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Having more than 100 million daily active users was the easy part for Snapchat, now it needs to find out how to make money off them. The company has tried a number of approaches, most of which involve various forms of advertising, and some of them show promise, but Snapchat’s ad revenue is sti
Last night, Airbnb announced that it has raised another $100 million in funding, which brings the startup’s total funding to $2.34 billion, and brings its value to $25.5 billion. As impressive as that number is, it’s the same value that the company had last summer, but it’s expecte
Hillary Clinton is far from the only politician taking advantage of the recent attacks in Paris to call for weaker encryption, but she’s one of the biggest. While she stopped short of calling for government-accessible backdoors in encryptions, she did call on Silicon Valley to start doing its
YouTube has been the king of video streaming for years, but it looks like Netflix has stolen the crown, at least in the United States. According to a survey from RBC Capital Markets, more than half of American internet users have watched movies or television shows on Netflix in the past twelve month
Reddit has announced that it’ll be making some big changes to its privacy policy in a few weeks, with CEO Steve Huffman going into detail about the changes on the official r/announcements subreddit. One of the biggest changes will be how long the website stores the IP addresses of users, which
T-Mobile came under fire from net neutrality advocates when it released Music Freedom, and the company has run into similar concerns with its new Binge On service. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Music Freedom allows subscribers to stream as much music as they want from services like Spotify, w
Microsoft dealt a massive blow to Sony when it announced that the Xbox One will be receiving backwards compatibility for many Xbox 360 games, and while Sony has made it clear that it won’t be doing the same with the PS4 and PS3, the company has confirmed that PS2 games will be coming to the PS
Mobile payments aren’t exactly a big deal at the moment, but they will be in the future, which is why companies like Apple and Google have been trying to secure a dominant position in the market while it’s still in its infancy. Even Samsung has showed interest in mobile payments, and as
The rumor that Pepsi was working on its own smartphone was one of the strangest bits of news the tech world has seen this year, bu last month, the company confirmed that it is, in fact, working on its first smartphone, and now it needs some help to do so. The mid-range device will be […]
Adele is one of the most-popular music artists in the world at the moment, so it’s pretty obvious that her first new album in nearly five years is going to be massive. Many analysts are predicting that it’ll actually be the fastest-selling album ever, and in order to ensure that happens,
Earlier this month, Square set an $11 to $13 price range for its long-awaited IPO, which is much lower than the $15.46 that investors paid per share during the company’s most recent private financing round, but the actual IPO price has ended up being even lower than that. Last night, Square an
Although everyone can agree that self-driving cars will be hitting the market in the near future, nobody can agree on when that’ll actually happen. Google’s prediction that fully autonomous cars will become available to consumers in five years or so has been the most aggressive of all th
Rdio was a solid music streaming service, but when you’re going up against a well-established giant like Spotify, being just “solid” isn’t enough. That’s why it’s not all that surprising that the company went bankrupt before it was acquired by Pandora earlier this
When releasing a high-end smartphone that’s supposed to compete with the newest Galaxy S and iPhone, it’s imperative that the device not only be powerful, but premium. This is something that’s taken LG a long time to learn, as it’s one of the only companies out there that sti
To say that Lyft is the underdog is a bit of an understatement. Whereas Uber has already raised billions in funding, with billions more to come in the future, and operates in hundreds of cities across the globe, Lyft only operates in the United States. In order to compete with its much larger rival,
Whereas most companies have been racing to dive into the emerging virtual reality gaming market, Electronic Arts wants to take a slower, more cautious approach. While the company isn’t denying that virtual reality will have a significant part to play in the future of gaming, CFO Blake Jorgense
Ad-blockers are a dime a dozen nowadays, and they all do the same thing in roughly the same way, so in order for any newcomers to succeed, they need to find a way to differentiate themselves. Goodblock does this in the most admirable way possible, by allowing users to watch specific advertisements t
Like it or not, GIFs have pretty much become the de facto language of the Internet, and few services are as good of a place to find and share them as Tumblr. With that in mind, it’s only natural that the service have its own built-in GIF maker, which was just added to Tumblr’s mobile app
Pushbullet is one of the most useful mobile apps out there at the moment, to the point where I’d even say it’s essential for people who use both a computer and a smartphone regularly. Now that it has a large enough userbase, the service has decided to adopt a freemium model in order to s
Smartphones are basically the Swiss army knives of the digital age, with new tools being added on a regular basis, and you may be able to add night vision to that ever-growing list of features here soon. Night vision cameras aren’t difficult to make, it’s making them affordable that̵
