With Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) just around the corner, measurement company App Annie is taking the opportunity to shine a light on how well the two big competing platforms are doing. Overall, the company says that the amount of time people spend using apps ha … | Continue reading
TNW Europe 2016 was not only a festival-like conference full of great talks, epic parties and irresistible catering – it was also the opportunity for 200 of the hottest international startups to present 9,400 tech influencers, investors and journalists the next game-changers. Eve … | Continue reading
How much money do you think it takes to start a software company? $10,000? $100,000? One million dollars? A lot of startups talk about revenue, but not many talk about costs — operating or starting up. Note: Assume everything I ever write relating to software is about bootstrappi … | Continue reading
Google’s Street View, which lets you browse cities through 360-degree panoramic views of virtually every road and boulevard in the areas it covers, has once again been delayed in India over security concerns. The Press Trust of India reported that the government’s recent rejectio … | Continue reading
After rolling out live video streaming to everyone, Facebook will now also let you respond to posts and status updates by uploading your own clip. Video responses are currently supported on desktop, iOS and Android. To use the feature, simply click on the camera icon next to the … | Continue reading
We’ve previously reported how AI is developing rapidly and gaining the ability to do things like defeat human champions at the game of Go, describe photos in words for vision-impaired users, detect cyber attacks and even write novels and financial reports. That’s old hat – there’ … | Continue reading
We’ve all been there: you leave behind something important like a phone or laptop, and the panic sets in. If you don’t find it, the typical response is to give up and think about buying a new device. For Una from Ireland, 17 months and a ‘locate my computer’ feature from Backblaz … | Continue reading
Scanning Reddit, I came across a link from r/InternetIsBeautiful that promised to ruin my Google search history in a single click. I’ve written a fair bit about government surveillance and I know that there’s a better than zero chances all of our searchers are being monitored. Af … | Continue reading
Want to hear a really sketchy rumor just ahead of WWDC? According to a report from MacDailyNews, iMessage for Android will be announced at Monday’s keynote. The upside: Android users can enjoy group messages from family members on iOS properly, and find a cross-platform messaging … | Continue reading
The art of stealing isn’t as complex as films like ‘Ocean’s 11’ would lead you to believe. All you have to do is dress the part, which is easy if you’re targeting the Apple Store where employees are dressed in a plain blue t-shirt with a small Apple logo. Last week in New York Ci … | Continue reading
Law enforcement agencies in Oklahoma have a new tool that allows them to siphon money from credit cards during suspected rug stops. The Device, manufactured by Texas-based ERAD Group, works on “open loop” debit cards, like prepaid cards offered by Visa and American Express, and g … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton just won the election — or at least the hearts and minds of voters. Delete your account. https://t.co/Oa92sncRQY — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 9, 2016 Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary. He wants four more years of Obama—but nobody else does! — Donald … | Continue reading
The sights and sounds of everyday life have become background noise to most of us; for someone with autism, it can be quite terrifying. | Continue reading
Lenovo has just announced the follows up to last year’s Moto X, and they’re called the Moto Z and Moto Z Force. They represent the biggest change in Motorola’s Android design philosophy to date. The important bit? Modularity, but it’s different from LG or Ara’s take. The device c … | Continue reading
Today I got a pitch regarding the 10 cleanest United States cities, according to Amazon. Peculiar, right? What data could Amazon have in regards to the cleanliness of each city? It turns out, it doesn’t. According to Amazon, these are your top 10 cleanest cities: Chicago, Il New … | Continue reading
As Apple promises changes for iOS developers, a new survey shows that Mac developers are feeling left out in a big way — especially when it comes to the App Store. The team at DevMate polled just under 700 Mac developers on their feelings about working on macOS OS X, and it’s an … | Continue reading
If you’re a Trump supporter, chances are you’re having difficulty finding others that share your political leanings. David Goss, a 35-year-old “lifelong republican” wants to help. Goss, who recently got out of a four-year relationship with a liberal woman (and says political diff … | Continue reading
At its event in San Francisco today, Lenovo announced the very first consumer phone to run Google’s Project Tango techonology: The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro. That’s Phab for phablet, guys. The device comes in gold and grey unibody metal designs and features a 6.4-inch QHD screen and a 4, … | Continue reading
Uber has today given its users something they’ve been wanting since the service first launched, but it’s not letting regular ol’ Joes and Janes use it just yet. Starting today in Seattle, rides can be pre-booked. Yes, you read that right; Uber’s letting you pre-book a cab just li … | Continue reading
Following up on its announcement last month, Facebook has begun rolling out 360-degree photos that anyone can upload just like a regular image. Facebook says you simply need to capture a panorama on your phone – or capture a photo with a proper 360-degree app or camera (like the … | Continue reading
The Fabric mobile app, which Twitter released a few months ago, is getting a significant upgrade with more powerful analytics. Specifically, Twitter is letting you obsess over your own user numbers with insights on daily new users and retention, where Fabric compares your new use … | Continue reading
Recently a number of relatively unknown fictional characters have began to appear more often in blockbuster movies as a result of Hollywood’s renewed interest in comic book adaptations. One such example is Marvel’s Nick Fury. While over the years a number of actors – including Da … | Continue reading
Google is rolling out a big update to Android devices that could forever change how you discover apps. It’s called Nearby, and it notify you of apps you should download – or other things you should do with your phone – based on your location. Some example’s from Google’s blog pos … | Continue reading
The lives of parents are riddled with questions, many of which go unanswered. It could be as simple as questioning whether or not a local coffee shop is cool with kids, or if a playground is as nice as it looks from a distance. To help make sense of it all, there’s now Winnie. Wi … | Continue reading
