Category: Tech news

 Admit it: When you think of online research, it’s usually just a fancy way of saying you’re going to Google something — I’m guilty, anyway. Los Angeles-based Edtwist isn’t trying resist that, exactly, but it has created what founder and CEO Julie Lee said is a more collaborative and “learning-centric” environment, one where students and other… Read More

 In today’s tech climate – where financing sources are plentiful and investor optimism is generally high – many believe that there has been no better time to get funded and realize their startup ideas. But Todd McKinnon would tell you that the best time to start Okta was in 2009 – just a few months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the beginning of the great… Read More

 The Ethereum project and ConsenSys, the company created by one of the project’s co-creators, have received a huge vote of approval from one of the world’s biggest enterprise software providers — Microsoft. The company will be working with ConsenSys to provide development tools for Microsoft’s enterprise customers on the Azure platform. Read More

 After staying relatively quiet on the future of virtual reality, Apple has made its first foray into the space via a 360-degree U2 music video made available on the Vrse app. The music video is part of a larger Apple Music partnership with U2 called “The Experience Bus,” which is basically an environment at concerts for U2 fans to come strap on Oculus headsets and pairs of Beats… Read More

 GoPro is working on a drone that’s scheduled for release in early 2016. The company just posted a sneak peak of footage captured from the new drone. Spoiler: It’s silky smooth.
This footage was released an hour after GoPro announced a disappointing third quarter financial statement, which caused the stock price to crash 18% in after-hours trading. Analysts are skeptical about… Read More

 U.S. regulators today announced new exemptions to a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that will make it possible for nerds to tinker with cars and gadgets without breaking copyright laws. Read More

 Today marks the one-year anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) declaring the HTML5 standard complete, a significant milestone in the history of the Internet and web application development. In this past year, HTML5 adoption has gone into overdrive, with more and more companies moving to HTML5 to deliver rich cross-platform web applications. Read More

 After first announcing a split from eBay more than a year ago, PayPal today reported quarterly earnings for the first time as an independent company.
The company reported adjusted earnings of $0.31 per share on revenues of $2.26 billion which beat average earnings estimates of $0.29 cents per share but slightly missed revenue estimates of $2.27 billion. Read More

 The game is afoot for social networking as the landscape continues to change. Read More

 Today following the bell, Yelp reported its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $143.6 million, and earnings per share of $0.03, calculated using non-traditional metrics.
Investors had expected Yelp to post revenue of $141.42 million. Read More

 GoPro took a dive Wednesday after releasing Q3 financials that disappointed street expectations.
At the market’s close, GoPro reported a miss on its Q3 earnings, posting an adjusted $0.25 per share on $400.3 million non-GAAP revenue during the period. Those figures compared to street expectations of a $0.29 per-share profit, and revenue of $433.6 million.
The action camera… Read More

 Forget that Google Fiber went down in Kansas City during the World Series last night, the service is speedy as all hell.
Today, the Fiber team announced the exploration of 3 new locations: Oklahoma City, Jacksonville and Tampa:
We’re inviting Oklahoma City, OK, Jacksonville, FL and Tampa, FL, to explore bringing Google Fiber to their communities, as we did last month with three other… Read More

 Facebook’s platform strategy is finally coming to fruition as it builds ad buying into the free analytics tool it offers app developers. Today Facebook gathered reporters before its FbStart developer event to provides updates on the social network’s platform: Facebook’s free, lightweight Mixpanel competitor “Analytics For Apps” hit 200,000 apps onboard and got… Read More

 There’s a connected gadget for just about anything these days. Why should flossing be any different?
Flosstime, launched on Kickstarter with a $15,000 goal, is a smart floss dispenser that is mounted on the mirror to help build daily flossing habits. It’s pretty simple:
Flosstime sits on the mirror of the bathroom and dispenses the right amount of floss when you press a button… Read More

 Chris Michel talks about the similarity between photographing the North Pole and being an entrepreneur, his learnings from being fired as CEO of his first company, similarities and differences between the dot-com days and now, and the value of long-term relationships Read More