The best part about Chinese smartphones is the fact that, more often than not, they’re ridiculously affordable relative to their specs, but that doesn’t mean much to American consumers, because they’re used to having their premium devices subsidized by their wireless carriers, whic
This may be almost incomprehensible to some of us in the West, but flip phones are actually pretty popular in other parts of the world, particularly in East Asia. That’s why Samsung still releases the occasional new flip phone in the region, the latest of which is 3.9-inch smart flip phone tha
Even though it was one of the first music streaming services in the world, and dominated the market for a while, Pandora has been losing a lot of ground to newer services like Spotify, mainly due to the fact that users can’t actually choose which songs they listen to on Pandora. Fortunately, a
Being a driver for a ride-sharing service like Uber is a fairly new kind of job, but it’s one that’s already on the verge of being replaced by robots. Uber has been especially interested in self-driving cars, and envisions a future where all of its cars are autonomous, but that doesnR
Xiaomi has launched a bunch of smartphones this year, but time is running out for the company to release the flagship that people have waited more than a year for. Rumor has it that the company has been holding off on releasing the Mi5 because it wants to power the device with the next-generation Sn
Not including the return of the universally loathed invite system, the lack of NFC support is the biggest problem that people have with the OnePlus 2, and it looks like OnePlus isn’t all that interested in fixing that problem. According to OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, not only will the company
Smartphones as we know them will be replaced by “superphones” within the next five years. At least, that’s what Huawei believes, and it’s basing this prediction on the fact that it took twelve years for regular handsets to evolve from the first commercial mobile phone that Mo
Dubai loves showing off the ridiculous amounts of money it has, whether it’s by equipping its police force with expensive sports cars, or equipping its firefighters with actual jetpacks. That’s right, the Dubai Civil Defence has ordered $700,000 worth of jetpacks from the Martin Aircraft
It’s safe to say that Netflix’s push into original content has been an immense success, and the company has been putting tons of resources into pushing out as much premium content as it can. In fact, the company wants to surpass HBO in that regard by pouring somewhere around $5 billion i
You don’t even need to use Netflix to feel the effect it’s having on traditional television anymore. In order to combat the ever-growing number of people cutting their cords and switching to online streaming services like Netflix, a number of television networks have decided to start cut
If you thought Qualcomm’s Quick Charge technology was impressive, wait until you see what Huawei has. Further proving that the Chinese company may be an even bigger threat to Qualcomm’s chipset market dominance than Samsung, Huawei recently showed off new charging technology that allows
Millions of love lives and social lives were put on hold this week as people across the globe began their Fallout 4 binging. Reports of neglected girlfriends and a massive increase in “sick days” at work have been popping up all over the place, and it looks like even porn consumption has
Whereas Google had to jump through a bunch of regulatory hoops in order to test out its self-driving cars on public roads, the Michigan Department of Transportation, the University of Michigan, and a consortium of fifteen automakers decided to just build a fake city. Known as MCity, this 32-acre par
We’ve been hearing that “Digg isn’t dead yet” for years, but this may be the first time that I actually believed that claim. Yesterday, the website announced that COO Gary Liu has been named the new CEO, and he has $4 million in Series A funding to work with. Apparently, most
Google Play Books has supported comics and graphic novels for years, but the user experience has never been the best, especially when compared to apps like ComicRack that are dedicated solely to reading comics. Fortunately, Google has decided to give the app a long-needed update that makes it much e
Hot on the heels of Airbnb’s promise to play nice with local governments in the future, the company announced that it wants its hosts to become more business-like. At the Airbnb Open earlier today, CEO Brian Chesky that his company has made it to where “people” and “businesse
Remember when everyone was freaking out about Skyrim shipping seven million copies in the first week? Well that’s nothing compared to Fallout 4, which apparently saw more than twelve million shipments on the first day! According to Bethesda, meeting the day one demand generated sales in excess
Snapchat’s never-ending quest to find a way to monetize its massive userbase has led it to do some pretty interesting stuff, but it’s most-recent idea is probably the most standard, unoriginal one yet, which isn’t a bad thing. First announced a few weeks ago, and officially launche
Spotify already uses its advanced music recommendation algorithms to show you artists and songs that match your music tastes, but now the company wants to apply its recommendation powers outside of streaming. Using everything it already knows about the music you like, Spotify will now recommend near
Cyanogen has been working hard to deliver on its promise to take control of Android away from Google, and the results of those efforts will be seen in full next year. During the Big Android BBQ in Amsterdam this morning, Cyanogen revealed that it has numerous partners in the smartphone market at the
