January 8, 2015

Last year saw Uber challenged with regulator and government battles across North America, Europe and Asia, and today China took its first step to cracking down on its fast growing…

Uber has announced plans to cut prices in 48 of its “newer” cities in U.S. but has guaranteed that drivers will earn more money.

Facebook has a acquired QuickFire Networks, a TC Disrupt 2014 Battlefield contestant that built a custom hardware and software platform for reducing video file sizes and upload times. The Wall Street…

Breathometer created a platform it could use to measure lots of different things through their breath. With that foundation, the company has announced its next product — a device called…

CES kind of feels like my own personal hell, in that it takes the coolest technology in the world and surrounds it with marketing gimmickry. I noticed this the most…

The competition was very fierce for the second edition of our Hardware Battlefield. 15 shockingly good hardware startups competed to win the coveted Metal Man trophy. These companies had a…

Edward Snowden says in a new interview with NOVA Next that the U.S. government wrongly promotes cyber offense strategies at the expense of weakening the system and leaving it open to cyber attacks from…

AuroraTek CEO William Alek told me that the real star of the booth was a very special electrical transformer that could output more power than you put it. That goes…

If you’re sick of lugging around that bulky white cable and charger for your MacBook, Zolt could lighten your load. The $99 miniature 3 inch x 1.3 inch x 1.3…

Code.org’s Code Studio will be training teachers in 60 different school districts in the U.S., including the 7 largest school districts with the highest diversity in the country. The New York…

If you’re like me, your face is a pock-marked mess, oozing with pus and fluids and endlessly painful. But there is hope for people like me. There is Oku. This…

The typewriter is basically relegated to septuagenarians and hipsters at this point, but the Hemingwrite aims to make it a little more broadly appealing with cloud-based document storage and syncing,…

Apple Design Award-winning slacker-productivity app Finish is announcing its biggest update in a year today with the release of version 3.0 on the App Store.

A mobile application called Nearby Live, which began its life as a social app for Windows Mobile users, has slowly expanded its reach over the years and has now hit a…

Top chat app Line has just launched its own taxi service in Japan, rivaling those from Uber and Hailo.

There’s now a crowdfunding campaign to support the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and the families of victims of yesterday’s killing spree at its headquarters.

We’ve got gadgets and gizmos a plenty. We’ve got Whosits and Whatsits, galore! You want thingamabobs? I’ve got twenty! You guys, I’m just going to be perfectly honest. I went…

Over the course of four years, Fab raised more than $300 million and pivoted twice, from gay dating site to design-focused retailer to co-founder Jason Goldberg’s latest pet project, Hem.…

Duolingo, the popular language learning tool, today announced the launch of Duolingo for Schools, a service that makes it easier for schools to use its platform in a structured learning…

The “Year of the Hack” will probably be one way that 2014 will be remembered. But it actually began in 2013 with a phishing email. There are clues to how…

Looking to bring machine learning to the masses — or at least the masses of businesses that could benefit from embedding artificial intelligence in their applications — Seattle-based GraphLab has raised…

Early last year, LinkedIn opened up its publishing platform to all members, initially arriving for a selection of English-language speakers on the network. Previously, access to the blogging platform had…

It’s CES, which means Apple has just dropped its annual reminder that plenty of folk won’t care a fig for all those non-iOS consumer electronics that are currently getting manhandled…

Samba Networks (formerly Samba Mobile) has closed a $377,000 angel round of investment from Digicel, Mark Charkin (formerly of King.com and Bebo), and other existing angels, followed its pivot last…

Non-profit digital rights organization EFF rolled out a new mobile application this morning, which allows users to more easily access the group’s “action center” from their smartphone. However, the new app is…

So much for aping Amazon’s digital strategy. The U.K. retail giant (and supermarket) Tesco has offloaded Blinkbox Movies, its movie and TV on-demand service, to local telco TalkTalk.

Uber is often talked about for its potential to develop a global logistics service, and it is literally stepping into the logistics space after launching a new service called Uber…

YOU-app is a new iOS app by Helsinki-based startup Fifth Corner Inc. which aims to gently nudge its users into healthier daily habits in the form of what they call…

BlackBerry is continuing to expand the reach of its erstwhile walled garden messaging app, BBM. The latest platform it’s targeting is Google’s wearable focused flavor of Android, Android Wear –…

Mister Spex, the European ‘online optician’ (that’s an eyewear online retailer, to you and me), has picked up a new $40 million round in funding led by U.S. investment bank…