Google has announced that it’s looking to bring Fiber to San Francisco and will be using the city’s existing fiber network to help accomplish that. It said that by doing so, “we can bring service to residents more quickly.” However, the company was light in terms of the details o … | Continue reading
Since rolling out support for voice typing back in September, Google Docs has made a significant jump from a convenience and accessibility standpoint. Now, it is even better, as today the company announced it would now support voice commands for Docs on Chrome. These new commands … | Continue reading
As part of Intel’s $300 million commitment to diversity, the company has announced a multi-year partnership and $1.3 million investment in CODE2040, a non-profit organization that helps get black and Latino/a students of color involved in tech. This comes a little over a month af … | Continue reading
Yahoo today is releasing some key artificial intelligence software (AI) under an open-source license. The company last year built a library called CaffeOnSpark to perform a popular type of AI called “deep learning” on the vast swaths of data kept in its Hadoop open-source file sy … | Continue reading
Instagram has attracted more than 200,000 advertisers, the company announced Wednesday, a clear sign of its potential for significantly contributing to Facebook’s revenue. | Continue reading
LG’s newest flagship is nothing like any device it has made before. Instead of merely focusing on packing top-shelf components into its new G5 smartphone, the company created a modular device that lets you add functionality by swapping out parts, and also built an ecosystem of f … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Zero Gravity Solutions, Inc.'s (ZGSI or the Company) (Pink Sheets: ZGSI), an agricultural biotechnology public company commercializing its technology derived from and designed for Space with significant applications on Earth, has... | Continue reading
Google has some big plans when it comes to making the web faster on your mobile phone. The company just added AMP-enabled pages in its mobile search results. And one of the first companies supporting the new Instant Article-like format is an important one — Automattic’s WordPress … | Continue reading
Brand Management: Marketing Podcast - Chuck Brinker, director of research solutions at SurveyMonkey, shares crisis communication tips for brands and explains data's rolebefore, during, and after a crisisin helping your company come out on top. | Continue reading
Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), launched to the world this week, and it’s got a big partner announcing support for the format today: WordPress.com. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, said today that it’s enabling AMP by default for all WordPress blogs. That mean … | Continue reading
The still-stealthy Lemonade continues to build out an impressive team giving some hope that its new model for insurance (the company’s tagline is “Insurance that doesn’t suck.”) will live up to its promises. Read More | Continue reading
If you’re a Todoist user working on Apple devices, today is a big day. The company is announcing four updates for four different Apple patforms — iOS, OS X, watchOS and Safari. The to-do list service now supports Apple’s latest features on iOS and watchOS, such as 3D Touch shortc … | Continue reading
Todoist, a to-do list manager used by more than 6 million people, is getting a series of nice upgrades today across a number of its apps. The iOS app is keeping its design but has been "almost completely rewritten," the company says, and will now let you add tasks and view your u … | Continue reading
Web Sites - Just under half (46%) of small business owners say their company does not have a website, according to a recent report from Clutch. | Continue reading
Oliver Burgoyne has stepped down from his role as client services director at House of Experience, while parent company Big Cat Group has opted to extend its equity in the business it acquired in 2012. | Continue reading
Captain401 announced today that it has raised $3.5 million for its employee retirement platform. The round was led by SoftTech VC and included participation from SV Angel, CrunchFund, Slow Ventures, Susa Ventures, FundersClub, legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana, and others. Wi … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s persistence in experimenting with image recognition, machine learning and a bunch of other experiments is an admirable move from a company that’s software is widely used but not necessarily widely loved. The latest app to roll out of Microsoft’s Garage project is the … | Continue reading
Stripe today took a big step ahead in its bid to offer more services to startups, beyond the basic payment services it already provides. The company today unveiled a new platform called Atlas, a platform to let startups to incorporate more easily in the U.S., specifically in Dela … | Continue reading
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today Stripe co-founder and CEO, Patrick Collision, announced Stripe Access. The new service aims to make it easier to incorporate a business anywhere in the world. Atlas helps incorporate a U.S. Delaware company, open a US bank account with … | Continue reading
After announcing that Facebook users would soon be able to express a wider range of emotions on the platform through emoji, the company is now delivering on that promise by rolling it out to all users. The new ‘Reactions’ give you buttons for ‘Like,’ Love,’ Haha,’ Wow,’ ‘Sad’ or … | Continue reading
How you respond to your friends on Facebook is about to change, as the social networking company begins rolling out its new Reactions worldwide. The new feedback “emotions” offer you more ways to react to someone’s post by including responses such as love, laughter, excitement, s … | Continue reading
Apperian, the Boston-based company that offers mobile app management (MAM) as a service, announced today that it was exposing the different pieces of its platform as a set of open APIs. This will allow developers to tap into the various parts of the Apperian solution and take adv … | Continue reading
Less than a year after it closed a $10 million round of financing, the real estate investment marketplace RealtyShares has managed to rake in another $20 million for its funding platform. The New York-based company has raised over $130 million for over 290 properties since its la … | Continue reading
Not often, but sometimes a company sends me a product to play with that helps me see the future more clearly. It just happened again after Netatmo sent me its Welcome video camera — a one-year-old device that arrived at my house only yesterday. Welcome has one feature that sets i … | Continue reading
