TSA blocking uncharged mobile devices from flights at some international airports
International travelers will have to make sure they charge all their devices before boarding their flights. In an announcement made Sunday, the TSA now plans on blocking flyers with uncharged phones ...
Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
At the annual KV CEO Summit, we were fortunate to have both Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit down to discuss a wide range of topics including the acquisition that never was (although not for lack of try...
Google sets aside as much as $500M to expand Shopping Express nationwide, fend off Amazon
Inside Google's Big Plan to Race Amazon to Your Door — Google is the undisputed king of search in all but one lucrative and vital category: Product searches. — Over the past decade …
To succeed at investing when you're not a YC or Sequoia, focus on a single sector
Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing — I bet on a horse called the Bottle of Smoke — I have decided to angel invest. Any advice? — I spent some time decades ago in the horse-racing worl...
$1,099 iMac review: lose 50% of your performance to save 18% of the money
Technically, this is the $1,299 iMac, not that you'd be able to tell the difference. — Apple's new $1,099 iMac will undoubtedly be a popular computer. People in the know who want the most computing...
Fab's CEO, Still Standing, Is Plotting The Next 20 Years
Forget what you know about the old Fab. This time CEO Jason Goldberg thinks he's finally got it right with a new furniture site called Hem. — Investors can be forgiven for demanding Goldberg's head...
Android L and iOS 8 mark the first true mobile platform philosophy divergence since the iPhone
The next phase of smartphones — It's now 7 years since the iPhone reset the phone business, and indeed the entire computing and internet businesses. But it was pretty clear …
With Revenue Roaring, Twitter's Advertising Team Is Untouched by Turmoil
Twitter's top executive ranks have been transformed in the past year, from its general counsel to, most recently, its chief financial officer. — Many of the executives have left or been pushed out a...
A Google Employee Says Google Employees Are Too Confident, And Too Isolated From The Real World
A Google employee has written a post about what it's like working at the company. — At his blog, Apenwarr, Google Fiber engineer Avery Pennarun is largely complimentary of Google and its employees …
Amazon's Fire Phone is an experiment to mitigate mobile's threat to traditional e-commerce
The Real Meaning of the Fire Phone — People have been asking my opinion of the new Amazon Fire Phone, but I've had a lot of trouble answering. My first reaction was overwhelmingly blah.