Andreessen Horowitz’s team continues to grow and change. Today, the Sand Hill Road firm is announcing the appointment of its newest and ninth general partner: Martin Casado, the cofounder and CTO of Nicira and a pioneer of so-called software defined networking. In the simplest te … | Continue reading
In a world that’s soon to be dominated by smart cars capable of making complex decisions, or even driving themselves, security vulnerabilities that allow hackers access to these systems are sort of a worst-case scenario. Today, security researcher Troy Hunt released his findings … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Xamarin, a company that allows developers to build fully native apps across several platforms from a single shared code base.Microsoft and Xamarin have worked closely together since a global partnership was announced in 2013 to make … | Continue reading
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) group today unveiled a new industry-specific program called DeepMind Health. A new website for the division reveals that Google has been working with multiple health care organizations, including National Health Service and the Royal … | Continue reading
Astro Digital, a satellite imaging and imagery analysis company, released the newest version of their image processing software today. Anyone can access their software, for free, and retrieve satellite imagery of any area on Earth. The company also offers an API that developers c … | Continue reading
The worldwide wearable tech market, which includes fitness trackers and smartwatches, grew a staggering 172 percent last year, shipping 78.1 million units, according to a report today from research firm IDC. The growth was driven by the popularity of lower-cost trackers from comp … | Continue reading
TodayTix announced yesterday that it closed a $9 million series B round to expand its on-demand service so you can buy last-minute theater tickets today (you know I had to). Walden Venture Capital and TYLT Ventures co-led the investment. Both Walden managing director Art Berliner … | Continue reading
About half a year ago, Google introduced voice typing for Google Docs on the web to allow you to dictate your text into a document. Today it’s taking this feature a step further by also allowing you to edit and format your text by voice, too. This means you can now say things lik … | Continue reading
Google today announced updates to Google Docs that builds on the speech recognition capabilities it introduced a few months ago. “We launched Voice typing in Google Docs to help you capture ideas, compose a letter, or even write the next great novel—all without touching your keyb … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced the release of a new Windows 10 preview build for PCs that are part of the fast ring of the Windows Insider Program. In addition to this new Build 14271, Microsoft is also rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Build 14267.1004 for insiders in the fast ring. This … | Continue reading
It’s finally coming: after years of expanding into new and different cities, Google is finally bringing Fiber home to the San Francisco area. Announced in a blog post today, the company will be bringing Google Fiber to existing homes through an already-built fiber network. “By us … | Continue reading
What if mobile applications weren’t standalone, isolated experiences, but could actually connect users to each other – or even to the app’s developers – with a push of a button? That’s the vision behind a startup called RevTwo, exiting from stealth today. Its mobile app SDK for i … | Continue reading
Polish marketing startup SalesManago announced today that it closed a $6 million investment from Austria’s 3TS Capital Partners. The startup said that the round will allow it to further build its marketing automation technology and expand in Europe. SalesManago promises it provid … | 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
If you're looking for something to do while you celebrate National Tortilla Chip Day today, well, I've got some great news: There's a ton of new iOS games on the App Store. How these facts go together are up to you to decide, but hopefully some kind of bean dip is involved. Eithe … | Continue reading
Gmail for Android is making it a bit easier to add some flair to your email text and quickly respond to calendar invites with a single tap. Today, a new update for the app will add support for rich text formatting — bold, italics, underline, etc. — so you'll have extra tools at … | Continue reading
Google today announced a few useful additions to Gmail on Android. Two longtime features of Gmail on the Web are now being ported over to Google’s mobile operating system. That thing that lets you tell Google if you’ll be attending an event that you’ve been invited to? Google cal … | 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
Google announced two small but useful updates for Gmail on Android today: rich text formatting and instant RSVPs. Rich text formatting has long been available for Gmail on the web, but this is the first time Google has brought it to mobile. The formatting options are pretty strai … | Continue reading
