“Techi Two Takes” combines the best of both worlds: sourced content from trusted sites and our unique perspective. It’s where curated information meets insightful commentary, giving readers a complete, balanced view of the topic at hand.
The Federal Communications Commission is close to completing a list of rules for cellphone unlocking with US carriers, according to a report. The new rules would govern how a carrier advises a...
Care.com is going public. The company, which connects caregivers with people who need care, aims to raise $80 million in its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. Care.com, a Waltham, Mass.-based caregiver...
Normally, a homeless person would have life a whole lot tougher than someone with a job and can get three square meals a day, without having to worry about whether...
Google has already made a few concessions to please European antitrust regulators worried about fair placements in web search results. However, Microsoft doesn't feel those sacrifices are good enough, and it claims...
A report issued by the advocacy group Fair Labor Association has praised Foxconn for continuing to improve working conditions. An audit reportedly found that three of Foxconn's factories in Longhua,...
Film may be going the way of the dodo, but not in China where it's gaining popularity for use in analog X-ray machines in many of the nation's estimated 20,000 hospitals...
Dell has established a $300 million venture fund that will promote the development of technologies important to the company’s product portfolio. The fund will invest in early-growth companies in storage, cloud...
Twitter is reportedly experimenting with expanded redesigns of user profiles which will allow users to do things such as highlight certain content over others, like their most popular tweets. As is, Twitter...
Instagram has announced a new private messaging feature called Instagram Direct, which will allow users to send a photo or video privately to up to fifteen followers. The direct messaging feature...
Even though Waze is now under Google's umbrella, it's continued to operate as if nothing has changed, other than the fact that it now has a billion dollars. To that end, it's just rolled out...
Valve's Linux-based Steam Machines gaming console starts shipping today to a few beta testers. SteamOS, it's Linux for gamers, is scheduled to be released to everyone at the same time....
The deal tells Truecaller users if the person calling them has a Twitter account, and even allows limited Twitter functionality from within the Truecaller smartphone client. Truecaller, a Swedish company...
Microsoft is ripping a page out of its own playbook with the launch of what it calls the, “Cloud OS” network of some 30 partners, cloud providers, telcos, hosting companies,...
A new app called Friendshippr is a courier-by-friends service that uses Facebook to map out when and where friends are travelling to so you can ‘crowdship’ items through them. If you travel...
Spire Technologies, a big data firm based in Bangalore, has closed $8 million in a Series A funding round from a yet-unnamed institutional investor. The new capital will be used...
Mass-produced mobile devices with flexible, and eventually foldable, screens may be as far as a decade away, according to Max McDaniel, chief marketing officer of Applied Materials's display business group....
Michelle Lee, who until July was running Google the firm's patent strategy, has been named the deputy director of the US Patent and Trademark Office, and will run the agency...
AT&T's "GigaPower" all-fiber network has launched in parts of Austin, Texas, with a price of $70 per month for download speeds of 300Mbp. The $70 price is only available if you...
Apple's U.S. Patent No. 8,603,574 for a "Curved touch sensor" details a manufacturing technique that produces accurate, curved touch surfaces without deficiencies caused by substrate warping or deformation. The patent's claims specifically...
Shopify has made its name and accumulated 80,000 businesses as customers by providing a simplified ecommerce and inventory system, but now it’s moving offline. The company is expected to announce...
