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
CloudFlare, the security-focused content delivery network, already protects its customers from DDoS attacks and other attacks, but today, the company is taking another step to ensure its customers remain in control of their sites. CloudFlare is launching a domain registry service … | Continue reading
Virtual Reality is huge, and ever since Google cheekily launched Cardboard at I/O 2014, everyone wants to check it out. Now its Coca-Cola’s turn. While it’s just an experiment the company is showing off, Coca-Cola is nevertheless toying with the idea of turning 12-packs of soda i … | Continue reading
The creators of a buzzy but controversial mobile game called Stolen, which let users buy and sell Twitter profiles as if they were trading cards, proactively shut their application down after responding to criticism that its game mechanics allowed for abuse and bullying. The comp … | Continue reading
Picture this: You're hungry, so you order some food online. But when it comes 30 minutes later, it's not being handed to you by a human. Instead, you pluck it out of a robot.It sounds weird, but some of the founders of Skype want to make it a reality. So Ahti Heinla and Janus Fri … | Continue reading
At this year's Mobile World Congress, the HTC Vive virtual reality headset has been adorned with an aggressive $799 price and a few small aesthetic tweaks to finalize its consumer edition look. It has also wowed and amazed everyone who has tried it, myself included. HTC is rapidl … | Continue reading
It’s been a busy week for Snapchat. After allowing anyone to create their own Geofilters starting yesterday, now the company is adding another two new filters to the mix: Birthday lenses One is meant for your own birthday, and adds a bunch of confetti to the snaps you send to you … | Continue reading
FreeWrite, a smart typewriter that originally launched on Kickstarter as the Hemingwrite, is finally ready for the spotlight. Last year at CES the company showed us a prototype, and we were impressed. As a refresher, the device is a single-purpose computer designed just for writi … | Continue reading
If you search for images of Apple protests you’ll remember that the company has had its fair share of run-ins with the public outside its stores challenging everything from poor workers’ rights to the dangerous chemicals used in production. But Apple has, for once, found itself o … | Continue reading
Global bitcoin merchant payment processor and solutions provider Bitpay has partnered with a family-owned and Amsterdam-based high-end jeweler Ace Jewelers Group, allowing the highly respected company to become Europe’s first jeweler and high-end watch authorized dealer to accept … | Continue reading
Call of Duty and Candy Crush Saga are now married. Activision Blizzard today completed its $5.9 billion acquisition of King Digital Network, the maker of Candy Crush Saga. The combined company will have more than 500 million users, as it extends its grasp from console and PC onli … | Continue reading
While your blog is the external face and voice of your company, your support team is the internal one. According to Jason Lemkin of SaaStr, SaaS companies — especially startups — should be using their company’s product, even if the teams don’t strictly ‘need’ to. In Jason’s artic … | Continue reading
Life is just one big game of laser tag with Father.io. I got a chance to play with an early prototype of the company’s Inceptor smartphone dongle and its augmented reality massive multiplayer first-person shooter app. It was a blast. The company is launching on Indiegogo today, a … | Continue reading
Microsoft continues to slowly reveal more and more about its HoloLens augmented reality device, and the latest (albeit inadvertent) peek, aimed at developers, delivers yet another exciting view of mixed-reality computing. Also, the company is giving the first hints of a release d … | Continue reading
SpaceX is gearing up for its next Falcon 9 rocket launch this Wednesday, which will send a telecommunications satellite into orbit for the company SES. It will also attempt to land its rocket after launch, but doesn't expect a successful recovery. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Volvo is on a roll this year. Following reports that the Swedish car manufacturer is building high-tech safety trucks with Samsung and scheming to replace your car keys with your phone, the company just announced it is partnering with Spotify to integrate a native streaming app i … | Continue reading
Education startup MasterClass announced today that it has scored a $15 million investment led by New Enterprise Associates. NEA partner Rick Yang will join the board at MasterClass. The company offers on-demand classes taught by celebrity instructors like Serena Williams, Kevin S … | Continue reading
Amazon Dash, the e-commerce giant’s smart supplies replenishment service, already has a number of deals with major appliance and office equipment makers like GE and Brother, for example, allowing for things like washers that automatically re-order detergent or printers that re-or … | Continue reading
MasterCard says it plans to bring "selfie pay" security checks to more than a dozen countries. Last year, the company started trialling the technology — which uses facial recognition to authenticate users' identity — but now says it has firm plans to roll the feature out to users … | Continue reading
Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), the company’s effort to help publishers speed up their sites, has gone live today with the company quietly beginning to show results in searches. The AMP project is Google’s version of Facebook’s Instant Articles. The company created a speci … | Continue reading
Booking.com, part of travel monolith Priceline Group, wants to sell you a hotel room based on what you like to do — not just where you want to go. The company has soft-launched a new feature, called Passion Search, which recommends destinations and hotels based on interests like … | Continue reading
A small 3D printing company called Just3DPrint has scraped a large portion of Thingiverse, Makerbot’s Creative Commons-based database of 3D models. The company then posted these models for sale on eBay in direct violation of many of the terms the creators offered online.The resul … | Continue reading
An Australian startup that acts as an intermediary to enable Australians to pay their bills with Bitcoin is now rewarding customers with a first-of-its-kind loyalty program. Living Room of Satoshi, aptly named after Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto is an Australia … | Continue reading
New leadership is coming to the augmented reality startup Skully whose strikingly cool $1,499 AR-1 motorcycle helmet is continuing to ship to early backers. Today, the company officially announced that they have brought Martin Fichter on as COO and Andrew Williams on as VP of Fin … | Continue reading