Face-to-face events are still the most common, popular and biggest producers of ROI for companies today. The most critical factor that keeps events bringing in leads and revenue is the alignment of sales and marketing within a company. Not everyone understands the importance of b … | Continue reading
While BlackBerry continues to watch what little remains of its mobile marketshare evaporate into the atmosphere, the Canadian company has decided to place a bigger bet on cybersecurity. And why not? In a press release today, the company noted that cybersecurity consulting “is cur … | Continue reading
As part of LG’s range of peripherals for its new G5 flagship smartphone, the company has created a lightweight virtual reality headset: the LG 360 VR. Like Samsung’s Gear VR, it’s powered by a smartphone. But unlike the Gear, it doesn’t use your smartphone’s screen as a display. … | Continue reading
Londoners are historically known for being unfazed by almost anything, but a little delivery robot that’s set to be cruising the streets is causing a bit of a stir. First revealed at the end of last year, the Starship Technologies (a suitably futuristic company name) is now ready … | Continue reading
Apple will file legal papers this week requesting that the California judge who ruled the company must help the FBI by creating software to unlock an iPhone instead lets the case be decided by Congress. In a briefing with the Associated Press, lead attorney for Apple Theodore J. … | Continue reading
Uber has launched its first motorbike taxi service in Bangkok, Thailand, just weeks after the ride-sharing app was ruled illegal in Taiwan. The UberMOTO pilot kicked off in the Thai capital on Wednesday but it’s not the first time the company has looked beyond cars to widen its f … | Continue reading
Virgin Pulse, a company focused on improving the lives of employees, has merged with two of its competitors —ShapeUp and Global Corporate Challenge Unite — in a move to dominate the corporate wellness market. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the company said it … | Continue reading
BlackBerry is not the smartphone powerhouse it used to be, but it’s been making a concerted effort to hold on to its position as a go-to place for enterprise customers, specifically in highly secure environments. As part of that strategy, today the company announced that it has a … | Continue reading
BARCELONA — Two days removed from the other big smartphone announcements at the Mobile World Congress was Xiaomi’s Mi 5, the company’s first truly global flagship smartphonePresented in in-depth detail by company CEO Hugo Barra, the new phone continues Xiaomi’s tradition of offer … | Continue reading
Speaking–or at least trying to be comprehensible–is one of the hardest parts of studying a new language. Terratalk, a Japanese startup, wants to help English learners with a new app that promises to correct their pronunciation and grammar. The company just launched its Android ap … | Continue reading
Xiaomi is ready to do it again. The company just introduced its latest smartphone and it looks fantastic. Xiaomi is no longer a company that looks to others for inspiration. Xiaomi is no longer an upstart, it’s a global leader — one that has high expectations and a lofty $45 bill … | Continue reading
The chances of startup success are slim. Ninety percent are destined to fail. You know two things: that you’ve got a one-in-ten chance of success, and that you have to have the utmost confidence in your company. How do you balance hope with reality? | Continue reading
Uber has launched a motorbike service in Thailand, marking the first time that the company has offered rides on two-wheeled vehicles. The service, called UberMOTO, launches today as a pilot program in Bangkok. In a press release announcing the pilot, Uber said the new service is … | Continue reading
Sony will soon reveal more about PlayStation VR, its upcoming virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 4, after months without saying much about the platform. The company is holding a PSVR-focused event on March 15th at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco; the show … | Continue reading
Buzzy Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi is making its first major appearance at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. The company is set to unveil the Mi 5, its latest flagship smartphone, in what it calls a "Global Launch Event." Could that naming, along with the event's … | Continue reading
Uber is expanding its taxi services from four wheels to two after the U.S. company launched a motorbike taxi on-demand service in Thailand. Read More | Continue reading
The issues facing LinkedIn, however, go beyond the company itself. The problem stems from each of the company’s revenue streams, which ultimately diminish the business value of using the service. Read More | Continue reading
With Disrupt NY 2016 fast approaching, TechCrunch takes a look back at companies that have competed in the Startup Battlefield in previous years. Today, we take a look at how Disrupt NY 2014 alum Boomerang Commerce has fared in the last two years. Read More | Continue reading
Pocket — the article and video saving service that raised $7 million in funding last year — is getting serious about its monetization model today by introducing new sponsored content. For the first time, the app’s recommended feed will feature sponsored posts in addition to the u … | Continue reading
Sometimes, there can be a little too much disruption. So goes the thesis of Joost Schreve, the former head of mobile for TripAdvisor, who left the company last November and started his own startup, KimKim, in December.The nascent company — seed-funded with $1 million from investo … | Continue reading
In December, as fears over hoverboard fires mounted, Amazon removed boards from its online store pending a safety review. Now it seems the company has once again pulled essentially all boards formerly available for purchase.Last week, the Consumer Products Safety Commission said … | Continue reading
Article-saving app company Pocket is finally starting to pick up revenue through advertising. In a blog post today the company announced that it’s beginning to display sponsored posts in the app, which works on web browsers, Mac desktops, and multiple mobile platforms. But Pocket … | Continue reading
Etsy didn’t have a good 2015, but it was still able to finish on the stronger side. Today the company reported its fourth-quarter results, coming in at $87.9 million in revenue and a loss of 4 cents per share. Analysts were expecting a loss of 1 cent per share on revenue of $86.5 … | Continue reading
Spotify announced today that they have selected Google Cloud Platform as an infrastructure partner for their popular music streaming service. Up until now, it appears Spotify have been mostly managing that hardware burden themselves via multiple providers, however the music compa … | Continue reading