Louie Baur — Two Takes contributions

Online piracy has always been more of a matter of convenience than money, and now there’s even more data to prove that. A new study from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has found that music streaming services like Spotify have a direct effect on music piracy. According to the s

It disgusts me that many of the things that consumers in the United States purchase aren’t actually theirs, despite the fact that they paid money for them. Legally speaking, it’s more like consumers are paying for the ability to use someone else’s property, all because of asinine c

Theranos is one of the hottest and most-valuable startups in the world at the moment, but the company has been facing a lot of heat from the media this year over the validity of many of its claims, ranging from how well its technology works to which companies it’s doing business with. On top o

Firing a bunch of people right after he was named the permanent CEO of Twitter probably wasn’t the best way for Jack Dorsey to start things off, which is why he decided to distribute a third of his Twitter stock to the remaining employees that survived the recent purge. Considering how Dorsey

Li Xiaolu isn’t a name that many in the West are familiar with, but in China, she’s a famous actress, one who accidentally revealed the next flagship smartphone from LeTV. However, rather than asking her to take the images down, LeTV went and reposted the images of the LeTV 2 to its offi

Consolidation is the name of the game in the computer component market nowadays, with SanDisk and Western Digital being the latest companies to combine into a single, much larger company. Earlier today, Western Digital announced that it’ll be acquiring SanDisk for somewhere around $19 billion

I honestly wasn’t expecting much from Swatch’s answer to the Apple Watch, but the Swiss watchmaker still managed to disappoint me. Rather than equipping its smartwatch with all the bells and whistles (and sensors) that other companies use as the selling point for their smartwatches, Swat

Discovery and collection are what Pinterest is all about, and the Place Pins feature that the company introduced a couple of years ago is supposed to take those two things and apply them to the travel market. With the feature, users are able to take Pinterest’s unparalleled visual discovery ab

Popcorn Time brought online piracy to the Streaming Era of entertainment by offering users a Netflix-like service that allows them to stream pirated movies and television shows to their devices without paying a dime, and now Aurous wants to do the same thing with music. If Popcorn Time is the Netfli

The PRIV is far more than the BlackBerry’s first Android smartphone, it may very well be one of the last handsets the company ever makes, depending on how well the smartphone does. BlackBerry CEO John Chen has already suggested that his company might stop making handsets next year if it doesn&

Now that Jack Dorsey is back as the CEO of Twitter, this time for good, one of the first things he’s going to do is fire a bunch of people, starting next week. This is according to a report from Re/code, which claims that Twitter is looking to cut costs and possibly even make itself […]

We know that OnePlus is planning to release another smartphone before the end of the year, and we’re pretty sure it’ll cost $249.99, but a number of conflicting reports have made it difficult to determine the name of the device and what kind of specs it’ll have. Fortunately, CEO Li

One of the biggest concerns that Twitter’s board of directors had with naming Jack Dorsey as the company’s permanent CEO was the fact that he was already the CEO of Square, but obviously they decided to go through with the decision anyway. This means Jack Dorsey is now among the handful

With its ultra-popular premium hardware that people either think is overpriced crap or top-quality product, Razer is pretty much the Beats Electronics of the gaming world, but it’s newest product doesn’t actually have anything to do with gaming. It’s called Razer Music, but don&#82

Coloring is already fun and engaging for people of all ages, but Disney Research has developed an app that takes things to the next level by bringing people’s drawings to life. The augmented reality app allows users to capture real-time images from their smartphone’s camera and then map

Xiaomi is taking its sweet time before unveiling the highly-anticipated Mi5, but with the end of the year growing closer, the company won’t be able to wait much longer. In the meantime, there seems to be no shortage of rumors regarding the flagship smartphone, such as the one from earlier this

It looks like investors are still very, very interested in online lenders. For proof of this, you need look no further than San Francisco, where a local startup by the name of Social Finance just completed a $1 billion round of funding led by Japan’s SoftBank, which brings its lifetime funding

Instagram limited itself to using square pictures, Snapchat limited itself to sending disappearing messages, and Twitter limited itself to supporting 140-character or less posts. These limitations are the quirks that made these social networks what they are today, but now that the three of them have