Google Still Doesn't Have An Answer For Why Your Android Phone Is Out Of Date...
Google's Android team held a fireside chat this afternoon at the company's big I/O developers conference where it took questions from developers about working with the mobile operating system. One...
View ArticleApple Needs To Steal These Features For iOS 7, Pronto (AAPL)
A designer named Federico Bianco has dreamed up some pretty compelling features that we'd love to see in iOS 7, the to-be-released mobile operating system for Apple devices.He put out this demo of his...
View Article10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning!Yahoo is reportedly in talks with Tumblr to either take a large stake or buy the company outright.Google rebuilt its AdMob developer tools for appmakers who want to make money through...
View ArticleBrain-Controlling Magnets Exist, And Scientists Are Making Them Stronger
If you were to tell people that the technology exists to manipulate the workings of people's brains, they may not believe you. That sort of thing is the stuff of cheap sci-fi B movies. If someone in...
View ArticleBig Changes At Y Combinator: One Partner Out, 6 Partners In Including...
Yesterday, Paul Graham announced some personnel changes at Y Combinator. One of its partners, Harj Tagger, is leaving to found a company after he does some traveling. In his place, Y Combinator has...
View ArticleHP Execs Are Finding Some Dark Humor In All The Rumors About Autonomy Layoffs...
Autonomy has seen its fair share of turmoil since HP acquired it in 2011, as several senior executives have left and rumors have swirled that HP is looking to sell the troubled unit or gut its staff...
View ArticleWhat The 'End Of Ownership' Will Look Like
Silicon Valley is pushing America into a "share culture," which will completely change how we live and work. It's an emerging trend, especially in the transportation sector, with companies like Zipcar...
View ArticleThe HTML5 Vs. Native Apps Battle Broken Down
An HTML5 app is housed on the Web and runs inside a mobile browser. Unlike apps built specifically for Apple devices or Google's Android operating system, it does not need to be built from scratch for...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: The Facebook IPO, One Year Later (FB)
It's been one year since Facebook went public. We assume a lot of IPO investors aren't happy with how things turned out. But, from Facebook's perspective, it all worked out. It got a good price on its...
View ArticleHow An Accident Turned A CNet Editor Into BlackBerry Z10 Fan (BBRY)
When CNet editor and reviewer Brian Bennett lost his "lovely HTC One test unit" while traveling, he was forced to use the other test phone he brought with him, a BlackBerry Z10.He expected to be...
View ArticleMarketo's Makes A Mint As It's IPO Shares Soared Over 77% (MKTO)
Marketo had a good, good day. Its stock launched on Nasdaq, rising nearly 78% from the opening price of $13 to over $23.Bruce Cleveland and Doug Pepper from venture capital firm InterWest Partners did...
View ArticleMicrosoft Is Courting New Developers, But Some Existing Ones Are Still Fuming...
Microsoft has formed a new "deep tech" team of executives whose duties will include recruiting non-Microsoft developers to build apps using its products.The idea is to get Microsoft closer to...
View Article28 Incredible Things You Never Knew About How The 'Harry Potter' Movies Were...
Warner Brothers spent 10 years in Leavesden, U.K., filming eight "Harry Potter" films.The studios are massive and reveal how the movies were made using the most incredible special effects in the film...
View Article17 Money-Making Techniques That Startups Can't Afford To Screw Up
Advertising is hardly ever the right answer to building a sustainable, profitable startup.Yet so many do it.Instead, startup founders and CEOs need to focus on what they could charge for that people...
View ArticleWhy Yahoo Might Pay $1.1 Billion For Tumblr Even Though It Only Has $13...
If Yahoo! buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion — a deal that may get approved as soon as Sunday night according to AllThingsD — one fact is likely to get cited a lot when the acquisition is announced: That...
View ArticleGoogle's Plan To Take Over The World (GOOG)
Google's big keynote at its I/O developers conference this week wore me out.Not because it lasted a grueling three hours and fifty minutes, but because of what was announced. With every new product...
View ArticleBloomberg Gets IBM Ex-CEO Sam Palmisano To Investigate Its Terminal Scandal
For the past week, there's been a big brouhaha at Bloomberg over how reporters for the business news service have been using the company’s terminals to monitor employees on Wall Street.Some reporters...
View Article15 Enterprise Tech Rock Stars You've Never Heard Of But Should Know
There's a major revolution going on right now in enterprise technology. Apps, devices, cloud computing, big data, networks, software are all being overhauled.There are lots of well-known people leading...
View ArticleWhat's Tough And Awesome About Being A Well-Known Couple In Silicon Valley
What's it like when two well-known startup founders live under the same roof?Brit and Dave Morin first met a few years ago. Their first date was over coffee, talking about technology. Now they're...
View ArticleApple Yanks Bang With Friends From App Store
Last week, Bang With Friends proudly announced Android and iPhone versions of its controversial and super popular dating app, but now Apple has pulled the app from its app store.It's not exactly clear...
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