GUEST: The Asia-Pacific region has been picking up some of the slack we’ve been encountering lately within the technology merger and acquisition (M&A) landscape. While US capital markets are tightening, tech M&A activity in the Asia-Pacific region reached a three-year high during … | Continue reading
With WhatsApp stepping up its encryption and new developments in Apple's fight with the FBI, you may have missed some of this week's best new appsSee also: Congress could force Apple to build an iPhone backdoor with this billEach weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and … | Continue reading
You’ll never guess how I got my given name as my Twitter handle. It involved a six-month campaign that included some light Internet stalking, badgering staff at Twitter, $250 and a visit to the patent office. In addition to being an early adopter, I’m an idiot. I failed to realiz … | Continue reading
Up until this point, there is still no tangible evidence one single Satoshi - which is worth 0.00000001 Bitcoin - has ever been used for terrorism funding. | Continue reading
Apple is turning to star power — once again — to sell its latest products. This time, it's none other than NBA star Kobe Bryant and actor Michael B. Jordan demonstrating just what the company's new Apple TV can do. The two are purportedly in Bryant's trailer discussing a possible … | Continue reading
BBC silenced some skeptics when it released its first trailer for the new Chris Evans-led Top Gear, but Amazon doesn't want you to forget about the original trio: Clarkson, Hammond, and May. No, there isn't a teaser for their new high-profile car show on Amazon Instant Video, but … | Continue reading
In the wake of the petering out of the back-and-forth between Apple and the FBI over encryption, Whatsapp decided to throw the switch on end-to-end encryption for its entire userbase this week. Messaging apps appear to be responding to consumers’ need for privacy. Signal – the me … | Continue reading
After Cookie Monster, Taylor Swift, Alison Brie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Apple is releasing a new ad featuring a couple of celebrities. This time, basketball player Kobe Bryant and actor Michael B. Jordan are sitting on a couch watching a Bryant biopic. Read More | Continue reading
Facebook’s F8 developer conference takes place this Tuesday and Wednesday from the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. While the company hasn’t publicly disclosed what it’ll be revealing during its two-day event, here are a few educated guesses about what could be announced. Bots … | Continue reading
GUEST: Last week, we saw a torrent of news stories covering the launch of the DJI Phantom 4 and several WSJ articles about how drone investments have not delivered to full potential. As an early stage investor looking at this sector, I’m trying to make sense of these headlines Th … | Continue reading
When Google Fiber first arrived, it came with a compelling pitch: Pay a one-time construction fee, and you get internet access for free after that.Now Fiber is dropping that option for new subscribers in Kansas City, its first market. In its place are two new plans: A faster opti … | Continue reading
“Every failed on demand startup will reappear as a successful robotics driven business in five to 10 years.” So tweeted Jeremy Conrad, founding partner of the San Francisco-based hardware fund Lemnos Labs, one recent afternoon. Conrad apparently means what he tweets, having inves … | Continue reading
Streaming services have been massively successful. Spotify debuted in the US in 2011 and has 30 million paying subscribers worldwide as of last month. Apple Music, which launched this past year, now has over 10 million paying users. Forty million people paying to stream music ins … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price quickly returned to its previous consolidation zone during Sunday trade. The verdict in the ongoing case of Bulls vs. Bears remains inconclusive. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and rec … | Continue reading
Welcome back to Android Apps Weekly! This week we talk about Kingdom Hearts Unchained X, the Reddit app, Capcom, and more Android apps and games news! | Continue reading
The Chicago Bulls finished 7-1 against the top two teams in the Eastern Conference. They outplayed the Cleveland Cavaliers in the fourth quarter and beat the defending conference champs in a playoffs-like atmosphere at United Center on Saturday. | Continue reading
Ab 14. April werden die Vodafone Red-Tarife und Smart-L von Kunden, die in der EU unterwegs sind, keine Roaminggebühren mehr verlangen. Die EU hatte das eigentlich erst für Mitte nächsten Jahres verlangt, um so mehr überrascht d... | Continue reading
Storj, the decentralized cloud storage platform has launched its beta version in an event at Salt Lake City | Continue reading
Entrepreneurs and investors need to build innovative products and services that benefit everyone, and not just the privileged. Unless Silicon Valley becomes more inclusive, eventually the populists will begin to bracket big tech with big banks and big oil as an enemy of ordinary … | Continue reading
GUEST: In the first quarter of 2016, 35 unicorns raised a total of $12.6 billion from 36 funding events. While this is roughly the same amount that was raised in the first quarter of 2015, there were 58 investments in the previous period. This means that this year’s fundings were … | Continue reading
Dries Buytaert and Matt Mullenweg recently posted calls to arms in defense of the “open web.” I, too, am a believer in the open web. It delivers on the promise of the Internet: a world in which everyone is connected, and you can command as much attention as your content deserves. … | Continue reading
HTC is expected to unveil its latest flagship smartphone on Tuesday, but a new leak is giving us our best look yet at the device. It's rumored to be called the HTC 10 (it's replacing last year's HTC M9, but the "M" is gone), and Dutch site GSM Helpdesk claims to have accurate inf … | Continue reading
VIDEO: The Fast Break — April 9 NEWS OF THE MORNING Spurs trying to solve Curry and vice versa | Rockets’ brass will be evaluated at season’s end | What can Bryan Colangelo bring to Philly? | Should losing teams rest players? No. 1: Spurs trying to solve Curry and vice versa — Af … | Continue reading
