Louie Baur — Two Takes contributions

Grindr was founded six years ago with just a few thousands bucks by Joel Simkhai, the same mane who founded Blendr a couple of years later. Apparently organizing hookups for gay men is good business, as Grindr has managed to survive all this time without a penny from investors, but Simkhai is done w

Three years of consecutive losses is not the kind of trend that any company wants, but Nintendo has finally pulled out of its slump and managed to report its first profit, albeit a slim one, since 2011. It’s a small victory, and the poor 3DS and Wii U sales don’t give me hope that next q

Most of Xiaomi’s products offer a premium-feeling experience at a budget-friendly price, but it’s the company’s high-end devices that get the most attention. The latest such device is the Mi Note Pro, which was announced a few months ago but has only just now launched, and at a low

Intel’s hardware powers the vast majority of PCs out there, as it always has, but the company wasn’t able to bring this dominance over to the mobile market when smartphones started to become popular. Rather than using its near complete market dominance to stifle the competition, as Intel

Environmental technology has been flooding into the automotive industry since before the Prius was launched almost two decades ago. Green tech is a big deal and even with lower gas prices today, people are still interested in saving on gas and looking at alternative fuel sources for their vehicles.

Things like lag and trolls can certainly take away from an online gaming experience, but there’s one thing that tops them both in terms of ruining a game: cheaters. Dealing with these cheaters is generally left to whichever company controls the platform you’re playing on, such as Xbox Li

Few people expected 21 Jump Street to be good, and even fewer expected its sequel to be good, but both of them turned out to be excellent films. Now it looks like Sony is going to continue the series, but not in a way that you’d expect. Rather than going the route of The Hangover, […]

Netflix has established itself as a serious content producer thanks to House of Cards, but Daredevil may be the company’s true smash hit. Luth Research, which has surveyed a large chunk of Netflix’s American subscribers, has made some very interesting findings. The most notable of these

Moving forward with its plans to become much more than just a messaging app, Snapchat has brought in Peter Hamby, one of CNN’s best political reporters who has decided to leave the company and join Snapchat where he will act as head of news. Hamby will still contribute to CNN on air and online

As a dating service meant specifically for infidelity, AshleyMadison is certainly one of the more dubious websites out there, which is probably why the company itself has named its founder, Noel Biderman, the most hated man on the Internet. Indeed, Biderman has received his fair share of criticism o

With globalization and the rise of the Internet, it’s easier than ever to connect with people from across the globe. However, language barriers have made things rather difficult, particularly for businesses, which is why companies like Gengo exist. Gengo is a Japanese startup with American fun

Star Wars: Rogue One will be the first of the standalone Star Wars movies that are released under Disney but we know even less about this film than we do about Episode VII. At least, we used to know less, but thanks to Gareth Edwards we now have a full synopsis. Edwards, who’s directing the fi

The final blow to telecom competitiveness in the United States may not be happening after all. It looks like the nation’s anti-trust regulators have finally realized that merging the two largest cable and Internet providers in the country, who also happen to be two of America’s most hate

Considering how extensive last week’s massive LG G4 leak was, many people were left wondering if the South Korean company would have anything more to show us about its upcoming flagship. In response, the company has released an image on Facebook with the caption “You have not seen everything y

Less than a fourth of American adults use Twitter, far less than the 71% who use Facebook. While trailing behind Facebook in user numbers doesn’t really mean much, the fact that only 36% of Twitter’s users actually use the service daily is much more meaningful. In order to change this, t

A significant chunk of Twitter is made up of spam anyway, so why not add your own spam into the mix. That’s the idea behind Spotify’s new Tweet the Beat feature, which automatically displays a fullscreen popup ad on mobile devices and its desktop client which encourages users to start sh

Cameras are one of the most important parts of a smartphone, and the LG G4’s F/1.8 aperture camera certainly gives it an edge of its biggest competitor, the Galaxy S6. LG is showing off its camera even more too, which is actually being developed by the company itself. Entering production this

So what if the Galaxy S6 Edge has a curved display, what makes it any better than the far more familiar Galaxy S6? I mean, it’s cool and all and I’m glad Samsung was willing to take a risk like that with its flagship smartphone, but what kind of functionality can I get out of […]