How Google Taught Itself Good Design
“I had just assumed that Google was hostile to designers,” says Matias Duarte one afternoon this summer. We're in a drab Google conference room at the Plex, and Duarte sports a red-and-yellow floral-...
N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
WASHINGTON — Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social connections that can identify their asso...
Apple's new licensing for apps gives it a huge enterprise advantage
One of the biggest iOS 7 advances for enterprise environments is Apple's new volume licensing model. The new model is a massive step forward and arguably is the most significant enterprise advance th...
Jason Calacanis touts power of AngelList Syndicates, boasts that his own now exceeds $300k
The Great Venture Capital Rotation — A couple of years ago, I was chatting with a guy named Naval, who had a site called AngelList. He had a fiery passion for helping founders and an outsider's chi...
Evernote teams up with Saleforce.com on collaboration app
Evernote wants to entrench its note-taking and sharing application more in businesses and hopes that a new Salesforce.com version will help it do so. Evernote for Salesforce, which debuts Friday at t...
Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt
This investigative report reveals that: — Shortly after the release of the first iPhone, Verizon asked BlackBerry to create a touchscreen “iPhone killer.” But the result was a flop, so Verizon turne...
In an App Store full of free alternatives, it's over for paid-up-front apps
Underscore Price Dynamics — Every iOS developer needs to listen to _DavidSmith's most recent podcast episode, Real World Price Dynamics with Lauren Smith (it's just 22 minutes).
iOS 7's visual effects are reportedly making some users dizzy or nauseated
Why iOS 7 is making some users sick — The introduction of fake zooms, parallax, sliding and other changes in Apple's new iPhone and iPad software has a very real effect on people with vestibular dis...