Jason Kincaid

Science Exchange, a Y Combinator-backed company that’s helping to streamline the way scientific research is conducted, has raised $1.5 million from an elite group of investors. The round was led…

Facebook is holding a special event this afternoon at its office in New York City. The event is a little strange, in that Facebook only sent invites out this morning…

Color is almost ready for round two. The company — which famously raised $41 million and launched last spring only to watch its initial product bomb (which in turn spurred…

Academia.edu, a social network for researchers, is having a good year. In 2011 it’s tripled its total registered userbase to 800,000, and today it’s announcing some major news that ensures…

Hot music startup Spotify is holding a special event in New York City this morning, where it’s going to unveil what it’s calling a “New Direction” for the service. Spotify hasn’t…

There were a lot of sales going on this past Cyber Monday, as many sites across the web slashed prices in a celebration of consumerism. But few sites had the…

If apps like Instagram have proven one thing, it’s that photos and mobile phones are an extremely popular (and powerful) combination. And photos on the web are obviously immensely popular as well. A year…

Google Maps for Android is fantastic. Between its free GPS Navigation feature, speedy downloads thanks to vector-based maps, and offline caching, the app is leagues ahead of the Maps app…

Yes, really. General Cannabis Inc. has just announced that it’s acquired Marijuana.com. The company didn’t disclose the details of the deal, but we’ve confirmed that the acquisition price was $4.20…

Google has kicked off the week by posting a six-minute video clip that gives a fast-paced overview of its history as a search company, from its earliest days of Larry…

It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of flipping on a television and seeing a commercial for anything Google-related seemed totally implausible. For many years, the company seemed to…

Yesterday, Bloomberg published a story stating that Apple had made a major (and, frankly, somewhat surprising) change to its App Store policies: it was going to begin allowing game publishers…

Since Google CEO Larry Page took the helm this past spring, one of the company’s most visible initiatives has been to trim and shut down its products that haven’t taken…

At its f8 developer event in September, Facebook unveiled one of the biggest reinventions of its user profiles since the site first launched: Timelines. Activate the feature, which is still…

If you’re running a political campaign, a charity, or any other group where keeping in touch with community members — and/or delegating tasks to them — is critical, then you’ll probably be…

Turns out you don’t have to charge an arm and a leg for SMS messages to make money off of texting. One startup that’s proven this is Pinger, the company…

We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and it’s one of our most colorful yet: Eventbrite. The company, which offers a variety of ways to coordinate events and…

Of all the cool things going on in technology, one of my favorites is 3D printing. It’s got such a futuristic quality to it: input a digital schematic, and you…

One seemingly minor change that Google has introduced in the new version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, could actually have just as large an impact on the company as the…

The Galaxy Nexus is big. There, we’ve got that out of the way (don’t worry, we’ll revisit it shortly). Now onto the more important news: Ice Cream Sandwich, the new…

Today at its ‘These Go To 11’ special event, Google just announced that Google Music — which launched over the summer in a private, invite-only beta —  is open to everyone.…

Congress is in the process of kneecapping the web as we know it with a House bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (a similar bill, called the Protect IP…

Many people think of television antennas as relics of the past: bunny ears and ugly wires, black and white, and fuzzy snow pictures. So, instead, we’re happy to plop down upwards…

The web community is currently in an apprehensive uproar over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which threatens to create an Internet blacklist that operates at the DNS level in…

Based on official blog posts that were apparently posted early (and then pulled), developers will soon be able to access some key features of Google+ via the service’s API: photos…

Know exactly what you’re searching for on Google? It’s now a bit easier to find it. Google is constantly doing things to automatically tweak your queries — it’ll swap in…

The code for the latest version of Android — 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich — is now in the wild. According to a post from Jean-Baptiste M. “JBQ”…

Last week, we got an invite for a mysterious Google press event that’s being held in Los Angeles this Wednesday. The event didn’t give any details as to what we…

Google has long been known as a company that favors algorithms and automation — which scale nicely to millions of people — over human-powered services, which don’t. That works well enough…

San Francisco-based startup Giftly is looking to help you kill two birds with one stone: quickly give your friends and family gift cards via the web, and introduce them to…