A recent poll suggested that the majority of Americans support the FBI and its order to open the iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Syed...
Monday, 29 February 2016
Tinggal, a budget hotel network in Indonesia, lands $1M from backers of India’s Wudstay
Indonesia-based Tinggal is less than one month old, but today the company announced that it has raised $1 million in funding. Particularly...
Korean last-minute hotel booking app DailyHotel launches in 10 new countries
DailyHotel, a Seoul-based app that lets harried travelers quickly find hotel rooms, has launched in 10 new Asian countries. The startup wa...
Mobile ad-tech startup NativeX acquired by Chinese advertising company Mobvista
NativeX, a startup that makes advertising for mobile games and apps, is being acquired by Chinese mobile ad platform Mobvista. In a statem...
Can Emerging Nations Create Their Own Silicon Valleys?
Innovation requires a level playing field that Silicon Valley elites seem unprepared to give emerging nations. Are the original Valley’s g...
Apple vs FBI: Read Apple’s Opening Statement To Congress Tomorrow
Apple’s general counsel Bruce Sewell will testify before a congressional Judiciary Committee tomorrow. The hearing has been convened to di...
Buffer Adds Twitter-Based Customer Service Tools
Buffer is best known as a scheduling tool to help marketing teams schedule content on social media, but with the acquisition of Respondly ...
Innovations In Cybersecurity At RSA 2016
Beyond artificial intelligence and machine learning to the brave new world of cybersecurity. Read More via Twitter
Is Singularity Near?
The 11th of December 2015, Open AI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company was announced to the world. With $1 billion in fu...
Microsoft Invites Devs to Tinker With HoloLens
Microsoft on Monday announced that its HoloLens Development Edition was available for preorder, with units set to ship to developers begin...
Why Facebook Hosted 200+ African-American Students From The SF Bay Area
Just one day after Mark Zuckerberg’s internal memo leaked, which asked employees to stop crossing out Black Lives Matter slogans, Facebook...
NY Judge Rules In Favor Of Apple In Government Request For iPhone Data
In a New York case, Judge Orenstein has ruled in favor of Apple, denying a government request for information on an iPhone. Orenstein had ...
Meet The Judges For The TC Meetup + Pitch-Off In Brooklyn Tomorrow Night!
Did I mention we’re having a pitch-off in Brooklyn tomorrow night? Because we are! It will be held at Output in Williamsburg at 6pm, and t...
GoPro Spends 20% Of Its Cash On Hand To Acquire Two Video Editing Startups
GoPro today announced the acquisition of two startups to address one of the company’s sore spots: Video editing. Stupeflix and Vemory are ...
Gmail Gets Improved Security Features For Business Users
Google announced a number of new security features for Gmail users in the enterprise today. Last year, the company launched its Data Loss ...
INNOVATE2016: CEA President Gary Shapiro On Marco Rubio As Silicon Valley’s Best Hope
[tc_aol_oncode=”519504403″] Perhaps it’s not surprising that Silicon Valley is apparently praying for the “good billionaire”, Michael Bloo...
Crosley’s First Direct Drive Turntable Doesn’t Disappoint
The Crosley C200 is a great turntable, and I highly recommend checking it out it if you are in the market for a new record player. The des...
Google’s Self-Driving Car Gets Into A Minor Accident While The AI Was Driving
It was bound to happen eventually: one of Google’s self-driving cars has gotten into a minor accident – and, for once, it was while the AI...
Apple Motion Seeks to Block Feds From Acquiring 'Dangerous Power'
Apple last week filed a motion to vacate a federal order requiring the company to create a tool or code to unlock the iPhone of one of the...
Machine Learning Is Not The Answer To Better Network Security
Machine learning isn’t a silver bullet for network security. I know, right now you’re saying “But wait Matt, All I hear is that every hot...
IBM Adds Post-Cyber Attack Planning With Resilient Systems Acquisition
The RSA security conference is being held this week in San Francisco where security pros come together to discuss strategy. IBM made sever...
A New, Standardized Way For Employees To Keep Their Vested Stock Options Longer
Amid headlines about billion-dollars valuations are many employees who remain trapped unless their employers eventually go public or else ...
CornerJob Fires Up Its Blue Collar Jobs Marketplace App With $10M Series A
Another despatch from the ‘mobile messaging is eating the world’ file: blue collar recruitment app and European startup Corner Job has clo...
Facebook’s Private Photo-Sharing App Moments Now Supports Video
Facebook’s Moments, the social network’s private photo-sharing application – and replacement for photo syncing – will now support video-sh...
Israeli Investment Firms receive $665 Million In Commitments In February
Fund February: A flurry of VC funds launch in Israel. Read More via Twitter
MongoLab Changes Its Name To mLab As It looks Beyond Database Management
MongoLab has long been the de facto service for deploying and managing MongoDB databases, but now that the company has cornered this marke...
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