Google to launch Android developer SDK for wearable tech in 2 weeks
At SXSW today, Sundar Pichai, Google's SVP of Android, Apps and Chrome, announced that the company will soon release an Android developer SDK specifically designed for use with wearable devices.
Hackers Hit Mt. Gox Exchange's CEO, Claim To Publish Evidence Of Fraud
The Bitcoin community has been angrily pressing for details on what the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has described as a massive hacker attack that stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of its users'...
Popcorn Time: an open source, cross platform app for simply streaming movie torrents
Popcorn Time: Open Source Torrent Streaming Netflix For Pirates — Over the years BitTorrent has become fairly mainstream, with hundreds of millions of people using torrent clients to download the la...
Neil Young's high-fidelity iPod competitor will cost $399
The age of the iPod might be over, but music artist Neil Young doesn't believe portable media players are dead. On March 15th, he'll offer pre-orders on Kickstarter for the PonoPlayer, a $399 triangu...
Tencent takes a 15% stake in Chinese online retailer JD.com to take on Alibaba
Chinese Internet giant Tencent, which is best known for its wildly popular messaging service WeChat (known as Weixin in China), has officially combined its e-commerce operations with online retailer J...
How Aaron Levie and his childhood friends built Box into a $2 billion business, without stabbing each other in the back
“Water,” says Aaron Levie. It's 11:00 AM on a bright October morning in Silicon Valley. Levie, the bright-eyed young chief executive with patches of grey hair …
SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son Pushes Sprint to Shed ‘Loser’ Mindset in Mobile-Phone Industry
SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son Pushes Sprint to Shed ‘Loser’ Mindset in Mobile-Phone Industry — At a meeting with Sprint Corp. executives in October, the chief executive …
In the wake of Zite's sale, it's time to take a more skeptical look at news personalization by algorithms
The smarter news apps are, the dumber they get — A curiously hot category with little to show for it — In August 2011, CNN bought the newsreading app Zite for $20 million.
Vendors using Instagram as an unofficial e-commerce platform worry it will become official
On Instagram, a Bazaar Where You Least Expect It — Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is my favorite place to skim through pictures of friends.
Apple's new product process is a giant checklist covering all steps in product's life cycle
Any company can copy the keystone of Apple's design process — It turns out that the key to Apple's creativity, speed, and adaptability is, on its surface, the exact opposite of the kind of free-whee...
Young stars of Vine turn comedy into a business with sponsored videos and trips
Meet The Stars Of Vine: These Kids Have Millions Of Followers And Make Eye-Popping Amounts Of Money — For 16 year-old Lauren Giraldo, $2,000 isn't hard to come by. — All she has to do is press …
Tomorrow's Apps Will Come From Brilliant (And Risky) Bitcoin Code
For many, bitcoin — the distributed, worldwide, decentralized crypto-currency — is all about money. Or, as recent events show, about who invented it. Yet the actual innovation brought about by bitco...