Apple Watch event predictions: 42mm costlier than 38mm, steel models $749+, Edition models $7.5K+, no upgradability, Photos demoed, 12" MacBook Air revealed
One Last Spitball on Stainless Steel Apple Watch Pricing — Here are my “final guesses” from last night (for 38/42mm models):
Square, now shifting its focus to small businesses, plans to introduce instant deposits and disputed purchase protection on Monday
The Payment Start-Up Square Expands Its Reach Into Small Businesses — What is Square? — The six-year-old payments start-up began by offering small …
With abusive posts still rampant on Yik Yak, some college campuses are taking steps to ban the service
Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn't Telling — During a brief recess in an honors course at Eastern Michigan University last fall, a teaching assistant approached the class's three fe...
Ex-VP of online marketing Sean Percival shares MySpace lessons: lack of focus after News Corp takeover, deceptive ads, failure to build on unique music deal
MySpace: what went wrong - by its former VP of online marketing — Sean Percival on corporate interference, Punch The Monkey …
Feelreal shows off mask that attaches to VR headsets to simulate weather and provide scents
Smellovision masks are here, and they're basically implements of torture — Virtual reality is great, but it's... sometimes difficult to stomach, as evidenced by the fact that a device not making peo...
Review: good build quality and near-stock load of Android 5.0.2 make the Moto E the best phone you can get for $150
Review: The new Moto E is the most phone you can get for $150 — The first Moto E cut too many corners, but this one can hold its own. — The new Moto E with LTE.
With Emoji a product of Japanese origins, America needs new Emoji symbols that reflect its own culture
Dispatch: America Needs Its Own Emojis — America Needs Its Own Emojis — There's so much we can't express because the symbols don't exist: no Vulcan salute, no pickup truck, no bacon. Tweets: @adrj...
PayPal to pay $60m for Israeli security startup CyActive
Summary:CyActive's predictive cyber-defense system is the US firm's second acquisition in Israel. — In what will be its second acquisition in Israel, PayPal is set to acquire Israeli cybersecurity f...
Confirmed: SugarCRM Buys Mobile Startup Stitch, Shuts It Down
SugarCRM, a CRM and open source rival to Salesforce, has made an acquisition to help the company raise its game on the mobile front. It has acquired and is shutting down Stitch, a startup co-founded ...
Transport for London is testing a Bluetooth beacon system that helps blind navigate the Tube
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Mexican drug gangs are believed to be abducting IT specialists to build communication networks
The Drug Cartels' IT Guy — The most recent photo of Felipe García, an architect, taken just weeks before he disappeared in Northeastern Mexico in March 2013. He was wearing this shirt the day he va...
Nielsen brain study shows close correlation between the volume of tweets about a TV show and neurological engagement during viewing
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How one man had most of his online life compromised and $3000 taken after his email was hacked
Anatomy of a Hack … In the early morning hours of October 21st, 2014, Partap Davis lost $3,000. He had gone to sleep just after 2AM in his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home after a late night playing Wor...
Epic Games' Tim Sweeney on how Unreal Engine 4 may soon power film and architecture
Why video game engines may power the future of film and architecture — The original developer of Gears of War has an ambitious plan for the future of everything. — Epic Games, the company best …
Hands-on with the final version of Valve's Steam controller that will ship in November
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Hands-on with Canonical's Ubuntu mobile OS on new phones by BQ and Meizu
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WhatsApp bans users of third-party clients until they uninstall offending apps
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Behind Yahoo's critical Alibaba investment and Marissa Mayer's plan to spin it into a separate company
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Behind freemium mobile game Crossy Road, which earned $10M and hit 50M downloads in 3 months
Dave Tach / Polygon : Tweets: @lessien , @cdixon and @jalada Tweets: @lessien : Looks like Crossy Road is doing pretty well: http://www.polygon.com/... Chris Dixon / @cdixon : “The story of Crossy Ro...
Behind the rise of bug bounties and startups like HackerOne that help provide them
Ben Popper / The Verge : Tweets: @benpopper and @benpopper Tweets: Ben Popper / @benpopper : I met an Indian teen who's paying for college by finding software bugs at Google, AT&T, and Paypal http://...
Behind Machine Zone's Game of War, the mobile game earning over $1M per day from in-app purchases
Robert Kolker / Bloomberg Business : Tweets: @chrisbrogan Tweets: Chris Brogan / @chrisbrogan : Game of War grosses $1mil a DAY and we still talk about the box office? - http://www.bloomberg.com/...
Inside the life of Minecraft creator Markus Persson after the $2.5B sale to Microsoft
Sundays are for exploring the world via … Tweets: Markus Persson / @notch : There are good journalists out there, presumably. But a lot of them don't give a flying duck about the truth, they just wann...
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