going to continue, and that Apple is winning the slow way, via customer loyalty.
Yes, Mr. Schmidt, talking to Google Glass is, actually, ‘the weirdest thing’
April 26, 2013 9:12 AM
John Koetsier
Of course, he is 57 years old, was born in the 1950s, and was the CEO of a boring enterprise software company, Novell, before joining the much more au courant Google. But still, he's right.
AT&T’s home automation service Digital Life comes to 15 cities
April 26, 2013 8:04 AM
Tom Cheredar
Now you can finally transform your place in the home of tomorrow.
Dysonics launches Kickstarter to fund its first wireless motion sensor for headphones
April 26, 2013 8:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
Rondo Motion changes your audio experience, allowing you to sense the direction that sounds are coming from.
The DeanBeat: King overtakes Zynga as the largest social gaming company
April 26, 2013 8:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
After 10 years, King has become the biggest in terms of daily active users for social games.
Why VCs can’t afford to ignore EdTech any longer
Guest Post The education space is massive, very broken, barely touched by technology and has been largely underserved by entrepreneurs and investors. The opportunity for disruption, significant value creation and outsized returns is huge.
10 startups debut at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator’s Demo Day
April 26, 2013 6:26 AM
Devindra Hardawar
New York City's Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is graduating 10 startups from its Winter 2013 class this morning, and we're live at the scene for their demo day presentations.
How to avoid buying 13 laptops in 15 minutes, then shipping them to a stranger in Sacramento
April 26, 2013 6:09 AM
John Koetsier
Last week I bought 13 laptops from WalMart.com. There were only two problems: I didn't buy them, and they weren't being shipped to my house. I'd been hacked.
Motion comics startup Narr8 to begin accepting submissions from indie creators
April 26, 2013 6:00 AM
Tom Cheredar
Along with the growing movement of people who like to read comics on tablets, there is an equally enthusiastic group that actually wants to make their own digital comics.
Samsung posts massive $7.9B profit for Q1, but growth is slowing
April 26, 2013 5:59 AM
Sean Ludwig
Samsung's latest quarterly results show the company in prime shape with a stunning $7.9 billion operating profit and $47.5 billion in revenues. But like Apple, growth is starting to look like an issue.
Yahoo chairman Fred Amoroso’s resignation will give Marissa Mayer more room to do her thing
April 26, 2013 4:44 AM
Sean Ludwig
Yahoo chairman Fred Amoroso has resigned from his post and will step down from the board in June, a move that should give CEO Marissa Mayer more power and a board she can trust.
