Truecaller has announced plans to merge two of its flagship apps into one as part of the Swedish startup’s efforts to create the ultimate phone call management app. If you’re new to Truecaller, the Stockholm-based company has built a solid reputation over the past seven years wit … | Continue reading
Although Toyota is best known for building cars, it’s been working on a project over the past four years to enable a different kind of mobility. The company’s engineers in collaboration with the Toyota Partner Robot Group are developing Project BLAID, a wearable for the blind and … | Continue reading
Mercury’s abnormally dark coloring has puzzled scientists for years — but a new study using NASA data has revealed the origins of the planet’s unique look. Patches of a carbon-rich material called graphite — the same stuff that’s in a pencil — cover Mercury’s surface, tinting the … | Continue reading
A 99 million-year-old baby chameleon was found in a lump of amber in Myanmar, according to a study published in Science Advances on Friday. That makes it the oldest known chameleon fossil ever discovered, researchers say. Because of its age, the lizard is being referred to as a " … | Continue reading
For the past three years, Verizon has been using a so-called ‘supercookie’ to track users and sell this information to outside advertising partners. Now, the FCC is levying a $1.35 million fine and requiring Verizon to offer consumers the ability to opt-out of its various trackin … | Continue reading
Google never “got” social. For all the resources thrown at it, Google+ just never quite felt human. But luckily Google just hired the guy behind 4Chan — a site that epitomized the good, the bad, and the ugly of humanity on the Internet. Chris Poole (screen name: MOOT) started 4Ch … | Continue reading
After months of preparation, Lyft today launched its developer program, opening its API for third-parties to integrate its service into their apps. It’s a move that’s several years behind Uber – but hey, better late than never. Today’s launch is coupled alongside a new Facebook M … | Continue reading
Following a historic 18 years in the NFL, celebrated quarterback Peyton Manning is retiring. What might he do next? WSJ sports editor Geoff Foster and Tanya Rivero discuss. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
A couple of years ago The Duke Of York in England launched his Pitch@Palace events which have become a regular, and respected fixture in the London startup scene. Today, for the first time ever, anyone will be able to watch their Startup Pitch event being broadcast live from St J … | Continue reading
The Fable series hasn’t been doing too well over the last few years and things just got a lot worse: Microsoft has cancelled development of Fable Legends, the forthcoming Xbox One and PC game. In a post on the Xbox blog today, Hanno Lemke, General Manager at Microsoft Studios Eur … | Continue reading
SoundCloud, the music and audio-sharing service, has hired digital media veteran Alison Moore as its chief revenue officer. Moore, whose resume includes stints at NBCUniversal* and HBO, joins SoundCloud as it is getting ready to launch a consumer subscription service.That service … | Continue reading
After three years, Canada’s Execution Labs has decided to shut its game startup accelerator program. Now it is transitioning to doing fewer, more custom investments in independent game studios. The effort shows that making fewer bets on more advanced startups may yield better res … | Continue reading
Spanish multinational banking giant BBVA has acquired yet another online banking startup in the form of Holvi, a Finnish firm that specializes in providing online current accounts and related services for “makers and doers” — small businesses, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. The … | Continue reading
Remedy is still actively discussing a sequel to 2010's Alan Wake, and is keen to return to the world of fictional horror writer. The Finnish studio's desire to make a follow-up to the Xbox 360 original has been an open secret for years, and the recent trademarking of 'Alan Wake R … | Continue reading
It began with a simple idea: to offer the German public a convenient way to order shoes online. Fresh out of business school – and unhindered by an unsuccessful attempt at a social media startup – Robert Gentz and David Schneider founded Zalando. Seven years later and their compa … | Continue reading
Smart Live has appointed Alex Morrisroe as head of client services, a role he previously held at Concerto Live. | Continue reading
Google’s managing director for South East Asia and India Rajan Anandan told The Economic Times in an interview that the company is in talks with local telecom service providers to pilot Project Loon, its program to beam internet access from balloons floating thousands of feet up … | Continue reading
Engineer Raymond Tomlinson, who invented email way back in 1971, died on Saturday morning of a suspected heart attack at the age of 74. 45 years ago, while working at R&D firm Bolt Beranek and Newman in Boston, Tomlinson developed a system to transmit images between computers usi … | Continue reading
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has backed out of the planned Sandman movie, three years after he helped to get a film version of Neil Gaiman's classic comic greenlit. In a Facebook post this weekend, the actor said he made the decision to walk away from the movie after he realized that he … | Continue reading
GUEST: Almost two years ago, I wrote a couple of features on the potential of the coding bootcamp industry, including one published here on VentureBeat. I talked to founders and other stakeholders from more than a dozen bootcamp companies at that time and have been an armchair fo … | Continue reading
On Thursday, March 4th, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan officially opened to the public. The hub replaces the PATH train station that was destroyed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which — if you'll recall — was rather a long time ago. Indeed, over … | Continue reading
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.As of last weekend, Pokemon is 20 years old, which means f … | Continue reading
A computing legend has died. The inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, suffered an apparent heart attack on Saturday, according to reports. He was 74 years old.Tomlinson sent the very first email back in 1971; at the time, he was working in Boston at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, a comp … | Continue reading
While I’m never all that keen on paying too much attention to leaked images of upcoming devices, I found it difficult not to think of the early generations of iPhone – something between iPhone 3G and iPhone 5. Yes, it’s obviously a little taller overall (as phones have grown over … | Continue reading
