Category: Tech news

 Your team has spent many months perfecting your mobile app, so of course you want people to download it. You want to get your app high up in the app store charts. I get it. Totally. However, you (and a lot of companies) have gotten overly aggressive with how you go about “suggesting” that we download your app. Read More

This inexpensive Android phone doesn’t have a lot of power, but it has some unique features including a reversible design that works upside-down.

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 In my previous TechCrunch article you learned that I’m a big fan of the millennial generation. A really big fan. So much so, and as a result of the article, I’ve been informed by several individuals (both publicly and privately) that I am a millennial trapped in a GenX body. I’ll take that. Read More

 A new hire at Apple has the WSJ pointing at the unannounced vehicle project. Apple has reportedly hired Doug Betts, who most recently served as a Senior Vice President of Global Quality for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Betts has a garage full of previous work experience in the auto industry, including stints at Fiat Chrysler, Nissan and Toyota. It appears that Betts’ past roles have… Read More

 This one might be a bit confusing due to product naming weirdness, but here we go:
Google+ Photos, the photo sharing solution built into Google’s social network Google+, is shutting down.
However: Google Photos (note the lack of +) — as in the excellent, unlimited free photo host that Google launched back in May — will live on. Read More

 If you know anything about Twitter, you probably know that one of the issues the site has always had is policing its global community with consistency. Too often someone complains that they’ve been harassed on the site but they don’t see anything come of it. Still, the company is making progress. Read More

 Google’s share price has been spiking over the past week and is on its way to surpassing a market cap of a cool half-trillion. It’s insane to think that at one point Larry Page and Sergey Brin were turned down when they tried to sell Google for $750 thousand. Here’s a look at some massive missed opportunities in the past decade that we can probably be thankful never happened. Read More

 GoPro is taking steps to make some cash on the back of the vast troves videos its users are creating. The company just announced a platform that lets content creators license videos to brands and media companies. With this platform, your GoPro videos could make their way into advertisements and get you (and GoPro) paid. Read More

 Today following the end of regular trading, IBM reported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $20.8 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $3.84. Using normal accounting methods, IBM had a slimmer $3.58 per-share profit. The street had expected the enterprise firm to generate $3.78 of adjusted per-share profit on revenue of $20.95 billion of revenue. According… Read More

 Since the days of the horse and buggy, there has been a fundamental relationship between vehicle and driver. The advent of driverless cars will invert this dynamic as we all roll forward into the future. What should cities do now to prepare? Due to the popularity of application based on-demand vehicle services, we have some foreshadowing of what may arise. Read More

 Josh Greenberg, the 28-year-old co-founder and CTO of the web-based music-streaming service Grooveshark, has reportedly died of unknown causes. Read More

 We got our first look at FOVE, the virtual reality headset that’s controlled by eye movement, at Disrupt SF 2014. FOVE was one of the entrants in the Startup Battlefield, and while the company didn’t win the competition, there were definitely some good times ahead for the company that started in the academic collaboration facility at the University of Tokyo. Read More

 The market for news reading apps got a little more crowded earlier this year when Apple dropped into the scene with Apple News. But as of today, it’s thinning out a little bit once more. Prismatic — a company that developed a way to suggest things to you to read based on what your friends and connections were liking and reading, using some clever algorithms to surface unexpected… Read More

 Microsoft seems intent to make its digital assistant Cortana culturally fluent. In a post today, the software firm detailed when it will launch Cortana into new markets with Windows 10, and how it will slot the tool into various countries, each of which have their own hallmarks. Read More

 Evernote has made some changes at the top of the company today, naming Chris O’Neill its new CEO and announcing that Phil Libin will be sliding over to the Executive Chairman spot, where he can be “more more actively involved with shaping the next generation of Evernote products.” Read More