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Pinterest Debuts A “Gifts Feed” Featuring Only Things You Can Buy
2:36 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
Pinterest publicly introduced a new Gifts feed on Wednesday that only displays “Product Pins” – pins that are enhanced with additional details, including pricing, availability and where the item can be…
Media & Entertainment
Plex Adds Queues, Mobile Camera Upload, Chromecast Access For All And Streaming DVR
2:14 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
Streaming media platform Plex has a big update for users today, which includes opening up Chromecast support to all users, after debuting it as a feature for paid Plex Pass…
The NSA Responds To Allegations It Impersonated Facebook And Infected PCs With Malware
2:11 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
The NSA has responded to allegations that surfaced yesterday indicating that the agency pretended to be Facebook to infect computers with malware. The revelation, built of course on top of…
Keen On… Iridescent: How Girls Are 3 Years Ahead Of Everyone Else In The Race To Innovate
2:08 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
Tara Chklovski is the founder and CEO of Iridescent, a remarkable Google funded non profit dedicated to encouraging young women’s innovation in technology.
I know that the Ephemeralization of 2014 is generally traced to some privacy potion of Edward Snowden, NSA, and Target credit card leaks, but few seem willing to track its…
After Raising More Money And Launching Its Product In Beta, Clinkle COO McCarthy Steps Down
2:00 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
It’s never a dull moment when it comes to Clinkle, the mobile payments startup which hopes to one day replace your wallet. The young company’s roller coaster ride continues with…
Creator Of The Power Squid, Chris Hawker, Hits The Crowdfunding Trail With Quickey
1:36 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
Long-time readers will recall one of my favorite series, The Song Of The Power Squid, a six-parter by inventor Chris Hawker. Written at the cusp of the hardware startup revolution,…
Here’s What An iPhone 6 With A Curved Display Might Look Like
1:34 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
It’s that time of year again, friends. It’s been a few months since the last iPhone was released, which means everyone is trying to figure out what the next iPhone…
Startups
Amid Bullying & Threats Of Violence, Anonymous Social App Yik Yak Shuts Off Access To U.S. Middle & High School Students
1:03 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
Anonymous communication platforms and the pre-teen-to-teenage brain are two things that don’t mix all that well. Just look at Ask.fm, for example, the social Q&A platform whose shield of anonymity…
T-Mobile Plans To Bump Their Entire Network To 4G By 2015
12:53 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
I’ve gotta give it to T-Mobile: they’re really doing a good job at this whole “Lets stop being awful” thing they’ve been up to lately. If you’ve been thinking about…
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Inside The IPO Of Candy Crush Maker King Digital
12:40 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
This post is not investment advice. Instead, it’s a meditation on the dynamics of the mobile gaming market in the context of an IPO which grants us raw data into…
Media & Entertainment
Zuckerberg Called Obama To “Express Frustration” Over Spying’s Threat To Internet Security
12:37 pm PDT • March 13, 2014
Facebook Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg made a rare posting on his Facebook page to assure his followers that he takes government threats to Internet security seriously. “I’ve called President Obama to…
Media & Entertainment
SocialPoint Gaming Studio Announces Four New Social Strategy Titles After Topping 50 Million MAUs
11:44 am PDT • March 13, 2014
SocialPoint, Spain’s largest mobile gaming studio, has today announced plans to release four new games to market. Unlike the company’s previous “breeding games,” wherein the user would play to create…
Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain Talks Cloud Storage, Box’s IPO, And Going Head-to-Head With Microsoft
11:35 am PDT • March 13, 2014
Egnyte, a company that sells a hybrid file storage product that employs both cloud and local storage, raised $29.5 million last December. The enterprise cloud storage market is among the best…
Interviewly Puts All The Best Reddit AMAs In One Easy To Read Place
11:15 am PDT • March 13, 2014
A number of notable people have invited the masses on Reddit to ask them any question they want, or “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” — from President Barack Obama, to Bill…
SupaPass Lets Any Musician Run A Subscription Fan Club, Just Like Gaga
10:51 am PDT • March 13, 2014
As the sole European company shortlisted for SXSW’s HATCH pitch competition this week, we thought we’d take a look at SupaPass. (For those who don’t know it, HATCH pitch is…
Target Knew About Credit Card Hack For 12 Days Before Reacting
10:37 am PDT • March 13, 2014
In a scathing bit of reportage from Bloomberg Businessweek we discover that retailer Target had received word that its security system had been compromised nearly two weeks before it moved…
Google Drive Gets A Big Price Drop, 100GB Now Costs $1.99 A Month
10:34 am PDT • March 13, 2014
Google today significantly dropped the prices for its Google Drive online storage service. The first 15GB of storage remain free, but 100GB now costs just $1.99 per month instead of…
Autodesk Launches Instant Mobile Messaging App For Enterprise Users
10:30 am PDT • March 13, 2014
Creation and collaboration software maker Autodesk is stepping outside of its usual enterprise-grade software world and dipping its toes into consumer — or at least consumerized — world of mobile…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook Launches Its 15-Second, Auto-Playing Video Ads
10:29 am PDT • March 13, 2014
Facebook just announced that it’s starting to run the video ads that it started testing last fall. In a company blog post, Facebook says it’s working with “a select group…
