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When the Kindle Fire became a surprising success, and ended up spawning a line of solid tablets, Amazon was confident enough in its ability to create successful hardware that it decided to release its own smartphone, and this the Fire Phone was born. As I’m sure you remember, that ended up bei
Snapchat may be popular, but the company is struggling to make money through advertisements. It’s been searching for a new source of revenue for months, including additional photo lenses and sponsored photo lenses, but neither of those are big money makers either, and so the search continues.
Music-streaming may be popular, but it’s not exactly lucrative, which is why Spotify still operates on a loss even though it’s one of the most-popular music-streaming services in the world. Obviously, that’s something that needs to change if Spotify wants continue operating, which
We won’t know until later today what exactly happened at Twitter on Sunday, but we do know that whatever it was, it resulted in the departure of four of the company’s top executives, including the head of Vine. The departure of media head Katie Jacobs Stanton and product head Kevin Weil
Now that Netflix is available in almost every country on the planet, except for China, you’d think that the company’s quest for world domination would simply be a matter of advertising and waiting, but it’s not that simple. As an analyst team for Deutsche Bank has pointed out, most
In a time where malicious hackers are constantly looking for vulnerabilities in popular software and websites that they can exploit, companies are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money to find those vulnerabilities before hackers have the opportunity to do any damage. That’s why bug bount
It’s been almost a decade since Volvo announced its ambitious plan to make it virtually impossible to be injured or killed in one of its vehicles, and it looks like that plan is making some serious progress, enough that the Swedish automaker is confident that it can achieve that goal within th
A group of researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California have discovered that the human brain is capable of storing more information than was previously believed, a LOT more. According to Terry Sejnowski, one of the researchers, the new measurements put the data storage ca
Health experts have claimed for a while now that Tinder contributes to higher STD rates, and the company has finally addressed that issue in a way that doesn’t involve freaking the hell out on Twitter. After months of fighting accusations, Tinder has finally decided to put on its big boy pants
The Director of the National Security Agency is the last person I’d expect to come out in support of encryption, but that’s exactly what Mike Rogers did on Thursday when he said that “encryption is foundational to the future.” Unlike a number of politicians, such as FBI Direc
Most people have lost all hope that Yahoo will be able to turn things around, including many of its own employees, but it looks like the company still has no intention of selling off its assets. Sure, it’s willing to lay off about 10% of its workforce, but according to Reuters, the company is
The war on encryption continues, and as usual, the politicians trying to force companies like Apple and Google to stop encrypting their products are claiming that it’s all being done for the sake of national security and public safety. The latest such proposed legislation comes from Apple̵
The vast majority of the Tor Project’s funding comes from the American government, and considering how the Tor is used as a tool to combat government censorship and surveillance, it’s easy to understand why the organization isn’t all that comfortable with being financially dependen
Stolen credit cards are great and all, but the real money-makers on the dark web these days are stolen accounts for services like PayPal and Uber. According to Trend Micro, stolen PayPal accounts with a guaranteed balance of $500 are selling for an average of $6.43 at the moment, while stolen Uber a
Uber’s experimental food-delivery service is finally ready for a full-scale launch in the United States, and that should make GrubHub extremely worried. Known as UberEATS, the new service will be expanding to ten major cities (Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, S
When it comes to respecting the privacy of its users and rejecting profligate government surveillance, few companies have as bad of a track record as AT&T, which seems to go out of its way to help the government spy on its users. That’s why it’s not all that surprising to hear AT&
To say that Sharp isn’t doing too well would be a massive understatement. The electronics maker had to receive a ¥225 billion ($1.91 billion) bailout from the Japanese government in order to combat its massive losses last year, but that was only a temporary solution, and it looks like the end
General Motors has made its interest in the ride-sharing market abundantly clear, and if its $500 million investment into Lyft, or its acquisition of Sidecar’s assets weren’t enough to convince you of that, then maybe the fact that it’s launched its own car-sharing service will be.
