Carta takes heat, Samsung unveils an upgraded Ballie, and Volkswagen brings ChatGPT to cars

In this edition of TechCrunch's Week in Review (WiR) newsletter, we cover the recent Carta controversy, Samsung's Ballie and Volkswagen cars with chatbots.

Google’s Fitbit acquisition is official

Following regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the pond, Google this morning announced that it has completed its acquisition of wearables pioneer Fitbit. Google’s use of the vast amount of user heal

Apple Vision Pro review: The infinite desktop

In 2000, Paradox Press published “Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form.” The book was Scott McCloud’s follow-up to his seminal 1993 work, &#

Meet The Gadgets Vying For The Crunchie For Hardware Of The Year For 2015

On February 8, some of the best and brightest startups, entrepreneurs and investors will pack into San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House for the 9th Annual Crunchies, essentially the Oscars for s

Wireless Power And Battery Life Anxiety

Intel, Qualcomm Hit CES: As Mobile Chip Battle Heats Up, Tech Giants Will Collide

At the start of CES 2013, Qualcomm has an enviable dominant market position, owning half the mobile processor shipments and virtually all of the LTE/4G baseband chipset shipments. But it has limited b

Don’t Call It A Comeback: How Carriers Could Take Back Control of The Mobile Ecosystem

LL Cool J began his 1991 song “Mama Said Knock You Out” with the famous lines “Don't call it a comeback/I've been here for years." Today in the world of telcos and wireless operators, it’s a s

Samsung's Now Served Up 1 Million Apps Via Its Web-Connected HDTVs, Google TV What?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/samsung-9000-led-hdtv-smart-tv-with-apps.jpg">You don't need to wait for Google or Apple to bring apps to your HDTV. Samsung's been servi

Samsung's Now Served Up 1 Million Apps Via Its Web-Connected HDTVs, Google TV What?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/samsung-9000-led-hdtv-smart-tv-with-apps.jpg">You don't need to wait for Google or Apple to bring apps to your HDTV. Samsung's been servi

Audi's Chairman, Rupert Stadler, To Keynote CES 2011

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Audi_sm_02.jpg">The automotive space is quickly turning into a gadget wonderland and so it feels right to have the chairman of one the wo

Why I Don't Believe In the Notion Ink Adam (Among Other Devices)

I’ve been allowed the great privilege of enjoying a spirited discussion on this very site with a number of die-hard fans of the Notion Ink Adam tablet. In over 135 comments directed at us by thi

The Top Ten Groundbreaking Slates

Tomorrow is a big day. Apple will be revealing a brand new product to the masses. While we don’t know what it will be called, we’re quite certain Jobs will be unveiling the much-anticipate

The AudioFile: Keep It Simple, Stupid

Einstein said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Few companies in the MP3 player business grasp this important principle, and it continues to bite them in

Future Samsung DLPs Can Handle "Mind-Blowing" 3D

This year’s CES featured a super-secret demo (read: no media) of a tech that just might save DLP: 3D. According to our source, the 2007 Samsung Slim DLP HDTVs will be capable of handing “f

CES 2007: Dear Diary…The Recap

Just thought I’d milk CES for a couple more posts today. The first of which is this handy recap of my CES 2007 meetings. Here are all the links, and so you don’t have to wade through all t

CES 2007: Dear Diary…Samsung's Mobiles, Kodak's Colors And A Wireless Router That Launches Missiles

Hooray for Tuesday! It’s now the morning of January 9 and I’m headed to a 9 a.m. meeting with Samsung Mobile, but my cab takes the Strip to get to the LVCC making me late. (In case you mis

CES 2007: Dear Diary…

I had such high hopes and big plans for this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. And yet, within four hours of setting down in Las Vegas, my dreams began to crumble. I wanted to offer you, the rea

CES Post Show Thoughts From a Tired Writer

For many of us the best part of being back from CES is that it is now the longest amount of time until we have to go back to Las Vegas for another CES. That’s not to say that the show isn’t enjoya

Samsung YP-K3 DAP Looks Sexy As Hell

Now this is what we call a sexy MP3 player. Pictured above is the YP-K3, the successor to Samsung’s YP-K5 audio player. This bad boy has a great design and is supposedly Samsung’s thinnest player

The Futurist: That Most Wonderful Time of the Year or… A First Look at the 2007 CES

In this very special episode of The Futurist, we take a myopic look into the future. Three weeks into the future, that is, to a land called Las Vegas and an event called CES — the annual tech or
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