Moto 360 listing at Best Buy reveals features and specs, priced at $249
Moto 360 Shows Up at Best Buy for $249, Outs List of Features — We are expecting to get official Moto 360 launch details when Motorola hosts press at a September 4 event in Chicago, but Best Buy may...
In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty
Just after 4 a.m. on a recent Friday, while most of the neighbors in her leafy Boston suburb were still asleep, Jennifer Guidry was in the driveway of her rental apartment, her blond hair pulled back ...
Twitter's latest experiment turns favorites into retweets (and it's annoying lots of people)
Twitter is back in experimental mode, but its latest test is annoying people. A sizable number of users are seeing tweets favorited by others in their timeline, just like retweets.
Bezos-owned Washington Post now inserting gross Amazon affiliate links into news articles
There's something creepy in this Washington Post piece about Penguin's new “adult” cover for the 50th anniversary edition of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Well, something else creepy, beyond t...
Xiaomi launches MIUI 6, makes Android look more like iOS 7
Chinese device maker Xiaomi offers phones, tablets, smart TVs and other products that are known for their high quality and low prices. But Xiaomi is also known for its MIUI software which gives Googl...
Inside ATAP, Google's mobile development group led by former DARPA director Regina Dugan
Google goes DARPA — Regina Dugan loves to tell the story of how she got her current job. It was a little over two years ago, and Dugan, a mechanical engineer by training and an expert in counterter...
We lack the data needed to show whether venture capital is performing as an asset class
VCs suck (but there's a way you could prove me wrong) — There has been a bunch of Twitter conversation this week about venture capital economics and performance, stemming from an HBR post titled Ven...
Email is not dying; it's an adaptable, decentralized, open platform that's being unbundled
Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet — The gentle, dependable workhorse that everyone relies on and nobody owns — All these people are trying to kill email.
Ad-supported web led to targeting and surveillance as a default; let's try again, with fees for service
The Internet's Original Sin — Ron Carlson's short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths.
With free licensing and new device makers on board, it's too early to write off Windows Phone
It's Too Early to Write Off the Third Smartphone Ecosystem — Thanks to a single smart phone quarterly market share report from IDC, many are suddenly writing off Windows Phone and declaring …
Max Levchin on Affirm, his online payments and lending startup, and his focus on data
The Gigaom Interview: Max Levchin on data, sensors and building the future of finance — Part of the original “PayPal Mafia” and also formerly of Slide, Max Levchin has made a return …
History of podcasting: from RSS audio enclosures to mainstream acceptance and patent lawsuits
10 years of podcasting: Code, comedy, and patent lawsuits — A decade ago today—August 13, 2004—former MTV VJ Adam Curry spoke these words, recorded in his car in rural Belgium while driving to the N...