After a controversy surrounding his past donations caused Brendan Eich to resign from his position as the CEO of Mozilla back in 2014, he decided to launch a new startup that aims to fix what he considers to be one of the biggest problems on the Internet: advertisements. His startup is developing a
Hot on the heels of Deezer’s announcement that it has raised $109 million in new funding, Spotify announced that it has acquired two startups: Cord Project and Soundwave. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, and we don’t know what Spotify intends to do with them, but it’ll mo
Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding Twitter TV Ratings to include Facebook as well, and is renaming it to Social Content Ratings. What this means is that the company will now factor social media shares on both Facebook and Twitter into its ratings for American television program
The sordid cycle of rumors preceding launches of hot new tech devices has gotten to the point that we’re now using rumors to confirm or deny other rumors. It’s confusing, but it actually makes a lot of sense when we start to dig deeper into the marketing and buzz-building aspects of mode
Chinese companies are just as interested in autonomous vehicle technology as their American counterparts, and as the Google of China, it’s only natural that Baidu be the company leading the charge for Chinese research in the area. In fact, the company claims that it’s well within the rea
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, known as superbugs, have become a serious problem in recent years, and many experts believe that the problem will grow to near-catastrophic levels in the decades to come if we don’t do something about it. Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder are wor
Netflix’s stock price surged increased by 7% on Tuesday after the company announced that it added more subscribers last quarter than it expected to, and raked in $1.823 billion in revenue. However, a measly $43 million of that revenue was actually profit, because the company spends ridiculous
SpaceX’s recent failed rocket landing must have a bit sobering for Elon Musk, because his predication for how successful the company will be at landing rockets this year was surprisingly reasonable, in contrast to his usually ambitious predication. According to him, 70% of the rockets SpaceX t
It baffles my mind that most people in developed nations have tons of experience with the Internet at this point, and yet many of them still don’t take online security seriously. According to SplashData’s annual ranking of the worst passwords in North America and Western Europe, the most commo
It looks like Xiaomi’s ambitions aren’t limited to the consumer electronics market, as the company is joining forces with Chinese media group Huayi Brothers Star to form a joint film production venture. Known as New Saint, the production firm will focus on development of talent and scree
Kickstarter is largely responsible for creating the crowd-funding scene as we know it today, but Patreon’s work in this area may actually be the most noteworthy. Rather than having tons of people pool money together to support a project, which is almost like a cross between fundraising and inv
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on Tuesday that he’s taking on two new jobs, the most notable of which is the founder of a new personal fitness startup, while the other is a venture partner for Index Ventures. Amusingly enough, he made the announcement through his Twitter account, an
Remember a few weeks back when Sidecar announced that it’ll no longer be competing with the likes of Lyft and Uber, and will be exiting the ride-sharing market? Well, most of the assets and technology that belonged to the company has apparently been acquired by General Motors, which has expres
Although some would say that Singapore is the Silicon Valley of Asia, there are many who would argue that Beijing or Seoul are more deserving of the title. Seoul in particular is becoming a burgeoning startup hub, and the South Korean government wants to boost that growth even more by investing $65.
Having already become the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, several reports have indicated that Huawei will be joining fellow Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi in releasing its first laptop this year. However, whereas Xiaomi is said to be working on a traditional laptop like the MacBook, a
There haven’t been any major cyber attacks on connected cars yet, but numerous security researchers have proven that hacking cars is dangerously easy, and have called upon automakers and governments to ensure that drivers are protected before connected cars become the norm, which will be very
Whether it’s to avoid long checkout lines, or just avoid interacting with another human being, many people prefer to use the self-checkout counter when they go shopping, but the machines there can be… less than perfect at times. Often times, they lead to even longer waiting or even more
In an effort to combat terrorism online, many governments have been pushing to make encryption backdoors mandatory for private companies, and if they succeed, terrorist organizations will find it significantly more difficult to communicate privately. At least, that’s what pro-backdoor politici
Nintendo is already an entertainment powerhouse, but it has the potential to be so much bigger, and it’s frustrating to see the company fail to meet that potential because of how slow it is to adapt to the changing market. This might be the year that Nintendo finally catches up, however, as pr
The “dark side of the Moon” is often used as a phrase to describe the unknown, because it can’t be viewed from Earth. While modern technology has allowed us to glimpse this side of the moon, humanity has yet to land any kind of spacecraft there in order to explore, but that’s
Wikipedia is celebrating its fifteenth birthday today, which is practically ancient as far as Internet years go. In those fifteen years, the website has not only managed to supplant Britannica as the dominant reference work in English, it’s become the seventh most-trafficked website in the wor
Whether or not you enjoy eSports, or consider them to be sports at all, you can’t deny that they’re exploding in popularity at the moment, and companies like Activision are trying to set themselves up as the ESPN of eSports, but as it turns out, the ESPN of eSports might just end up bein
