Chrome OS, the “cloud” operating system that Google introduced for laptops and Android, the operating system on phones and tablets may become one, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The “folding” could happen as early as next year…could be introduced at Google I/O…or not. I’ve personally spoken to sources over the past few years about… Read MoreDaily Archives: October 29, 2015
Chrome OS, the “cloud” operating system that Google introduced for laptops and Android, the operating system on phones and tablets may become one, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The “folding” could happen as early as next year…could be introduced at Google I/O…or not. I’ve personally spoken to sources over the past few years about… Read More
A number of Facebook users recently reported seeing a new feature called “Local Market” appearing briefly in their Facebook iPhone app, sometimes in place of the “Messenger” button at the bottom center of the screen. The feature, which is only in testing but not broadly distributed, is a more structured marketplace aimed at buyers and sellers, allowing Facebook users… Read MoreFacebook Tests “Local Market,” A Dedicated Buying And Selling Community ...
During CEO Jack Dorsey’s keynote at Twitter’s developer conference, Flight, the promise was made to developers that there would be more listening and more transparency from the company. Dorsey asked anyone and everyone (especially the 1,500 developers from over 39 countries in attendance) to submit feedback to the company about its product and how it can do better using the… Read MoreTwitter’s Call For Feedback, #HelloWorld, Garners 5,746 Tweets In First ...
Shots has been pigeonholed since birth. First it was dismissed as just a startup funded by Justin Bieber. Then it was laughed at for being an app just for selfies. But after 2 years, $15.2 million raised, and almost 10 million sign-ups, Shots refuses to die. In fact, it’s branching out. Today the company released the first of a series of original video content it’s produced… Read MoreMore Than A Selfie App, Shots Produces Original Videos With ...
The founder of Yahoo-acquired Summly, Nick D’Aloisio, has left the company to focus on his philosophy and computer science schoolwork at Oxford, we’ve confirmed with D’Aloisio. During the summer, D’Aloisio did a stint at Airbnb as its ‘Entrepreneur In Residence’ according to his LinkedIn profile. Read MoreSummly Founder Nick D’Aloisio Leaves Yahoo
Following the bell, device management shop MobileIron announced its fiscal third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $38 million, and adjusted profit of negative $0.20. Using normal accounting techniques, the company lost a stiffer $0.30 per share.
Investors had expected MobileIron to lose an adjusted $0.20 per share, off of $37.61 million in revenue. The company’s… Read MoreMobileIron Posts Lower-Than-Expected FQ3 Loss Of $0.20 Per Share Off ...
Trident is a remote-controlled, camera-equipped underwater drone – and it’s the fastest machine yet from underwater robotics startup OpenROV. Trident can go “as fast as Michael Phelps,” according to co-founders David Lang and Eric Stackpole. For reference, Phelps clocks in at 4.4 mph if you factor his record for 50.77 seconds in the 100 m. So that’s faster than… Read MoreUnderwater Drone Startup OpenROV Launches A Super Fast Exploration Robot
If you were to collect all of the designer-label jewelry and watches in the world and throw them in a pile, TrueFacet cofounder and CEO Tirath Kamdar tells TechCrunch, over 40 percent of the pile would be counterfeit. Knowing that, buying pre-owned pieces of jewelry or a watch from another individual, or even one of the many jewelry stores across 47th street in NYC’s Jewelry District,… Read MoreTrueFacet, A Marketplace For Pre-Owned Jewelry, Relaunches With New Texting ...
Facebook has hit user saturation in its core developed world markets, so to boost revenue, it needs to make ads work in emerging markets with older technology. But video, the hottest ad format, takes too much data for people with low-bandwidth connections to watch.
So today Facebook announced Slideshow, an ad format that takes three to seven photos and auto-plays them as a slideshow with… Read MoreFacebook Turns Photos Into Dynamic “Slideshow” Ads For The Developing ...
VSCO, one of the few apps to give Facebook’s Instagram solid competition with a photo editing application aimed at more serious mobile photographers, is today releasing its next new creation. DSCO, as the just-launched spin-off is called, takes advantage of VSCO’s imaging technology to allow users to create short, looping GIF images which can be shared to VSCO’s user… Read More