Brian Molidor — Two Takes contributions

If you attended the SXSW Interactive trade show last week you may have seen a small Japanese flag perched in the back corner of the Austin Convention Center’s main exhibit hall. Beneath this flag stood the largest international section at SXSW where ten of the “Todai to Texas” startups (

Ah, the age-old battle between innovation and regulation. That was the subject of Amazon’s recent testimony before a Senate subcommittee, where the company complained that it has to wait ridiculous amounts of time to acquire the approval it needs to conduct tests that it could get in a matter

OnePlus One owners better start getting excited. OnePlus has been teasing a new product line over the last couple of weeks and the official unveiling is right around the corner. We still have no idea what this new device is but the Chinese startup has released another teaser image with the line: “Th

We’ve been hearing about Vessel off and on ever since former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar showed off the new premium streaming service last year. Basically, the service gives you early access to videos that will eventually be posted on YouTube and other sharing sites by popular content creators. It&#8

Popcorn Time has been around for a little over a year and to call the service a hit would be an understatement. Commonly referred to as “Netflix for Pirates,” the service allows users to stream movies and television shows without having to pay a cent, similar to pirating them except that

It’s one thing to create a good product that people like but it’s another to provide those people with the kind of after-sales service that makes them confident that you’re a company that has their best interest at heart and makes them continue to purchase your products. According

Elon Musk has made some wild claims and predictions over the years and, while it’s safe to say that he’s quite a bit smarter than most of us, some of them are pretty hard to swallow. His latest prediction is that autonomous cars will not only come to dominate the auto industry, which is

Not every tech company can say that its received funding from a royal family but, if news that CEO Evan Spiegel met with Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal earlier this month is any indication, Snapchat may soon be one of the few major tech companies to be able to boast that. One of the things

A new app called Appeer has popped up on the Google Play Store that helps you find apps that you’ll want, or will probably want. The app takes the information it has learned about you to determine what your tastes are and then compares it to people with similar tastes to recommend apps that it

HTC’s reputation has gotten quite a boost over the past year or so thanks to its impressive flagship smartphones and its creative accessories, such as its Dot View cases. These cases use small dots to display the time and various notifications using cool 8-bit like designs. As interesting as t

Sony may have introduced the Xperia Z4 Tablet at MWC 2015 but, to the disappointment of many, the company failed to announce the Xperia Z4 smartphone that everyone was hoping for. However, Sony Mobile Vice President Tim Harrison has more or less confirmed that the company is working on its next flag

HBO has revealed next to nothing about its upcoming standalone streaming service, all of the information we have now, such as the April release date, has been gathered through leaks. The most recent such leaks have revealed that the service will be called “HBO Now” and will cost subscrib

Few companies in the United States have been as vocal about their support of net neutrality as Netflix, probably due to the fact that the company would be affected far more negatively than most if net neutrality laws protection wasn’t put into place. However, Netflix doesn’t seem to find

Alibaba is often described as the “Amazon of China” and seems to be doing everything it can to retain that title. Not only is the country a prominent player in the e-commerce market, just like Amazon, it offers cloud computing services to businesses, just like Amazon. However, the compan

One of the most notable things about the unveiling of the Galaxy S6 was Samsung’s inclusion of a dual-edge version of the flagship smartphone, called the Galaxy S6 Edge. Perhaps due to the positive response to this unique smartphone, rumors out of South Korea suggest that Samsung will be doing

While we can all agree that terrorists need to be eliminated, the kind of role we should play in their elimination is debatable. If you ask Apple CEO Tim Cook, the role of the people is currently and should continue to be very limited, simple as that. As far as Cook is concerned, privacy is [&hellip

We live in world that revolves around big data, and its only going to become more dependent on data as time goes by. Even so, the process of buying and selling data is annoying even in the best circumstances, especially real-time data. This is something that a Singaporean startup known as DataStream

Alien was one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever released, and certainly the greatest space horror film. The sequel, Aliens, was just as good, perhaps even better if you ask me. After the first two, however, things got a bit sour. While the third film was somewhat decent, the fourth film was abysmal