Last month, Nicole Eiden and Marielle Dupré were hustle-ready entrepreneurs running a popular New Orleans pie business called Windowsill Pies. This month, they are stars of area entrepreneurship and women’s interest. Eiden and Dupré had just won the Junior League of New Orleans’ … | Continue reading
Farewell to Sleep Train Arena and the crowd noise and the leaky roof that caused a rain delay during an indoor basketball game and the small closet that visiting teams opened to learn it was actually their locker room and the cowbells and the college-fieldhouse feel and the previ … | Continue reading
Like so many organizations these days, Autodesk is a company in transition. It was until recently a traditional boxed software company selling licenses. Today, it’s moving to a subscription model. Yet its own business model disruption is only part of the story. As a company steep … | Continue reading
NBA TV to offer free preview all-day Sunday | Continue reading
This week on Android Authority: the LG G5 review is finally here, Android vs iOS - 2016 edition, LG's primer saga, and the Leica-powered Huawei P9. | Continue reading
I’m in a suburb 30 miles outside of Sacramento, California, and Yoda’s teaching me how to fight with a lightsaber.In this particular case, Yoda is the online nickname for Michael Murphy, a 43-year-old artist that makes his living building high-end custom lightsabers — including t … | Continue reading
Es gibt für Emoticons zwar Standards, aber die legen nur eine Bedeutung, einen Bildvorschlag und wo sie auf der Tastatur liegen vor. Wie genau das Bild für bspw. "grinsendes Gesicht mit lachenden Augen" aussieht, bleibt dann den jeweilige... | Continue reading
Bitcoin or Ethereum? One decentralized protocol developer discusses why he is sticking with bitcoin over a new alternative. | Continue reading
Sadly absent on Nintendo's last console, the high-achieving Platinum Games revives a much-loved franchise on Wii U this month. After many delays to get its controls just right, Star Fox Zero makes smart use of the GamePad's oft-neglected second display and gyro controls, now lett … | Continue reading
Time is money, and professional training can often require a great deal of both. Confidence and cost relief can be found in Pluralsight, a global network of expert-taught, on-demand video courses on a wide variety of tech and creative subjects. TNW readers can take 40 percent off … | Continue reading
GUEST: Historically, mature private companies relied on “growth” or late-stage venture firms for their last round, or rounds, before filing for IPO. That ecosystem has been disrupted over the last few years as large public market focused investors entered the space. But just as t … | Continue reading
Open source software is part of the nature of digital currency and blockchain technology, as these solutions belong to everybody in the world who wants to embrace them. But some people have started to look beyond open source, and the term Open Execution is starting to pop up more … | Continue reading
The recent purchase of a Tesla 3 with bitcoin is the catalyst for this story about how far bitcoin has come since the days of pizzas and Alpaca socks. | Continue reading
Dienstag wird HTC sein neues Flagschiff, das HTC 10, vorstellen. Und natürlich gibt es kurz vorher noch mal ein paar Details, die eigentlich hätten geheim bleiben sollen. Das 5,2-Zoll Display ist wohl ein Super LCD 5 mit gebogenem Goril... | Continue reading
Die neue Werbung von Volvo für ihr XC90 T8 Elektroauto hat sich ein besonderes Experiment ausgedacht. Auf einem Highway wurde eine Matte installiert, die von vorbeifahrenden Autos Wasserdruck erzeugen lässt, der dann als Strom umgewandelt... | Continue reading
For all the “Start-up Nation” fanfare, Google’s acquisition of Waze – Israel’s highest profile start-up exit to date – was valued at just $1.1B. And, while Israel officially has two Unicorn companies on the CrunchBase list (more if you count companies like Taboola and WeWork), on … | Continue reading
Es gab in der Nacht wohl einen Hacker-Angriff auf die Webseiten der Zeitungen der DuMont Gruppe. Dabei wurden wohl möglicherweise Abonnenten-Daten des Express, der Kölnischen Rundschau, der Berliner Zeitung, des Berliner Kuriers, des Berl... | Continue reading
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it. This quote from Anne Lamott resonates with me quite a bit. I seldom know what I’m doing until I’ve done it. I also seldom know what other writers are doing either. I recognize what I enjoy reading … aaaaand I … | Continue reading
These days, there is a lot of debate on whether or not banks should collaborate with Fintech and Bitcoin players to bring more innovation to the financial sector. Resisting this seemingly inevitable shift will cost several billion AUD in revenues for Australian banks, according t … | Continue reading
Greetings, Eurogamers, and welcome to another weekly dispatch from Outside Xbox. Here are another three videos guaranteed to give you a warm, fuzzy sense of satisfaction when you get to the end of them.If only the same could be said for these eight games that required you shell o … | Continue reading
Eine der großen Helden von Disney dieser Tage ist definitiv BB-8. Den kann man für alles einsetzen. Also schickten sie ihn zur NASA und ließen ihn ein wenig mit anderen Robotern Bekanntschaft schließen. Wir würden uns ni... | Continue reading
Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten Surround-Sound in Kopfhörern zu reproduzieren, aber die Idee von Ossic X ist neu. Das Kickstarter-Projekt Ossic X will die Ohren in ihrer jeweilig anatomischen Einzigartigkeit in den Klang integrieren. D.h. man... | Continue reading
The distance from can to will keeps getting larger. You can connect, lead, see, speak, create, encourage, challenge and contribute. Will you? The confusion kicks in when we become overwhelmed by all the things we can do, but can’t find... | Continue reading
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BitSquare, the decentralized bitcoin exchange has been making some good progress with its bitcoin wallet. The company released the preview of its upcoming beta version of the wallet. The beta preview, version 0.4.0 is currently available on GitHub. For starters, the latest versio … | Continue reading