Connor Livingston — Two Takes contributions

Twitter is an excellent way for businesses to reach their customers, and it wants to get more businesses using the platform to do so. In order to do so, the company has launched a new initiative known as the Official Partner Program which aims to encourage businesses to turn to Twitter when looking

Many people unfairly assume that adopting a free-to-play model is the sign that a game has failed, but in the instance of WildStar, it was definitely a series of failures on the developer’s part that led to this. While I’ll spare you a nerdy analysis on the highly-anticipated MMO’s

Flipboard is pretty much an essential tool for social network power users, and if you’ve never given the app a shot, you really should. It basically collects content from your favorite websites and presents it to you in magazine format, allowing you to “flip” through all of your fe

You can’t fault Mozilla for trying, but the company’s attempt to create a $25 smartphone running on its homemade Firefox OS has more or less been scrapped. Instead, the company has decided to put more focus on improving the Firefox OS experience and, through the Ignite Initiative that we

Popcorn Time is quickly becoming not just a bigger thorn in the side of the entertainment industry than The Pirate Bay, it’s practically the bane of Netflix’s existence. It allows users to (illegally) stream movies and television shows almost as easily as they could through Netflix, but

It still feels strange to be able to say with certainty that, within the next decade or two, virtual reality will reach a level equal or close to that of what we’ve been seeing in science fiction for years. Obviously we still have a ways to go, but we’re progressing, and one of the compa

With more than a billion people living in China, it’s essential for Netflix to expand into the country if it has any chance of fulfilling its dream to become a global power, which is exactly what the company is doing. Despite saying a few months ago that it’s unlikely that Netflix would

Spotify and other music streaming services have been facing increased pressure from the music industry to drop the free, ad-supported streaming options that they offer. That’s why it was easy to believe rumors that Spotify would be shutting down this feature, but a company spokesperson put tho

Walmart is still a retail behemoth that won’t be going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the company hasn’t been feeling the heat from e-commerce companies like Amazon. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Amazon is currently Walmart’s biggest rival. That’s

LG has been pushing its Watch Urbane as a fashion-first smartwatch, with a price to match, but does that come at the cost of other things, like comfort or power? Well, the hardware is almost identical to the company’s G Watch R, which is a solid smartwatch, but as far as comfort goes, some rev

Oh look, another news aggregation app, how exciting. Sarcasm aside, a new app by the name of Spotter actually does look pretty interesting, as rather than just being a cookie cutter news aggregator, it shows you articles that you actually want to read. A product of two ex-Googlers, the app uses adva

Few television shows have enjoyed the level of success that American Idol has, but everything must come to an end eventually, and many people think American Idol’s death is long overdue. That could be why, after 15 years, Fox has announced that next year’s American Idol will be its final

It’s been a long time coming, too long if you ask me, but Nintendo is finally stepping into the modern world of smartphones and tablets. Before the year is over, the company will have released its first-ever mobile game, and intends to have another four more released before 2017. The best part

Not even poor Chinese workers can compete against robots that don’t even need to be paid. At least, that’s what the founder of Foxconn thought a few years ago when he claimed the world’s biggest contract electronics maker would soon have an army of robots doing its work. The problem is,

Cyanogen’s biggest motivation for trying to wrest control of Android away from Google is that the platform isn’t nearly as open as it should be, and certainly not as open as Google claims it is. With that in mind, it only makes sense that Cyanogen open up it own platform to third-party d

Considering how E3 is the biggest gaming expo in North America and the PC is the biggest gaming platform in the world, you’d think that E3 would have an event dedicated to the PC, but it never has. E3 has always been a console show with a bit of PC mixed in here and there, but […]

There’s nothing wrong with having a service that’s geared towards a specific demographic, but the problem with Pinterest is that it’s NOT geared towards a specific demographic and yet still has a massive gender imbalance in favor of women. Consumer diversity is very important in bu

Those of you, those very few of you, who have been putting off getting a smartwatch until a major Swiss watchmaker entered the market will be happy to know that TAG Heuer has an Android Wear-powered smartwatch coming out this fall. As expected of a Swiss watch, it’ll cost you quite a lot of mo