Connor Livingston — Two Takes contributions

Pinterest’s potential as an e-commerce gateway is what earned it its $11 billion valuation, and with more than 100 million monthly active users, it’s about time the company starts meeting that potential. It started doing that not too long ago with its Buyable Pins program, which there ar

The Huawei-made Nexus 6P is definitely one of the most unique looking Nexus smartphones to date, but not so unique that Huawei isn’t being accused of copying someone else’s design. The accuser in question is ZTE, which is one of Huawei’s fellow Chinese smartphone makers, and while

People were complaining about the $350 staring price for the Apple Watch being too expensive, but that looks like a bargain compared to what Tag Heuer is working on. The Swiss company has been making watches for well over a century, so I suppose I can forgive them for being so out of touch with [&he

Most countries have numerous regulations that prevent companies from falsely advertising their products, but those companies also have a bunch of tricks that help them get around these regulations. Easily the most common of these is the use of superlatives such as “best” and “first

It’s been more than a decade since Baidu went public through the NASDAQ, and the Chinese company has since risen to become one of the largest Internet companies in the world. However, while being listed on the American stock market may have been the best choice for Baidu in the past, CEO Robin

It’s only natural for the “Google of China” to follow in Google’s footsteps, which is why it’s not all that surprising that Baidu has unveiled its own virtual assistant that’s going to be taking on the likes of Cortana, Google Now, and Siri. Known as Duer, this ar

Considering the lukewarm responses to the LG G4, not to mention the disappointing sales, LG needs a new flagship smartphone to help turn things around, and that new device will be launching on October 10th, according to reports out of South Korea. While the name of the devices wasn’t mentioned

For an Internet of Things platform to be successful, it needs to be compatible with as many types of hardware as possible, and considering how prevalent ARM-based processors are, it’s only natural for IBM to want to make its own IoT platform work with them. That’s why the company has for

I hope Gottfrid Svartholm enjoyed his thirty seconds of freedom, because after the Pirate Bay co-founder was released from Danish prison for the first time in several years, the Swedish man was immediately re-arrested by police. It’s not like this was a big surprise for Svartholm, as he was in

First-party mobile chips are all the rage these days, and it looks like Xiaomi is going to be the next smartphone maker to produce its own system-on-chip. Rumors that the company is developing its own SoC first popped up last month, and now a second rumor has popped up which not only seems to confir

Amazon’s first attempt to release a smartphone may have been a complete and utter failure, but the company has been making some excellent tablets for years, so maybe it should just stick with what it knows it’s good at. Amazon must be thinking the same thing, because a new report from Di

If there’s a finite number of interesting app ideas that humans can come up with, I think we may be scraping the bottom of the barrel. A new iOS app known as Pooductive is meant to be used while you’re in the bathroom taking a crap and allows users to connect with other people who [&hell

One area where Firefox has always been a market leader is privacy, no other web browser comes close to achieving the same level of privacy options and extension, not to mention the fact that it’s open-source. Mozilla thinks it can do more though, which is why it’s now testing a new priva

The reason the FAA has been so cautious with drone regulations is that commercial drones can be incredibly dangerous to low-flying aircraft. Pilots have reported more than 650 close calls with drones so far this year, a massive increase over last year’s cases. According to a statement that the

The United States gets its electricity from numerous different power plants that are scattered across the country, and each of these power plants uses a different kind of source to generate electricity from. While green energy sources are rapidly growing in popularity, coal is still one of America&#

Once you take away the spam and trolling, Twitter is a gold mine of data that marketers would love to get their hands on, and with Twitter’s new Full-Archive Search API, they can do just that. Using technology it acquired after it bought social insight platform Gnip last year, Twitter has comp

Online education has always been one of those things that has the potential to be revolutionary but has never been able to meet that potential for a number of reasons. However, Hillary Clinton is working on a $350 billion plan with companies and other organizations in Silicon Valley that could final

Gigabit Internet has been slow to spread across the United States for a number of reasons, the biggest of which is how expensive it is for Internet providers to upgrade their existing infrastructure. Broadcom and STMicroelectronics want to solve this problem with some new tools that will make it muc