Last week I <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/17/muku-lab-shuttr/">wrote about Shuttr</a>, the tiny Bluetooth remote control for smartphones that lets users take better self-portraits and group

After stepping out of a heated battle over the restaurant reservation space, Urbanspoon is taking a new approach to its review services — editorial content. Yelp had acquired reservation manage

We've written about <a target="_blank" href="http://www.unroll.me">Unroll.me</a>, a service that helps users manage their junk email and subscriptions, before — most recently when it was <a href="ht

A few years ago, I just didn't get it. I couldn't for the life of me understand how a company like Amazon could operate, let alone flourish. I spent the majority of my time following Apple, a company

Before Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million, he had some choice words for the ailing print news industry. In a wide-ranging interview with the German paper, Berliner-Zeitung, the new

Jeff Bezos, not Amazon, is dropping $250 million in cash to purchase the venerable Washington Post. But it’s not only the paper that Bezos is picking up for his quarter billion. As part of the p

On August 16, Steve Jobs biopic "<a target="_blank" href="http://jobsthefilm.com/">JOBS"</a> will hit theaters nationwide. The movie follows the story of a young Jobs deciding to start Apple, building

As YouTube networks go, there are some that are designed to attract talent from all over the spectrum, and then there are those which focus on specific verticals. With that in mind, Santa Monica, Cali

Mobile weather applications may be becoming <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.artlogic.com/2013/07/02/the-new-ui-design-playground/">the new playground for user interface designers</a>, but few can

Yes, you read that right. The Washington Post Company just <a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/katharine-weymouth-letter-to-post-readers/2013/08/05/ff6bd6e0-fe0e-11e2-9711-

The Snowden effect continued to roll today, with fresh revelations detailing how the pervasive surveillance of the National Security Agency (NSA) is in fact linked to domestic criminal prosecution. T

It's said that history is written by the victors -- or at least, by those who <a target="_blank" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=1GsOY-0OC7AC&lpg=PA171&dq=%22history%20is%20written%20by

OMGPOP almost got an extra life, but Zynga said 'game over'. Zynga just finalized plans to shut down OMGPOP, the game developer of Draw Something it acquired for $200 million in March 2012. But multi

Time is moving forward with its plans for a major redesign and relaunch of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.time.com">the Time.com website</a> this fall, announcing today that it has hired design s

A judge denied alleged Snapchat co-founder Reggie Brown's motion to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing Snapchat today. Quinn Emanuel will continue to represent the company as the case moves fo

It's almost a cliche to complain about the alienating effects of technology, but the Internet is an amazing resource for combating isolation. Sites and online forums mean people who suffer from stigma

If you build it, they will come. But what if you don’t know how to build it? That was the problem facing Mattan Griffel, founder of a new YC-backed startup called One Month Rails that is launchi

The U.K. government's latest tech-related initiative has political photo opportunity written all over it. Said scheme -- The GREAT Tech Awards -- is heavy on jingoism (yes that's GREAT as in Britain a

Yahoo continued its acquisition spree last week, picking up RockMelt’s team. The company’s product will be all but instantly axed. Yahoo’s senior vice president of mobile wrote the

Long before OMGPOP found its sudden (and rather fleeting) success as a mobile game developer with Draw Something, it began its life as an online game network at OMGPOP.com. After Zynga acquired OMGPOP