The HEAT announced today that guard Beno Udrih will undergo surgery for a torn plantar plate in his right foot and is expected to miss three months. | Continue reading
Santigold's third LP 99¢ drops this Friday, and today the Philly singer and producer shared a video for her single "Can't Get Enough of Myself." The premise is simple enough: Santigold travels around a city with a fluffy little dog, generally unable to get enough of herself. But … | Continue reading
Instagram announced today that it has 200,000 monthly active advertisers. To compare, Facebook said a year go that it had more than 2 million active advertisers, while Twitter says it has 140,000. Probably the most impressive thing about the Instagram number is the fact that the … | Continue reading
Today Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) rolled out to the masses, you will start to see them in searches, indicated by this green thunderbolt. The beauty of this, is that Google is taking the initiative to help clean up the rest of the web, they are abstracting this layer on … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Skaggs is a seasoned game designer whose hits such as FarmVille and Empires & Allies reached more than 365 million people. But after seven years at social mobile game giant Zynga, he resigned last fall to his next big thing. And today, he’s revealing that his futu … | Continue reading
All right all you budget-minded people out there, today is the day. It’s the final day to get tickets to Disrupt NY 2016 at the incredibly discounted price of $1,795 apiece before ticket prices increase by $200 tomorrow.If you haven’t already, get on over to our ticketing page no … | Continue reading
FEATURE: Freshdesk, which offers customer support software, is today launching Hotline.io, an in-app, real-time messaging service. In an interview, Freshdesk president Dilawar Syed said he hopes Hotline.io will make Freshdesk the most robust in-app messaging support service on th … | Continue reading
Google announced today that it has finished rolling out fast-loading webpages in mobile Google search results as part of its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project. These pages appear on mobile devices four times faster than the same pages built without the technology, and they u … | 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
Google’s elaborate tax structures have been slammed by UK policymakers charged with getting to the bottom of the £130 million sum it recently agreed to pay on back taxes between 2005 and 2015. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) inquiry into the tax deal published its final repor … | 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
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
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
www.ZerCustoms.com - The McLaren 570GT was unveiled today, ahead of its global debut, which is going ... [...] | Continue reading
Formula One cars will have partially closed cockpits starting in 2017, confirming weeks of rumors about the change. The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, which runs the popular open-wheel racing series, announced the news today in a statement.The change will be made as a … | 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
Humanity has been boiled down to six emotions. Today after tests in a few countries, Facebook is rolling out its augmented Like button “Reactions” to all users. This article has been boiled down to six emotions too. Like – Facebook designed Reactions so Liking is still as easy ev … | Continue reading
Renting an apartment sucks. But now there’s a solution for all of us with HomeMe, which launches today in the app store. Read More | 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
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
www.ZerCustoms.com - Volvo revealed today the facelifted 2017 V40 and the 2017 V40 Cross Country. The... [...] | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: So Xiaomi’s Mi5 launch event came and went today, and the Chinese smartphone maker unveiled some impressive specs for a device that will cost in the region of $350. However, Xiaomi won’t be making its grand entry into the global smartphone arena anytime soon. In the bui … | Continue reading
Xiaomi showed off its new Mi 5 Android phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, and it’s an impressive device for a surprisingly low price starting at just $305 USD. The Mi 5 is a 5.15-inch smartphone sandwiched in glass (or ceramic, on the high end) that looks stunning … | 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
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Xiaomi has announced the Mi 4S in China today. The successor to the Chinese phone maker’s 2014 hit handset, the Mi 4, brings a number of improvements in performance, design and build quality. The new 5-inch device features a metal frame with a glass front and back, and weighs in … | 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
One of the biggest names in China's smartphone market has come to the world's biggest mobile show to debut its next flagship, the Mi 5. Today, Xiaomi introduces itself to a global audience on the Mobile World Congress stage as it details its latest top-of-the-line Android smartph … | Continue reading