This post is brought to you by Transpose, information and project management your way.Establishing an effective workflow process for your company is central to how successful your business will be. Though workflows differ from one company to the next, the end goal is always the s … | Continue reading
Following a short invite-only period, accountancy software company FreshBooks has launched its new credit card reader to let merchants accept credit card payments through a smartphone. First announced back in December, the $29 pocket-sized contraption sees FreshBooks go up agains … | Continue reading
TaskBob is the latest home services startup in India to land a Series A round. The Mumbai-based company has closed a $4.5 million raise that was led by IvyCap Ventures with participation from existing investors Orios and Mayfield. Read More | Continue reading
InboxVudu, a service from Parakweet that promised to clean up your inbox by bundling up your most important emails into one daily digest that’s easy to work your way through, is closing. The theory behind the service was that a single email containing a sort of ‘to-do’ list of em … | Continue reading
Yet more consolidation underway in the ad tech business, and a resting place for what was once a leading authority for ranking important blogs and other sites online: Synacor, a company that provides monetization services for ISPs, carriers and others that offer content services, … | Continue reading
BuzzFeed is launching a new mobile app today called BuzzFeed Video, giving you a chance to see all of its videos in one place. Since pretty much every online media company is ramping up its video production, it makes sense to create an app like this. But it’s also a bit of a left … | Continue reading
Telegram, the encrypted messaging app that launched in 2013, now has 100 million monthly active users. In a blog post announcing the milestone, the company said 350,000 new users are joining the service every day, and that 15 billion messages are sent on the app daily. Telegram f … | Continue reading
Team8, the unique Israeli cyber security company that is part venture capitalist, part think tank and part startup incubator announced a $23 Million Series B round today from a variety of investors. Last year’s $18 million Series A round included Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Investments … | Continue reading
MasterClass, an online education platform that’s luring some of the most talented professionals in their respective fields to teach the masses, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Javelin Venture Partners also joined the round, which follo … | Continue reading
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Oppo showed how far it’s come in mobile battery tech. The company demoed a prototype device with 2,500mAh power that charged fully in just 15 minutes. That’s crazy fast by any standard. On stage, the device equipped with Oppo’s new Sup … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since I paid any serious attention to Samsung devices, but at MWC the company caught my eye. The S7, which was announced on Sunday at the company’s Unpacked event doesn’t look all that different from last year, but it’s making me jealous. Samsung’s embrace of bu … | Continue reading
Raw Pressery currently delivers cold-pressed juices to homes in six Indian cities, but it aspires to grow into one of the country’s leading health food makers. The company just raised a $4.5 million Series B from returning investor Sequoia Capital, Saama Capital, and DSG Consumer … | Continue reading
Telegram has passed 100 million monthly active users (MAUs), the company announced today. During a keynote at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Pavel Durov, Telegram founder & CEO, took to the stage to reveal the new milestone figure, which represents an increase of 38 mi … | Continue reading
Razer, the gaming technology company based out of Southern California, has raised another round of funding, a Series C that values it at $1.5 billion, TechCrunch has learned. The backing comes in part from China, specifically the Digital Grid subsidiary of IT company Hangzhou Lia … | Continue reading
Toshiba has canceled its smart glasses less than one week before the devices were to start shipping. In an announcement today, the Japanese electronics company said it made the decision to stop developing and selling Wearvue TG-1 as part of an effort to streamline its business po … | Continue reading
BARCELONA, Spain — If Cyanogen had its way, all those apps cluttering your smartphone would go the way of the dinosaurs. Of course, that’s not going to happen anytime soon. But the Palo Alto-based company has announced a new version of its Android-based operating system called ‘M … | Continue reading
Former Apple CEO John Sculley's new company, Obi Worldphone, has just announced another stylish surprise, the MV1! Dive into the details within! | Continue reading
Microsoft is giving up on Skype Qik, the video chat app it launched just 18 months ago, because its features are already available in the full-fledged Skype app. In a post on the Skype official blog, the company confirmed that March 24th would be the last day Skype Qik would be a … | Continue reading
Nikon is launching a line of compact 4K cameras outfitted with 1-inch sensors, the company announced today. The brand-new DL Series consists of three "premium compact" cameras that all seem aimed at competing with the likes of Sony and its popular RX100 line. The new cameras cont … | Continue reading
As the FBI and Apple continue to very publicly exchange words over whether the Cupertino company should have to help law enforcement unlock the iPhone that belonged to one of the shooters in the San Bernardino shootings, a new survey suggests that more Americans support the FBI t … | Continue reading
Uber may have won over Australian states including New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, but the company is facing a hold out in the far north.On Monday, the government of the Northern Territory announced it would not be making any regulatory changes to allow the … | Continue reading
At MWC today, Mark Zuckerberg formally spoke out in favor of Apple’s continued battle against the FBI. His company, Facebook, issued a statement in support of Apple last week. As reported by Re/code, Zuckerberg said: We’re sympathetic with Apple on this one. We believe in encrypt … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: App monetization and distribution platform Appnext grew its revenues by 345 percent in 2015. The London-based company now serves 12 billion app recommendations to 380 million unique users in 180 countries. Sure, it grew off a small base in 2014. But the growth rate is … | Continue reading
Oracle today disclosed that it has acquired Ravello Systems, a company with tools for running enterprise workloads in public cloud environments. Oracle didn’t disclose terms of the deal but a source familiar with the matter said Oracle is paying $500 million to do the deal. Oracl … | Continue reading