Following up on its announcement in January, Minecraft: Education Edition is rolling out to teachers in an open beta today. It’s pretty much identical to the standard version of Minecraft, but with a couple of extra perks to make it more useful for educators and students, like an … | Continue reading
Airbnb is often friendlier to large groups than hotels because it’s more convenient to temporarily share a home than separating into several hotel rooms. But until today, friends have always had to establish a singular person as the go-to contact for reaching out to hosts and mak … | Continue reading
The time required to make an engaging PowerPoint presentation can often seem more time and energy consuming than the ideas you’re presenting to begin with. Rather than spend significant chunks of time building slide layouts to showcase your presentation, you can take advantage of … | Continue reading
When former art director Zack Both left his job at a tech startup back in 2014 to pursue a career as a filmmaker, he knew his new occupation would involve a lot more traveling and moving around. This is when Both set out to convert his old rusty van into a sleek mobile film studi … | Continue reading
It seems as if everyone has a get-rich app idea these days, and the avalanche of available options on the Apple and Google’s app stores are testament to the ability for just about anyone to get into the game. But few of those apps are actually useful on a general scale, and far f … | Continue reading
I love it when an app makes you feel at home in a city you’ve never been before. Thanks to Airbnb I’m able to get a temporary apartment anywhere in the world and Uber provides a personal driver to get me to my destination. However, there’s one app that ties it all together. The f … | Continue reading
Plex today announced that in addition to an always on PC, Mac, or NAS, you’ll be able to use an NVIDIA Shield as a media server to house all your content. The update is set to arrive by the end of June, and you won’t need a hardware upgrade either. The set-top box launched last M … | Continue reading
Between two-legged robots, tech for cities of the future and self-driving cars, Google’s parent company Alphabet certainly has its fingers in many gee-whiz pies. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that its leaders’ ambitions don’t stop there. The publication’s new piece reveals that, … | Continue reading
When we started Teamleader, we liked to read the GrooveHQ blogs – they were full of practical tips on how to build a startup, and Groove CEO Alex Turnbull was incredibly transparent about GrooveHQ’s MRR growth. Blogs like those helped me think about my own company. And having suc … | Continue reading
By now, we’ve all experienced it in one way or another: you’re casually browsing a website when a promo suddenly pops up asking you to sign up for a new service or special offer. But while there’s nothing wrong with a little marketing, recently websites have been growing exceedin … | Continue reading
It’s no secret that Facebook wants to start handling your money: the social network began allowing users in the US to send money to each other through Messenger last year, and also tested a ‘Buy’ button for businesses in July 2015. Now, TechCrunch reports that Facebook is trialin … | Continue reading
Three things to understand before you walk in to pitch your startup. | Continue reading
It’s not uncommon for YouTube fans in India to switch to lower resolution playback so they can save on mobile data charges; carriers’ fees have been high for years and aren’t much cheaper even in 2016. Google hopes to help with that by introducing a new feature in YouTube’s Andro … | Continue reading
After launching grocery delivery services in the US and more recently in India, Amazon is now bringing daily staples to users in the UK with AmazonFresh. The service will first become available to Amazon Prime members in 69 zip codes across north and east London. You can also try … | Continue reading
Just days after Facebook czar Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts were found to be hacked, it appears that more folks will need to change their passwords. ZDNet reported that a Russian hacker claimed to have a massive cache of millions of Twitter account logins for sale, for … | Continue reading
Many Twitch streamers are no stranger to large donations, but what would you do if a random stranger dropped $11,500 on you after seeing you play Hearthstone? That’s exactly what happened to Twitch streamer ‘LegendaryLea’ during a recent session. The donations ended any notion co … | Continue reading
A new report says that Google is following Apple down the revenue split rabbit’s hole, but will make its own changes much sooner than Apple. Specifically, ReCode is reporting that Google will adopt the same 15 percent take for subscription apps as Apple announced this morning, bu … | Continue reading
Tinder is discontinuing use of the app for anyone under 18 next week, begging the question: what took you so long Tinder? In an official statement, Tinder said: On a platform that has facilitated over 11 billion connections, we have the responsibility of constantly assessing our … | Continue reading
Maybe I’m just lazy, but the one thing I hate doing while on vacation is charging my Apple Watch. More to the point, I hate dragging the funky inductive charging cable along with me. Luckily, Zens’ Apple Watch power bank lets me avoid all of that. The small cube does one thing re … | Continue reading
Colorware is obviously feeling retro. The company with a history of skinning popular electronics has jumped in a time machine and brought back an Apple IIe, only in the form of a modern 12-inch MacBook. The laptop itself is the highest-end 2016 MacBook, with dual-core M7 chip, 8G … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg has been doing Q&A sessions on Facebook since 2014, but those were all pre-arranged responses to earlier questions. Next week he’s amping up the stakes by using the recently introduced Facebook Live platform. The session begins on June 14 at 11:30 AM PT. The basic … | Continue reading
I wish the headline was a metaphor, but it’s literally what happened. On Tuesday evening, a monkey scaled the roof of Kenya Electricity Generating Company, KenGen for short, and fell on to a transformer. From here we have a twisted version of dominoes: With the monkey on the tran … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s Surface Book is a great laptop, but it’s also very expensive. If you don’t have that kind of cash on you, you might want to try out Microsoft’s new Surface Membership. It’s pretty much what it sounds like: you can lease a Surface 3, Surface Pro 4, or Surface Book inst … | Continue reading
National Highway Traffic Safety (NTHSA) administrator Mark Rosekind said today that the US needs to be more nimble in its legislation for self-driving cars. “[A slow-moving regulatory climate] will not work for this area,” Rosekind said. “We will have something different in July. … | Continue reading