January 27, 2014
Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo Is Reborn As Mobile News App Inside
Jason Calacanis is getting back into the news business with a new app called Inside, which highlights and summarizes the top news stories. Although Calacanis has been involved in several…
Global Smartphone Shipments Top 1 Billion For The First Time Thanks To Cheap Android Devices, Says IDC
The global smartphone market shipped one billion units in a single year for the first time, with Samsung as the leading vendor, according to a new report by research firm…
Strategy Analytics: 1.7B Mobile Handsets Shipped In 2013, 990M Of Them Smartphones
If you needed an indicator of just how much the mobile market today is a smartphone market, look no further than the figures put out early today by Strategy Analytics.…
Tom Perkins Presents GOP Boilerplate As Solution To Wage Inequality
Tom Perkins compared what he sees as a “progressive war on the American one percent” to Kristallnacht, the series of coordinated attacks against the Jews during Nazi Germany. Today on…
Twitter Mobile Update Bubbles Trending Events To The Top Of The Timeline, Adds Photo Editing
Twitter has just released an update to its Android client (coming soon to iOS) that brings new photo editing tools to the service, which are likely meant to make it…
Apple’s Mixed 1st Quarter In Charts
Apple’s December quarter was a mixed bag. If you just read the numbers, revenue has never been so high thanks to continued growth in iPhone and iPad sales. But analysts…
Flickr’s Upside-Down “About” Page Was Actually A Clever Job Ad
Some Flickr users noticed the company’s “About” page was upside-down yesterday. Yes, literally upside-down. And yes, we checked, it wasn’t just us. As it turns out, yes, Flickr’s upside-downness was…
CEO Tim Cook Says Touch ID Was Part Of Apple’s Thinking Around Mobile Payments
Apple CEO Tim Cook actually discussed mobile payments directly on the company’s earnings call today, saying that it’s an area that has “intrigued” the company and that mobile payments actually…
Nintendo May Go Mobile This Year (But Not In The Way We’d All Like)
OMG! Mario on iOS! Not! According to a brief in Japan’s Nikkei (translated by TC writer Serkan Toto), Nintendo will announce plans to use Android and iOS as marketing vehicles,…
Apple Says International Took 64% Of Revenues In Q1, Led By Growth In China And Japan
Apple CEO Tim Cook today admitted that in its home market of North America, “we did not do as well…our business contracted year over year.” But to counterbalance that, the…
Apple Pays Out $2 Billion To Developers In Q1 2014
One number in Apple’s results indicates significant year over year growth, and it’s a number that’s vital to the continued success of the platform – the company announced that it…
Despite Multi-Year MSFT Surface Deal, Nearly All NFL Teams Use iPads As Playbooks, Says Apple
On today’s Q1 earnings call, Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer bragged that “nearly all NFL teams use iPads as playbooks.” This wouldn’t necessarily be interesting, except for the fact that Microsoft…
Dark Sky Is Ready To Be The Default Weather App On Your iPhone’s Homescreen
Dark Sky, easily one of the better weather applications on iOS, rolled out an update today that expands its focus beyond rain predictions to become a more comprehensive weather app…
Five Months After Launch, iOS 7 Has Been Installed On 80% Of Compatible Devices
With one of Androids’ few shortcomings being the uncertainty that any given device might get the next big update, Apple just loves to mention their iOS update numbers. During their…
Despite Record Sales Quarter, Apple’s iPhone 5c Likely Wasn’t Key To Growth
Apple’s iPhone sales for Q1 2014 have broken the company’s previous record, and they also mark the company’s ability to ship as many smartphones as Samsung, which was previously the…
Police in Roswell, NM are now using 3D scanners to virtually map crime scenes, allowing investigators, jurors, judges, and lawyers to inspect the environment from any angle with a 3D,…
Department Of Justice Will Allow Big Tech Companies To Disclose Detailed Numbers Of Surveillance Requests
Apple today released more details on the requests it receives from government surveillance agencies after the Department Of Justice releaxed limits on disclosures. Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, and LinkedIn…
Apple’s 51M iPhones, 26M iPads And 4.8M Macs In Q1 2014 Set A Record, But Growth Slows
Analysts had predicted that Apple would have a strong day with hardware this quarter, anticipating between 54 and 56 million iPhones shipped according to Fortune, as well as around 25…
Apple’s Mixed Q1 2014 With $57.6B Revenue, $13.1B Profit And $14.50 EPS
Apple has just released its fiscal Q1 2014 earnings, reporting $57.6 billion in revenue, $13.1 billion in net profit representing $14.50 per share. Compared to the year-ago quarter, it corresponds…
Happy Birthday, D&D
On January 26, 1974 the world changed. A panoply of creatures popped into existence – Owlbears lumbered out of the woods while Bullettes snuffled out of caves, blinking in the…
NSA May Want Mobile Data, Including Info From Angry Birds And Maps
The National Security Agency reportedly has a love affair with mobile app data, collecting personal information from Google Maps and Angry Birds, referring to the program as a “Golden Nugget”.…
Y Combinator-Backed Cambly Offers On-Demand Access To Language Tutors On iPad, iPhone, And Desktop
There’s no better way to learn a language than by talking with a native speaker. But let’s face it — it’s not always easy to find or connect with those…
Google Is Making A Land Grab For The Internet Of Things
Before this past December, when Google acquired seven robotics companies back-to-back, the company’s ambitions in the “Internet of Things” space looked as detailed as a freshly started jigsaw puzzle. But…
AdColony Says Its Mobile Video Ads Have Reached A $100M Revenue Run Rate
AdColony says its mobile video ad platform has reached a $100 million gross revenue run rate. That’s a number ad-tech startups seem to enjoy bragging about — RadiumOne, AdRoll, and…
Google Updates Chrome For iOS With Built-In Data Compression, New Tab Page And Translation Support
Google today released the new version of Chrome for iOS. With this update, it is bringing a number of features that were previously only available in the Android app to…
Vint, The P2P Marketplace For Training And Fitness Instructors, Raises $1.8M Led By Creandum
Hoping to pick up the slack left by people who want to get fit but find gym memberships too expensive or unproductive, Sweden’s Vint is an iPhone app that lets…
Pinterest Rolls Out A “Sneak Peek” Of Its New, Interest-Based Homepage
Last week, we spotted what appeared to be a test of a personalized Pinterest homepage in the wild. At the time, the company declined to provide further comment on the…
As Software Eats The World, Agile Tool Provider Hansoft Raises $8.4M To Steal Competitors’ Lunch
Hansoft provides tools to help teams collaborate and manage the development of products and services using “Agile software development” — the umbrella term for a group of software development methods…
Google’s Defamation Case In India Underscores Challenges In Ensuring Internet Freedom
India’s Supreme Court has deferred hearing of a defamation case against the local unit of Google on whether it’s liable for offensive comments posted by a user on Blogspot.com. The…
Big Data-Driven Credit And Loans Startup Kreditech Raises $15M In Debt To Expand
Established retail banks around the world have bit of a problem. There are a whole bunch of new banking players that want to disrupt parts of their business, such as…
