Twitter’s Root Injustice
Early adopters rule Twitter. If Twitter wants to survive it will need to make the fight for power that rages inside the platform more fair for all. Read More The post Twitter’s Root Injustice appeared...
View Article‘Veronica Mars’ Film, Funded by You, Hits Theaters This Weekend
The Veronica Mars movie hits theaters this weekend, and it has you — the Internet — to thank The film, based on the popular TV series starring Kristen Bell that was cancelled in 2007, comes to the...
View ArticleHow Telecom Company Free Nearly Disrupted The French Mobile Landscape All...
Last week, everything was very different in the mobile landscape in France. France’s disruptive telecom company Free was about to make the best strategic move I had ever seen. Yet, it all fell apart...
View ArticlePotcoin, A New Cryptocurrency To Help Ease The War On Drugs
Editor’s note: Roger Huang is co-founder of ThoughtBasin, an edtech startup that connects students with organizations looking for difference makers. Follow him at code(love). It started with one...
View ArticlePopcorn Time Is Dead
Hollywood won. The open source project called Popcorn Time is dead after just four days. It’s not really surprising. “Popcorn Time is shutting down today. Not because we ran out of energy, commitment,...
View ArticleIn A Changing Financial World, Thinknum Wants To Democratize Financial Analysis
One of the most important functions of any modern financial institution is conducting valuations. On Wall Street, this means developing financial models – projections of how a company will perform...
View ArticleThe African Version of Amazon Will Emerge From Nigeria
When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the company's plans for 30-minute delivery drones with Amazon Prime Air in December, it became clear that ecommerce has exciting days ahead. But Amazon isn't the...
View ArticleBlueStacks Signs On Ubisoft, Warner Bros. Interactive And GREE For GamePop...
The cross-platform mobile software company BlueStacks may be rethinking its approach to living room-based mobile gaming with the GamePop and its distribution model, but it’s still signing up big-name...
View ArticleTawkers Launches An App For Publishing Your Texts
New York-based startup Tawkers has launched a new iPhone app that lets users publish their texts to its platform and creates a public forum for text-based conversations from your cell phone. Let’s say...
View ArticleAfter WhatsApp: An Insider’s View On What’s Next In Messaging
I was driving to a meeting in San Francisco when I got the message: “Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion.” I pulled over and watched as messages started to stream in. Everyone had the same...
View ArticleTranslation Platform Gengo Raises $12M Funding Round Led By Intel Capital
Gengo, an increasingly popular online translation service that uses a network of more than 7,500 pre-screened and rated translators to provide high-quality translations in 33 languages, announced that...
View ArticleGoogle Drive now lets collaborators add friends, start chats with fewer clicks
When you're sharing a file in Google Drive, your time should be spent collaborating, not arranging conversations. Right? Google agrees strongly enough to have just finished tweaking Drive's web...
View ArticleGoogle Transparency Report shows censorship spike, details takedown requests
Governments are getting nosier than ever, at least if you ask Google. The search firm has already noticed rapidly mounting censorship in recent months, but its latest half-year Transparency Report has...
View ArticlePinterest revives classic features, revamps notifications and search
When Pinterest unveiled its big redesign last month, it took the sort of gamble on feature trade-offs that we've seen before: some big leaps forward at the expense of a few leaps back. Much to the...
View ArticleWavii confirms acquisition by Google, starts to wind down its own service
There was an odd level of uncertainty surrounding Google's reported buyout of Wavii: where Google usually mentions acquisitions in short order, mum's been the word for much of the past week....
View ArticleLG Cloud rolling out in over 40 more countries by late May
Although LG jumped into the deep end of the online services pool when it launched LG Cloud last year, it didn't have much to brag about when access was limited to South Korea, Russia and the US. The...
View ArticleVermont Telephone Company’s gigabit internet service is live, half the price...
Remember how Google Fiber's recent announcement for planned service in Austin by 2014 spurred immediate competition from AT&T? It's safe to say telcos in other areas have taken note about the...
View ArticleYouTube now offers more MLB highlights and full archived games
YouTube just keeps adding quality content. Last week it was comedy, and this week it's bulking up on its sporting chops with a Major League Baseball partnership. Always among the most tech-savvy of...
View ArticleNielsen preparing ‘Digital Program Ratings’ pilot program to track streaming...
According to the Wall Street Journal, Nielsen's TV ratings are about to get some company, with a system that covers internet watchers. A "Nielsen Digital Program Ratings" pilot program will debut with...
View ArticleCERN celebrates 20 years of a free, open web by restoring world’s first website
The web as we know it was famously invented by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN, but it wasn't until a few years later -- 1993 to be precise -- that it'd truly be set free. On April 30 of that...
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