(Reuters) – Fifteen years after calling the open-source operating system Linux a “cancer,” former Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has softened his position. Speaking on Wednesday night at a dinner hosted by Fortune magazine, Ballmer said the position was right for the tim … | Continue reading
Few are better positioned to ride the second wave of vinyl popularity than Crosley Radio. The company has been around in some form or another since 1920, branching out into TVs, kitchen appliances and even cars — but audio has always been the company’s core.Recent years have seen … | Continue reading
Late last year, Congress passed legislation that substantially improved the legal landscape for startups, early-stage companies and the stakeholders in the ecosystem. You might have read about, for example, Congress making permanent the 100 percent tax exclusion for sales of qual … | Continue reading
Oh, hoverboard, how do we describe thee? These exploding toys are a far cry from what Back to the Future promised us — but "a hoverboard-esque board that doesn't really hover" doesn't have quite the same ring.Hence, the very real struggle to accurately describe these ..things. Th … | Continue reading
A new amendment to the Criminal Code by the Ministry of Finance in Russia sees the regulator – for the use of bitcoin – propose up to 7 years in prison for management and executives of banks and financial services firms. For the everyday citizen adopting bitcoin, the proposed ter … | Continue reading
A majority of Americans – 65 percent – now believe that robots will “definitely” or “probably” take over much of the work we humans do within 50 years – but less than 20 percent see this transformation happening to their current job. Despite the fact that this is already happenin … | Continue reading
With more than 67 million players logging in each month, League of Legends is the most popular video game in the world. Actually, that sentence doesn't even do it justice - those numbers are about two years out of date by now, and developer Riot Games claims today's figures are " … | Continue reading
When actress Olivia Wilde offered to direct the latest music video for Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros —fronted by her good friend Alex Ebert — she had something unique in mind.“I’ve been following the band for almost 10 years now, and I've told Alex over that time I'd love to … | Continue reading
Humans are nothing if not contrary. Technology destroying jobs is something most Americans accept will happen within their lifetimes, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, just not to their own jobs — which most believe won’t change significantly in the next 50 yea … | Continue reading
Over the past 10 years technologies like smartphones and VR have marched steadily from the pages of speculative fiction and into reality, and given how ubiquitous these technologies have become it’s not surprising to see fears related to their rise pop up in movies and television … | Continue reading
Despite internet trolls hitting the headlines an awful lot over the past few years, ‘trolling’ is not actually a legal term yet in the UK. The UK government is now being asked to change that via a review of the current laws that govern “digital crime” with a view to creating one … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Press Release: With over 3 years experience in the industry Hashflare is pleased to announce one year Ethereum cloud mining contracts with NO maintenance fees which represents the best value on the market, after users sign up for a free account. The platform also offers l … | Continue reading
Russia seems to be making a fair amount of media headlines again, as their regulation of digital currency has just taken a turn for the worse. A new proposal – drafted by the Russian Ministry of Finance – seeks to penalize Bitcoin users by up to seven years in jail time. Do keep … | Continue reading
Dial-up was a major pain in the ass. If you aren’t old enough to remember using it to access the internet, just imagine that you’re waiting for a YouTube video to buffer for somewhere between 24 hours and a month. That was how long it would take you to download a movie. Not that … | Continue reading
Amazon’s logistics arm is taking a big step forward by leasing a fleet of Boeing 767s that will ship packages to customers in North America. Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), an air cargo transportation provider, said that Amazon has agreed to lease 20 of its planes for five t … | Continue reading
San Antonio Spurs CEO and chairman Peter Holt, whose selfless ownership is credited with helping the team win five NBA championships, is retiring after 20 years running one of sports' elite franchises. | Continue reading
After years of tweeting back and forth with Product Hunt Founder Ryan Hoover, I finally met him IRL when he came in to talk about curation with me for Bullish.“In a world where we’re having so much being created, whether it’s apps, chrome extensions even music, books, podcasts, e … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it’s retiring Melange, a website and a piece of software that it has used for many years to run the Google Summer of Code, a program that gives stipends to university students who work on open source software projects. The Melange site is home to many, … | Continue reading
Happy birthday, Super Mario RPG! The Super Nintendo classic (which had the subtitle Legend of the Seven Stars in the U.S.) came out in Japan on March 9, 1996, which makes it 20 years old today. Made with Square (now known as Square Enix), the developer behind the successful Final … | Continue reading
As we all know, Bitcoin industry started gaining momentum in the early days of this decade. Entrepreneurs increasingly started working on bitcoin-based ventures. In the past 4-5 years, many of these startups have matured into full-fledged companies. Few among them have broken out … | Continue reading
One of the fun things about following a specific platform over a number of years is watching how things progress. Developers and series will pop up, and if they hang around, you can see what they do to build on what they did before to try to make an even better game. Sometimes it … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it’s joining the Open Compute Project (OCP), an organization through which Facebook and other companies have shared designs for their data center infrastructure in order to accelerate cross-company development and adoption of leading-edge technologies. … | Continue reading
Gordon Ramsay will be damned if his chef’s game isn’t the best mobile celebrity title on the market. He’s been working on it for the better part of two years with Glu Mobile, the company that made Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and is trying to corner the market on celebrity titles in … | Continue reading
Lightspeed Venture Partners, the 16-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based early-stage venture firm, has raised two new funds totaling $1.2 billion, according to two new SEC filings. One filing, for the firm’s 11th fund, shows a close of $715 million. Lightspeed has also raised $500 mil … | Continue reading
