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 …
Apple’s ubiquitous iPhone is now outselling all other smartphones combined, including prominent Android devices, on AT&T and Sprint, according to new data from Canaccord Genuity.
“We believe iPhones are outselling all other smartphones combined at Sprint and AT&T and selling …
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.…
A teacher’s aid who refused to give her school system access to her private Facebook account is now filing a lawsuit against her employer, according to a report from local Michigan news station WSBT.
The news follows a flurry of …
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 …
Sapphire Energy, a company that creates algae-based fuel, just announced a whopping $144 million in funding.
In recent years several startups have emerged to create fuel out of plant material, all hoping to lure people away from gasoline made from …
Cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox revealed today that half of the mega-popular rock band U2, Bono and The Edge, are investors in the company, according to a Dropbox tweet this morning.
Dropbox closed a jaw-dropping $250 million round this past October, …
Update: Sciarra, in a Pinterest blog post, confirmed his departure.
Is there trouble in Pinterest paradise?
Paul Sciarra (pictured, left), co-founder of digital pin-board sensation Pinterest, is said to be on his way out the door. Sciarra will be …
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 …
Credit card processor Global Payments released a statement yesterday, admitting that its systems have been compromised. The announcement came after reports surfaced that thousands of credit card accounts had been breached through its machines.
Last week, security researcher Brian Krebbs, …
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 …
Customer-data analytics service KISSmetrics has unveiled a new feature called Database Sync, which combs through old data to provide insights.
Nearly every company these days uses some form of analytics tool to figure out if its business decisions are working. …
The data is in: The first quarter of 2012 was a roller coaster ride of initial public offerings and unexpected power-plays.
Twenty companies held IPOs, raising a total of $1.4 billion in the first three months of the year, according …
Facebook has updated its popular iPad app with much-welcome support for the new iPad’s Retina display and needed fixes like the ability to sign out of chat.
After a seriously long wait, Facebook finally released its Apple iPad app to …
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 …
The fabled Apple television set that’s been rumored for years will probably be a premium piece of hardware, but not much more, according to Barclays media analyst Anthony DiClement.
In a recent note, DiClement said a Apple-branded TV set could …
THQ layoffs, Sega cancellations, and Sony studio closures caused last week to be one of the worst in memory for the gaming industry. Compare that to mobile darling OMGPOP which was sold for $210 million based on the strength of one game. It seems like one side of the market is on its way down, while the other side has nothing but growth ahead of it, but that isn't necessarily the case.
It’s not just the United States that’s getting into crowdfunding for startups. UK-based Funding Circle has raised a $16 million second round of funding to facilitate crowd investments for startups from anyone, not just accredited investors.
Under the recently passed …
Game developer salaries in the U.S. were virtually flat in 2011 even though the industry has seen a rise of new platforms in social, mobile, and online, according to an annual survey by Game Developer magazine.
The average salary for …
