Are You More Likely To Buy An Apple iWatch Or Google Glass? (AAPL, GOOG)
Wearable computers are the next big thing.Reports say Apple is coming out with a watch. Analyst Gene Munster guesses it will cost $300.Google, meanwhile, is already selling Google Glass to developers...
View Article13 Companies That Could Be New York's Next Billion-Dollar Exit
Tumblr was New York City's first $1 billion exit since DoubleClick sold to Google in 2007. But it won't be the last.A number of other startups in New York have become huge businesses, expected to exit...
View ArticleMicrosoft Invented The Tablet A Decade Before Apple And Totally Blew It
Apple's iPad is a revolutionary product that is cratering the PC industry. But it wasn't Steve Jobs' idea.A full decade before Jobs launched the iPad in 2010, Bill Gates launched Microsoft's touch...
View ArticleWhy Mobile Payments Are Set To Explode
Consumers gravitate to convenience. That's as true with payment technologies as it is with anything else. A prime example is the decades-old trend away from cash or checks and toward credit cards.Now,...
View ArticleMAPS: Here's Tesla's Plan To Cover America In Superchargers
Tesla Motors will immediately and dramatically increase its network of Supercharger stations around the country, the electric car company announced this afternoon.The number of stations will triple by...
View ArticleHere's Steve Jobs Describing The Exact Moment He Decided To Do The iPad To...
We just posted an old photo of Bill Gates with the first Microsoft tablet.It reminds us of one of the great quotes in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography.One of the people that was building...
View ArticleHere's Exactly What Microsoft Changed In Windows 8.1 (MSFT)
Today, Microsoft announced the changes that are coming in the first major update to the Windows 8 operating system. While each is small by itself, together they form a big improvement for users.The big...
View ArticleCHART: How Mobile Coupons Are Driving An Explosion In Mobile Commerce
As recently as late 2010, mobile commerce was only 3% of e-commerce. By the end of last year's holiday shopping season, that number had risen to 11%. That's approximately $18.6 billion in consumer...
View ArticleWe Just Got Off The Phone With Lars Dalgaard, And Boy Is He Fired Up To Be...
Lars Dalgaard created a company called Successfactors, which he later sold to SAP for $3 billion.Then Dalgaard grew SAP's cloud business's annual from $20 million to $1 billion in 18 months.Today,...
View ArticleThe FBI Wants To Charge Companies $25k A Day For Not Helping Them Spy On You
The FBI is tired of tech companies letting users communicate in ways that they can't snoop on. They're so sick of it, in fact, that they're proposing a new law that would let them fine companies...
View ArticleLot18 Co-Founder Philip James Departs And Heads On A 2 Month Bike Ride Across...
Last summer, Kevin Fortuna left the wine sale startup, Lot18, that he and Philip James started. Today, Philip James announced his departure from the New York company as well.For the past few months,...
View ArticlePinterest Will Test Advertisers' Tolerance By Allowing Artistic Nudity
Pinterest will test advertisers' tolerance for sexy content when it changes its acceptable content user policy to allow artistic nudes.The online pinboard service currently obliges members "not to post...
View ArticleWe Think We Know What Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is, And How It Can Get You From...
Tesla founder Elon Musk has been teasing an exciting idea for a new form of transportation for the last year.He calls it the "Hyperloop" and he says it's better than a bullet train. The Hyperloop would...
View ArticleGoogle Thinks You Want To Tattoo An Electronic Circuit To Your Flesh Instead...
Motorola’s forthcoming phones could use electronic tattoos or pills to identify users, it has been announced.The technology, which aims to remove the need to enter passwords and replace them simply...
View ArticleHow A Massive US Treasury Tax Loophole Saves Companies Billions Each Year
*Two presidents have failed to kill 'check the box' rule.* For Treasury Department, a trail of unintended consequences.* Even lawmakers who oppose loopholes have voted to extend it.WASHINGTON, May 30...
View ArticleThis Set-Top Box Is Better Than Any Smart TV
A new gadget, called the Fan TV, has everything we want from a set-top box. While we don't know when it's coming out or how much it will cost, we do know one thing: It looks awesome.Both the box (left)...
View ArticleSuperCalendar Could Be The Calendar Service We've All Been Waiting For
There seems to be a general consensus that Fantastical and Sunrise are the best calendar tools available today. But that could change as new "superhuman" service called SuperCalendar rolls out.What...
View ArticleSteve Wozniak Says Human-Like Computers Could Give Every Child A Personal Tutor
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak thinks that computers will become so much like humans over the next few years that children will be able to use them as personal teachers.According to the Belfast...
View ArticleOne Of Bitcoin's Earliest Developers Explains Why The Feds Have No Prayer Of...
The man who created Bitcoin's user interface and performed its first-ever transaction says he is not at all worried about the U.S. government's seizure of another digital currency service. In an...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer Rushed Yahoo Mail Out The Door With Incredible Speed – And It...
The first major product revamp to come out of Yahoo after Marissa Mayer took over last summer was a new version of Yahoo Mail, completed last fall.Yahoo sources tell us Mayer pushed the team making it...
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