Mobile is changing how people work, travel, read, communicate, shop and many other lifestyle behaviors. In the Internet Trends 2015 report by KPCB, mobile engagement is better than ever, with three hours of time spent per day on mobile devices in 2015 compared to an hour per day … | Continue reading
NASA plans to launch its next mission to Mars in 2018, two years later than expected, the space agency said today. Called InSight, the mission was originally supposed to launch this month, sending a lander to the Red Planet. But the project was put on hold indefinitely after a le … | Continue reading
Two years ago, John Oliver called Tom Wheeler a dingo.The host of Last Week Tonight had set his sights on the then-raging net neutrality debate, acerbically calling out broadband providers like Comcast and Verizon for their throttling antics and intense Congressional lobbying. Mi … | Continue reading
Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece based on our first two days playing The Division. We're looking to have our full review up early next week.A tourist can get more of a bead on a city in their first few hours than those who've lived there for years, Bill Burroughs … | Continue reading
It’s coming up on 10 years since the Harvard Business Review (HBR) laid out a strategy to end “the war between sales and marketing.” Decrying the negative impact on corporate performance due to misaligned sales and marketing departments, the prestigious publication offered severa … | Continue reading
Late at night at a schoolhouse in a village in rural India, a team of young men are pitching Indian farmers on a mobile service offering them a new way to sell their produce. The pitch is for the newly launched, Y Combinator-backed business, Kisan Network — the culmination of two … | Continue reading
For years, payments has been one of the hottest areas in fintech for several years, and everyone has been lining up to join the party.Now, hands free innovations from companies like Google and Paypal are paving the way for a new generation of payment innovations. Read More | Continue reading
NEW YORK (By David Henry, Reuters) – Depositors at some of the largest U.S. banks are finally going to get the chance to do something quick and simple: send money to another person’s account instantaneously by mobile phone. The idea has been in the works for at least five years, … | Continue reading
The UN's aviation agency has announced new regulations that will allow for airplanes to be tracked in real-time, two years after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) governing council adopted the measures on T … | Continue reading
The Broadway run of Nerds — the musical "dot comedy" about the rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates — has been canceled after a major investor dropped out. The news is the latest setback for the production, whose final form has been ten years in the making, after an early ve … | Continue reading
Fake reviews have been an occasional and frustrating by-product on sites like Google, Yelp and Amazon for years. But a recent case in the Netherlands highlights how one company affected by them fought back. A nursery in Amsterdam has won a case against Google in a civil court in … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Two years ago, TurboTax had fewer than 200,000 customers filling out their taxes on their mobile phone. It was a tiny percentage of its 31 million users — and completely unsatisfactory for Nat Rajesh Natarajan, senior VP for product and engineering at Intuit, the parent … | Continue reading
There have been discussions about the United Kingdom exiting from the European Union for a while now. Most of us know that the European Union is not doing that great when it comes to the economy. Many EU countries have been suffering from economic slowdown for years. Greece has b … | Continue reading
After 31 years, the Brooklyn Heights Association will end its historic home tours due to visitors sharing photos from inside the private homes on Instagram. The tours offered visitors an opportunity to peek inside the unique residences in that particular neighborhood. It’s an int … | Continue reading
Google's social networking endeavors may have stumbled in recent years, but the company has no intention of giving up, with the latest attempt coming in the form of a new feature called Google PostsThe feature is currently only available to presidential candidates and will allow … | Continue reading
Gears of War 4 is set 25 years after the events of Gears of War 3 and features three new playable characters, one of whom is Marcus Fenix's son.Microsoft snapped up the latest Game Informer cover reveal and the US magazine has first dibs on a raft of details.Marcus Fenix's son is … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Six years after launch, Skype has quietly announced it will cease support for its TV app. Panasonic was among the first companies to introduce a version of Skype to its smart TV lineup back in 2010, and a myriad of manufacturers have followed since. So what’s changed in … | Continue reading
Google today announced it is rebranding satellite startup Skybox Imaging as Terra Bella. The name comes with a new vision: “As Google revolutionized search for the online world, we have set our eyes on pioneering the search for patterns of change in the physical world.” Google ac … | Continue reading
Four years ago, Highlight debuted at South by Southwest’s interactive conference during a time when location-based meetup services were enjoying a surge of interest. Today, it has launched its second app, called Shorts, which is based on the same concept but with a twist: iI is n … | Continue reading
Are you ready to share not just your best photo moments, but almost all the contents of your camera roll with friends, family and maybe a few strangers?This is the new vision from app developer Paul Davison, most known for his social "near me" app Highlight that went viral years … | Continue reading
It’s a new year and we have some fresh faces for TechCrunch — faces whose interests run the gamut from robotics to venture to gadgets and photography to science to transportation and beyond.First up, Lora Kolodny joins us as Emerging Technologies Editor later this month. Lora was … | Continue reading
It’s been almost two years since Square expanded its mobile payments service into a new country — it most recently hit Japan, its first foray outside of North America, in May 2013 — but this week it went Down Under with a long-awaited launch in Australia. Read More | Continue reading
Skype Translator is still in preview mode after around a year and a half in beta – and four years in development – but the team has announced a new milestone for its real-time natural language processing tool as Arabic goes live on the service. Along with Chinese, Arabic is one o … | Continue reading
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