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Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley never wanted his app to be just a “check-in button.” In order to be more than a novelty, Crowley realized Foursquare couldn’t just be about saying “I am here.” And after a rocky couple of years, the company needed to create some momentum, t
When it comes to understanding the profusion of applications employees are using to conduct business, IT departments are increasingly lost in the cloud. Over the past several years a number of startups have cut through the fog created by this proliferation of tools to help workers do their jobs more
4K TVs are still quite expensive and there’s still not a lot of stuff to watch on ’em. If neither of those things deterred you from buying one, however, then Sony’s FMP-X10 Ultra HDMedia Player is probably a good investment. The Roku-esque hardware lets you pull down 4K content lik
DayZ developer Bohemia Interactive has been hacked, and the intruders might have made off with the zombie survival sim’s source code. The hack was first brought to light by somebody claiming to have done the dirty deed; on Unknown Cheats, the alleged hacker posted what they claimed were images of Da
For months, I’ve been following the story that the Mozilla project was set to add closed source Digital Rights Management technology to its free/open browser Firefox, and today they’ve made the announcement, which I’ve covered in depth for The Guardian. Mozilla made the decision ou
Pantheon, which currently offers a professional hosting solution for Drupal and WordPress sites, today announced that it has raised a $21.5 million Series B funding round led by Rory O’Driscoll at Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Dev Ittycheria at OpenView Venture
Two high street store chains in the United Kingdom are merging, it has been revealed. Dixons Retail, operator of over 500 Currys PC World electronics stores in the country, will join up with Carphone Warehouse, a store chain specializing in mobile phones with more than 2,000 stores across Europe, wi
Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S5 handset is selling at a brisk pace, according to JK Shin, the company’s co-CEO and head of mobile. Since hitting stores early last month, sales of the latest model of the Korean tech giant’s flagship phone have crossed the 11 million mark, Shin told the WSJ this week. Th
E-bikes make urban cycling more practical and accessible, but they aren’t exactly sexy. In New York City, they’re synonymous with restaurant deliverymen, and in some cases are illegal. In Europe, for many years, they’d mostly been used by the elderly. The Vanmoof Electrified, made by a Dutch cy
While Ultraviolet digital copies have been pitched as a way to make watching videos online easier, so far they’ve lead to frustration for many users. A recent incident involving the early release of Veronica Mars for Kickstarter backers was a low point, Apple, Google and Microsoft all have yet
SanDisk announced the availability of the company’s first, self-encrypting solid state drive—the SanDisk X300s SSD. Leveraging TCG Opal 2.0 and Microsoft Encrypted Hard Drive hardware-based encryption, coupled with a new SSD administration dashboard for easier audit and compliance management,
Yahoo has purchased Blink, poaching the top talent behind the messaging app as the company continues to expand its reach within mobility. The team behind Blink posted an update Tuesday which revealed the deal, saying that Blink staff will be joining the tech giant. The mobile application allowed use
