TechCrunch has obtained documents that show Pinterest has been forecasting $169 million in revenue this year and $2.8 billion in annual revenue by 2018. Pinterest was also expecting to grow its monthly active users to 151 million by the end of 20...
Daily Archives: October 16, 2015
Match Group, a spinoff of IAC that owns properties like Tinder and OKCupid, has filed to go public. The Dallas-based company is reporting trailing twelve months revenue of $1 billion ending June 30 this year, and revenue of $483.9 million for the first half of 2015. It had net earnings of $49 million in the first half of $49.3 million, and trailing 12 month net earnings of $177.5 million.… Read MoreTinder Owner Match Group Files To Go Public
Your party enters a darkened room. Candles flicker in the gloom and something is glinting along the far wall. Your thief enters first. Her dwarvish blade begins to glow. Danger is nearby! What will you do? Will you 3D print a wall section and sna...
Dragonlock Lets You Print Your Own RPG Dungeons
Take your iPad, turn it into a slap bracelet and you’ve got Wove, the first computer that can roll up and wrap around your wrist. Wove is the first product from flexible electronics company Polyera. It functions a lot like a smartwatch, but with the added ability to curve and bend. It’s also one of the first bendable touchscreen displays with a kind of technology that, if… Read MoreMeet Wove, An E-Ink Touchscreen Computer That Wraps Around Your ...
My kitchen opens up to my family room, where right smack in the middle sits “Alexa,” an Amazon Echo device. It feels strange to call Alexa a device, because she has been chatting with my family and is building out her personality. As Amazon applies machine learning, Alexa will learn and develop her personality to fit in my home different from yours. Read MoreBreaking The Barrier Of Humans And Machines
After a period of being something akin to sold out, pre-orders are back online for Microsoft’s new Surface Book laptop-hybrid, but delays are the name of the game. It seems essentially clear at the moment that Microsoft either underestimated demand for the device, or simply couldn’t make more before it hit the unveil button. The Surface Book starts at $1,499, and has… Read MoreThe Surface Book Is Now Back In Stock (Sorta)
Happy Friday, dear readers! This week, we come bearing good tidings of new Apple products, including brand new iMacs and a new trackpad! The new iMacs have Ultra HD screens, so you can see everything. Meanwhile, the $129 Trackpad brings Force Touch to a computer near you. We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the TC Gadgets Podcast, featuring John Biggs, Matt Burns,… Read MoreThis Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Apple iMacs, Track ...
Google Play, the company’s storefront selling apps, games, movies, books, and more, is getting a big makeover. Screenshots showing a revamped mobile interface offering improved navigation, engaging animations, and simpler way to switch between apps and entertainment offerings, surfaced online this week via the online profile of a Google employee. It was initially unclear why a Googler… Read MoreGoogle Play Is Getting A Makeover
None of the three cofounders of Vine are still working on Twitter’s video-sharing app. Rus Yusopov, the last man standing, as it were, was one of the 300+ employees who was laid off in Twitter restructuring that went down earlier this week. The news was first reported by BuzzFeed, which confirmed Yusopov’s departure with a company spokesperson. Vine was founded by Colin Kroll,… Read MoreVine Loses Its Last Co-Founder To Twitter Layoffs
A majority of iOS device owners have upgraded to Apple’s recently released mobile operating system, iOS 9, according to a new third-party report which pegs iOS 9 adoption at 55 percent. That’s a slight climb from the 50 percent adoption rate Apple officially announced last month, less than a week after the software had been released, and the 12 percent adoption rate seen within… Read More