Thursday, December 31, 2015

The Best Apps For Finding Events

giphy Bored? These apps will tell you what to do tonight. From concerts and art gallery openings to street festivals and wine tastings, these apps know where the action is. Read More



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We’re Close

15751836930_315ffa1902_k All of the chatter about virtual reality shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Over the years, we’ve been forcing our way to get closer and closer to content of all types. For example, before anyone ever sat to watch a movie we’d hang out at a playhouse to watch a live show. The people who actually enjoyed sitting in the back were few and far between. They were probably there… Read More



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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

T-Mobile CEO Discusses Consolidation Rumors, His Predictions For Tech In 2016

John Legere As the latest year of the future folds into the next, the most bombastic/annoying/entertaining of CEOs sets his gaze on the technologies that will define the wireless space and the company he is at the helm of. Just as he did last year, T-Mobile CEO John Legere published his list of predictions for tech in 2016. Though most of his predictions won’t surprise anyone (they’re pretty… Read More



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AT&T Snaps Up Assets, Talent From Carrier iQ, Phone Monitoring Startup Goes Offline

magnifying glass, explore Remember Carrier iQ? In the years before Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseen monitoring of everything that you do on a smartphone on behalf of carriers and phone makers — allegedly in the name of better user experience. Now the company appears to be no longer. TechCrunch has confirmed that AT&T has… Read More



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DJ Khaled On Technology, Entrepreneurship And Snapchatting His Keys To Success

khaled-snapchat If I told you that the hottest person on social media right now is a rap producer telling fans that eating egg whites and drinking a gallon of water a day is the key to success, would you believe me? What if I told you that the same person regularly has over 2 million people view each of his snapchats, with the first 500,000 people watching it within 5 minutes of him posting? Read More



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Slack’s New TV Commercial Is Adorable And Effective

Screen Shot 2015-12-30 at 10.41.22 AM If you’re in the tech world, then you know exactly what Slack is and does. As you eke outside of our little techosphere, however, you might get some puzzled faces when you talk about your favorite work communication tool. Read More



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Credit Karma Acquires Innovative Mobile Notifications Startup Snowball

creditkarma-bar Credit and finance management platform Credit Karma, known best as the startup that offers free, no-strings-attached credit scores, has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired the makers of the mobile application Snowball, with plans to leverage the team’s expertise in mobile notifications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the Snowball app will be pulled from… Read More



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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Flaming Wreckage Of Clinkle Rebuilds As A Referral Service

Clinkle Employees Quit Clinkle imploded after employees quit en masse in May, protesting how its young CEO Lucas Duplan was mismanaging the $30 million-funded payments startup. But Duplan won’t quit. TechCrunch has attained emails showing Duplan is pivoting Clinkle away from its former ultrasound payments and loyalty debit card products. Now Clinkle is an SDK called Treats that other apps can integrate to… Read More



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Monday, December 28, 2015

Report: Apple Devices, “Phablets” Dominate Holiday Sales

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - SEPTEMBER 29: An attendee looks at a display of new Google devices during a Google media event on September 29, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Google unveiled its 2015 smartphone lineup, the Nexus 5x and Nexus 6P, the new Chromecast and new Android 6.0 Marshmallow software features. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) More consumers were unwrapping new “phablet” devices this holiday season, according to a report out this afternoon from Flurry. The big-screened form factor, whose name is a mashup of “phone” and “tablet,” accounted for 27 percent of a new device activations in the week leading up to Christmas – a doubling of its share from the year prior, and up from… Read More



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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Facebook Confronts The Free Internet Neutrality Dilemma

Free Basics The subject of contention is Free Basics, Facebook and Internet.org‘s app that offers free data access but only to a limited section of the Internet. Free Basics is available in roughly 35 countries through Facebook’s partnerships with mobile carriers who see it as a way to persuade people to buy data plans. But Facebook’s control over the technical guidelines for what… Read More



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Saturday, December 26, 2015

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Review

If you want to buy a Kindle Paperwhite designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books; then look no further. We have put together an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Review to demonstrate that Amazon has once again proven to the world, that it is at the top of the game when it comes to designing latest technology e-book devices. They have released a third version of the Kindle Paperwhite ereader, which comes with improved features and benefits such as good layout and additional storage.I have used the previous versions for quite some time now, but I bet this latest Kindle

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Samsung And Oculus Team Up With LeBron James For Virtual Reality Journey

Screen Shot 2015-12-26 at 4.12.42 PM On Christmas day, the world was given a gift by Oculus, Samsung, UNINTERRUPTED, and LeBron James during the Warriors and Cavaliers game. The two companies who paired up for Samsung’s Gear VR, a hot ticket item this holiday season, launched a LeBron James experience in VR called “Striving for Greatness” with a fantastically iconic commercial. When the commercial came on,… Read More



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Friday, December 25, 2015

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Review

I have been using one of these tablets for the last few months. The size of it means I can just throw it in my bag, without it taking up too much space. Amazon tablets are defiantly low priced, but other than a handy size and an attractive price, is it any good? Find out in my Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Review, as we put it through it’s paces.  Kindle Fire HD 7 Features Ample Storage with 16GB or 32GB options Great quality, 7 inch HD ScreenAmazon Prime - streaming video serviceHD Camera Kindle Unlimited - Unlimited eBook rental

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Twitter’s Fiscal 2015: Up, Flat, And Down

twitter-down Twitter did not have a lovely 2015. The world-famous social company saw its revenue rise, its usage flatten, and its share price fall. The company failed to change the arc of its own narrative during the year: Strong financial performance, but continued failure to grow its user base, the latter of which the market appears to weight more strongly. It brought in a new CEO to turn things… Read More



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Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil Talks Video In 2016

periscope-android 2015 was a big year for video — especially when it came to user-generated video. Now there are services like Periscope and Meerkat, which are enabling users to broadcast the world around them live. We also saw YouTube launch a subscription model. And, according to Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil — who led the firm’s investment in Twitch — we’re… Read More



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