OPINION: The stage is now set for a decision that will impact the UK’s business community for years to come. The EU referendum, which is now confirmed to be held on 23rd June, will determine whether or not Britain remains a member of one of the world’s most influential markets, a … | Continue reading
It’s hard to find a company as iconic as Yahoo is in tech. Not surprisingly, Yahoo’s been one of the most closely watched tech companies over the past two decades. But Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman, who’s been in the position for the last four years, doesn’t seem too excited about it. Ra … | Continue reading
In an industry that constantly lusts toward the future, the Internet Archive has once again helped retain tech’s past by announcing that it has saved more than 500 Apple II programs. The San Francisco-based non-profit has been doing yeoman’s work for years now, maintaining everyt … | Continue reading
GUEST: Once upon a time, 10 long years ago, I became the CEO of an early stage software company. I was hired by a private equity firm to get my arms around a business they felt had begun to veer in the wrong direction. It wasn’t a complete disaster, but several million dollars in … | Continue reading
Before the 1,500-horsepower Chiron debuted this week, we had to wait some 12 years between all-new Bugatti models. Thankfully, we might not have to wait that long for the next one. That's because the French ultra-luxury brand is considering a four-door sedan and it appears it mig … | Continue reading
Starry — the wireless broadband company from the team behind Aereo — announced that Kristen Morrissey Thiede has joined the company as its senior vice president of business development and corporate strategy.Before joining Starry, Thiede was an advisor at Metamorphic Ventures in … | Continue reading
Baron Davis kept his expectations low for his first professional basketball game in four years. | Continue reading
California's new 220-mph bullet train won't begin accepting passengers until at least 2025, three years later than the initial schedule, according to a new business plan released by the agency overseeing the long-gestating project. But there's a silver lining: the high-speed rail … | Continue reading
A buried knife was found at O. J. Simpson's estate during construction work, though no one is sure exactly when, TMZ reports. Though the construction worker gave it to a nearby police officer, that cop chose to keep the knife at his own house — and did so for years. It didn't com … | Continue reading
Since the 1940s the human species have sent creatures of all shapes and sizes into space aboard some of the most highly engineered crafts ever produced by mankind. Let's take a look at the many space travelers over the years. Read more...More about Space, Animals, Astronaut, Spac … | Continue reading
The Sand Hill Road venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is in the thick of fundraising and talking with investors about a fresh $1.5 billion fund, according to several sources who note the fund could always close at a higher number. It was almost exactly two years ago that the firm c … | Continue reading
Bitcoin was first introduced in the year 2009. Since then the digital currency’s network has been growing non-stop. Over the past few years, bitcoin network has grown over multiple times but not much changes have happened on the technical side since its inception. The bitcoin blo … | Continue reading
A few years ago in Venice, I met an old Peruvian woman backpacking around Europe. She had always wanted to visit the continent, but was continually waiting on other people to accompany her. That month, she realized that she would always be waiting on other people, so why not just … | Continue reading
The United States faces a global competitiveness crisis that, if not addressed, will put our nation at a strategic disadvantage for decades to come. In just a few years, there will be 1.8 million jobs unfilled in our nation because we don’t have enough individuals trained with th … | Continue reading
Stoner – John Williams Stoner is a tenderly written novel that follows the life of a young professor, from the time he enters university, through his marriage and academic career, and ultimately his death. Published in 1965, it sold fewer than 2000 copies and was soon out of prin … | Continue reading
The biggest problem with Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is baked into the price of admission: It's a film about how the war in Afghanistan affects one middle-class white American. The film is based on the memoir The Taliban Shuffle, by former Chicago Tribune South Asia bureau chief Kim Ba … | Continue reading
For the first time in about eight years, we saw a decline in the small business customer base of app developers (in terms of revenue and per-project value). The primary reason cited is the rise of white labels and SDKs. “Uber for X” toolkits have indeed become a force to reckon w … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload. This week, we're continuing our little monthly project looking at the history of handheld RPGs. That means that we will not be taking a look at a specific RPG from the App Store's past this time around. Last month, we looked a … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Despite the volume of, ahem, material revealed prior to the show, this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain still proved to be one of the more exciting conventions in recent years. Almost every major phone manufacturer had significant products to show off, s … | Continue reading
For years, various laptop manufacturers and OEMs have tried to push external graphics chassis into the mainstream, with little success. It looks like Razer and AMD have partnered up to make another go of it -- but this time, they're working with established standards across the b … | Continue reading
If you're new to Amazon Echo — hey! Welcome. Amazon Echo fans can be a fanatical bunch when it comes to the part-speaker, part-smart home device. We'll teach you the secret handshake later.But jokes aside, we've gotten our hands on a lot of smart home gadgets over the years, and … | Continue reading
G3 Communications has been publishing Demand Gen Report for more than eight years, and from the first day there has always been debate about whether or not marketers should require buyers to fill out a form in order to access content. This discussion was raised again during David … | Continue reading
Despite being branded ‘The Coolest Kid on the Nordic Block’, Copenhagen has often remained a bit of a mystery to those outside Scandinavia. Inside the city lives a startup movement which over the past ten years has gathered significant pace, and has begun to force the rest of the … | Continue reading
This week fans of Pokemon are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the series. If you've followed the creature-collecting games from the original Game Boy to the Nintendo 3DS, this GIF, embedded below, will pluck your heart strings like Meowth plucks an electric guitar.What I dig … | Continue reading