Pinterest users can now pin their favorite music videos from Vevo
Make way for more content coming to Pinterest: today the platform is adding Vevo music videos, which you can search for, share, and watch on Pinterest itself, on your own...
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Israeli cab hailing app raises $150 million to take on Uber and Lyft
Tired of the Uber and Lyft drama? There’s another taxi app you should be paying attention to. GetTaxi, also known as Gett, just announced a big $150M funding round, reports...
OnePlus cancels its competition after being accused of sexism
If you want to get more women involved in your community, throwing the equivalent of a sketchy online beauty contest and labeling it “chivalry” probably isn’t the way to do...
Electric Imp has raised $15 million to bring the Internet of Things to reality
Electric Imp, a startup that builds Wi-Fi modules and cloud for connecting devices has raised $15 million in Series B financing from a slew of investors, including Chinese contract manufacturer,...
A murderer actually asked Siri how to hide his dead roommate’s body
Siri is a lot of things to a lot of people, but we don’t think we’ve ever seen it as a potential accomplice to murder before. 9to5Mac has a nice...
Samsung is ditching plastic for metal with its new smartphone
Samsung is ditching plastic in favor of metal on its new smartphone, abandoning what some critics have called a cheap aesthetic. The tech company’s new high-end smartphone, the Galaxy Alpha,...
AdStage has raised $6.25 to improve cross-platform ad campaigns
AdStage, a startup whose co-founder and CEO Sahil Jain said he plans on “bringing a real SaaS model to the ad tech space,” is announcing that it has raised a...
Amazon is taking on Square and PayPal with a new credit card reader
Amazon on Wednesday unveiled a new mobile-payment service that could bring the online retail giant into local businesses and threaten rival companies like Square and eBay's PayPal. Amazon Local Register...
Spotify and BandPage are making it easier for artists to sell merchandise
As Spotify reportedly inches closer to an IPO, the company continues to build out its presence as an e-commerce platform for artists to market themselves and generate revenue beyond basic...
Lookout has raised $150 million to build a mobile anti-malware network
Things are really looking up for mobile security player Lookout. Lookout, based in San Francisco, has raised $150 million from a bevy of well known investors, it announced Wednesday, including...
The Om One is a speaker that levitates in the air
This is a floating Bluetooth speaker. It's suspended above its base thanks to an electromagnet and can play music from any Bluetooth source. It's called the Om One. It also...
The successor to Motorola’s Moto G is coming out in September
The follow-up to Motorola’s Moto G will cost about $330 and be available in early September, according to a report from GSM Arena. Referencing information from an anonymous retailer, the...
The creators of Siri are working on a revolutionary new virtual assistant
Siri was incredibly cool when it first came on the iPhone 4s out back in 2011 but times have changed and our expectations are much higher for what a digital...
Yahoo has acquired a location-based recommendation app called Zofari
Yahoo has picked up a dizzying number of startups since its Tumblr acquisition in May 2013, and today it added one more with Zofari. The startup currently offers an Android...
The FCC wants to protects civilians from “Stingray” devices
Devices known as Stingrays, which can secretly track and record phone users by mimicking cell phone towers, have been a hot topic in law enforcement and civil liberties circles for...
Alienware wants to to attract more customers with its “console mode”
The PC master race may have a point about graphics quality and performance that you get fromgaming PCs versus purpose-built consoles, but that hasn’t stopped Alienware from looking at ways...
Square has decided not to make its own credit card
Square has decided against making its own credit card, according to Fast Company. The decision not to move forward comes after CEO Jack Dorsey and the company's other executives initially...
EverString has raised $12 million to help companies sell more stuff
EverString, a big data startup that helps companies identify prospective sales leads and new clients though predictive analytics, has raised $12 million in a series A funding round. Lightspeed Venture...
Japanese scientists have created a way to record chemical reactions
You know those high-speed cameras used to film mesmerizing ultra slo-mo videos? They're downright slow compared to this one developed by researchers from The University of Tokyo and Keio University...
T-Mobile has made its Pay as You Go plans much more simple
Pay-per-use cellphone plans are sometimes befuddling -- the rates can change depending on whether you're calling or texting, or how much cash you put on your account. T-Mobile thinks it...