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Pikichat Is A Deadly Simple Photo Chat App Built In One Week
3:37 am PDT • June 13, 2014
Pikichat is a new iPhone app to share quirky photos with your friends. It is very reminiscent of Snapchat when it comes to design and branding. But the story behind…
Enterprise
Canon Buys Milestone Systems To Build Its Video Surveillance Business
2:33 am PDT • June 13, 2014
Some consolidation afoot in the world of enterprise video. Imaging giant Canon is buying Milestone Systems, a startup from Denmark that has developed software for video surveillance systems. Terms of…
Media & Entertainment
Following COO Resignation, Twitter’s Head Of Media Chloe Sladden Departs
5:48 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
Following the resignation of Twitter’s chief operating officer Ali Rowghani, Twitter’s Vice President of Media Chloe Sladden has also announced her departure. “Now it’s time for my next chapter. #staytuned…
Mobile video ad company AdColony published a blog post this afternoon denying a TechCrunch report that it had either been acquired or was close to being acquired by Opera Software.
Media & Entertainment
Samsung Aims To Reinvigorate Its Tablet Line With The New Galaxy Tab S
5:00 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
Samsung has a new tablet family as of today, as it unveiled the Galaxy Tab S line of devices at its special event in NYC. Available in July, the Tab…
Former Microsoft Employee Involved In Windows 8 Leaks Given 3-Month Sentence
4:53 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
After pleading guilty, former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo will pay a $100 fine and serve three months in prison for stealing trade secrets. His case picked up wide notice not…
Yesterday, tech and culture website The Verge revived This Is My Next, a brand that the core team had used to transition away from their places at Engadget into their…
Fintech
Intel Rises 5.5% After-Hours On Raised Q2 And Full-Year Revenue Expectations
4:30 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
After ending regular trading all but flat today, Intel is up 5.47 percent after-hours on the strength of new guidance for its second quarter and full-year revenue, and a slight…
Startups
Facebook Messenger Adds Tap-And-Hold Video Sharing, Another Snapchat Feature
4:24 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
Why tell with text when you can show with video? Facebook Messenger is diving deeper into visual communication with a new option to instantly record and send short videos, similar…
Media & Entertainment
Amazon Prime Music Is Actually About Selling More Physical Goods
4:13 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
We are entering the age of the omnibundle, where what you see isn’t what you’re paying for. Take Amazon adding a “free” music-streaming service to its $99 a year Prime…
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Happiness Is A Cyber Gun – How We Can “Do Something” About Mass Shootings With Technology
2:49 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
We incessantly discuss gun control, argue on social media, and try to grasp why this keeps happening — why our children continue to get shot in what seems like a…
Transportation
Taking BMW’s Electric Car Sharing Program DriveNow For A Spin Around SF
2:33 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
When you think of car sharing, you probably think of names such as ZipCar, City CarShare, Relay Rides and Getaround. What may not come to mind is BMW. The German…
Rumors of an imminent management shakeup at Twitter became a reality today as the company’s COO Ali Rowghani departed that role. In a down market, Twitter rose 3.5 percent in…
Trusper Adds Music, Movies, And Books As It Partners With Focus Features
1:23 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
The tip-sharing social networking mobile app Trusper has rolled out a music, movies, and books category and a feature that lets users purchase suggested content in-app, as it begins to…
Startups
5app Raises $5.1M Seed Round For Its BYOD Enterprise App Store And Builder
1:17 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
As the BYOD wave continues to wash over the enterprise market, different companies are taking different approaches to having their employees use their own phone and tablets for work. Many…
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Outlines New Cybersecurity Paradigm Led By Private Sector
12:34 pm PDT • June 12, 2014
Earlier today, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler outlined his agency’s plans to address cybersecurity to the American Enterprise Institute. Wheeler’s approach would see the private sector, not the FCC, take the leading role in addressing…
Hardware
Tile, The Lost-Item Tracker With Millions In Crowdfunding, Was Worth The Wait
11:56 am PDT • June 12, 2014
The first thing you’ll notice about Tile, the crowdfunded lost-item finder that attaches to bags, keys, bikes and more, is that it’s big. I mean, I know the company provided…
Startups
Outsource Your Bitcoin Mining To HashPlex, Which Just Raised A Seed Round
11:53 am PDT • June 12, 2014
Are too many Bitcoin mining rigs making your office or home unspeakably hot or noisy? You can just outsource it to someone else. Or at least that’s the premise behind…
Sending a bitcoin isn’t that hard – if you know what you’re doing. But since the Federal Election Commission OKed the use of bitcoin by political action committees, things have…
Media & Entertainment
PayPal Launches PassPort To Lure More International Sales From Merchants
11:00 am PDT • June 12, 2014
PayPal and its owner eBay have been through a few tough rounds in the ring these last few months, facing calls from Carl Ichan to split the company (finished for now),…
