Guest Post
Some things in life we can’t choose: birth order, the weather, embarrassing family members, and for most of us, our bosses.
CEOs are the exception – they can choose the funding partners that become their board members, who are in …
Mark Zuckerberg giveth and he taketh away. Facebook users are reporting today that they can no longer see the real-time “Ticker” that describes their friends’ activities on the right side of the Facebook home page.
TechCrunch reported that the disappearance …
Raised on the Internet and versed in social media, today’s youngsters view the world in a different light than generations past. Here to serve and inspire these influential minds is #waywire, a New York-based startup that’s landed $1.75 million in …
Tim Bray, the Googler most famous for his prior role in editing the XML language, has set his eyes on a new challenge: eradicating usernames and passwords, at least as we know them today, from the Internet.
Bray, who landed …
Need some Tumblr love? Got $5? You’re good to go.
Tumblr introduced a new feature Thursday called Pinned Posts that gives members the option to pin one of their status updates — be it a text, photo, quote, link, chat, …
GameStop is catering to "hybrid gamers" as it expands its offering of Android tablets with Google's Nexus 7.
Private social network Path and lifestyle brand Nike have teamed up to make the road to a better you a tad more rewarding. The Nike FuelBand, a gadget you wear on your wrist to track your daily activity, now connects …
Guest Post
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg famously commented that a great engineer is worth a 100 average engineers (something every developer knows deep in their heart). He was talking about A-players, and in my opinion the worst thing any startup can do is …
Guest Post As the summer travel season heats up, more travelers are searching for special deals and last-minute bargains. It seems that travel startup sites are responding with improved performance and availability.
Editor's Pick
Are you an expert Facebook marketer? If so, that could be bad news, because when it comes to Twitter, everything you know is wrong. Well, many things.
Buddy Media, the social media engagement company, recently completed a study of 320 …
Twitter and LinkedIn have had a very public falling out.
Twitter posted earlier today about “delivering a consistent Twitter experience,” which basically meant, as Owen Thomas at Business Insider noted, they were taking their ball and going home. The impact …
Funding news was rather slow today, but then again, it’s the end of the week. And no one wants to release major news with Google is stealing all the spotlight at this week at its Google I/O conference. However, here …
An outage of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia has taken down Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services. According to numerous Twitter updates and our own checks, all three services are unavailable as of Friday evening at 9:10 p.m. …
A team from the University of Texas at Austin showed Homeland Security just how detrimental GPS spoofing can be to our drones program. The group hacked a school-owned drone using a cheap, home-made spoofing tool.
With Homeland Security officials standing …
Samsung and Google are taking a beating from Apple this week. The iPhone maker just won an injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, after having already blocked the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 earlier this week.
Apple and …
OnLive hasn’t announced any deals yet to get its cloud gaming service into Sony products. But we’ve spotted a very interesting reference to OnLive in a new Sony product: an Internet-streaming Blu-ray player that comes with Google TV.
As you …
Frustrated by how difficult it is to collaborate on decision-making over e-mail, AdMob founder Omar Hamoui today launched Maybe, a startup that simplifies the process of making decisions online.
Maybe is like a strange hybrid of Q&A sites like Quora, …
Facebook will be joining the old guard next month with its first official earnings call, in which it will offer details on and explanations of its financial decisions over the past few months to investors and press.
The call is …
This past week I panned Wickr, a popular new iPhone app that promises “secure, military-grade communications” by encrypting your emails and giving you remote delete functionality.
As I mentioned at the time, I was fairly excited about the app at …
Crowd sourced education startup Udemy debuted a completely redesigned website today that will make it easier for students to track their progress, engage with their instructors, and discover more courses that interest them.
Udemy is an online learning platform that …
