Category: Tech news

 Despite an uncertain macroeconomic picture, Accel Partners, one of the most successful investment firms in the U.S. is keeping up the pace of investments in Brazil with a new commitment to the online education service eduK. Read More

 It was an interesting day at AOL.
As you probably saw, Verizon has reached an agreement to acquire AOL for $4.4 billion. There’s a general feeling that this deal was mostly about AOL’s ad business (Verizon’s John Stratton said “the principal interest was around the ad tech platform”) — so what does that mean for the websites that AOL owns, including The… Read More

 It’s tough to find a good tutor, and it’s even tougher to find a good tutor on short notice. MathCrunch is trying to change that, with a mobile app that provides on-demand tutoring for students at a low price. To pursue that goal, the company has raised $3.5 million in seed funding to expand and reach new users. Read More

 Quick hit here, everyone: TubeMogul reported its first-quarter financial performance today, which, coupled with guidance for the second quarter, sent its shares soaring in after-hours trading. The company’s revenue of $30.32 million was better than the $29.41 million that the street expected. The company’s wider-than-expected loss of $0.24 per share, compared to an $0.18… Read More

 GoDaddy reported its first-quarter financial performance today, including a loss of $0.34 per share on revenue of $376.3 million. The street had expected GoDaddy to earn $0.35 per share on revenue of $374.52 million. The firm’s revenue grew 17.5 percent compared to the year-ago period. Read More

 Verizon is out $90 million after the FCC slapped it on the wrist for allowing, and profiting from ‘cramming,’ a mobile industry practice that sees recurring charges placed on consumer cell phone bills, without the full consent of the customer. Read More

 The Apple Watch already had a healthy ecosystem of third-party applications when the smartwatch debuted in April, with some 3,500 apps available shortly after its launch, and many of tech’s biggest names, like Instagram, Twitter, Evernote and others having announced their participation. However, one company whose apps have been notably missing from Apple’s new platform has… Read More

 Although police removed the original Edward Snowden bust from Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park, now you and your friends can print your own eight-inch Snowdens for placement nearly anywhere. The 3D file, available on Thingiverse, depicts a strong-jawed, pensive Snowden wearing his signature glasses. Read More

 Meadow, a YC-backed startup in the medical marijuana space, is partnering with Sidecar to do quick medical marijuana deliveries throughout the city of San Francisco. It follows recent moves by much bigger companies like Google and Uber, which are diving headfirst into the delivery space with services like UberRush and Google Shopping Express. Read More

 McCann Erickson’s vision
is to provide customers
with a premium digital experience
based on a global multiscreen network platform. Read More

 Bleep, an encrypted text, picture and voice chat app built on peer-to-peer architecture by the P2P company BitTorrent, has picked up over 200,000 users on Windows, Android and Mac while in its alpha version. To take things up one more notch, today BitTorrent is bringing the product out of alpha, launching a version that will work on iOS and adding new features, such as a new… Read More

 Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn, best known for being an Apple supplier, has made a strategic investment in the Cyanogen version of the Android mobile OS. Read More

 In honor of our recent joyous union, I present the top five Verizon commercials that I was able to find in about 10 minutes. It should be noted that I have never had Verizon service — mostly because they had awful international coverage for most of the decade. I also think I pissed off their PR person once a long time ago and I haven’t actively covered them since 2010 or so.… Read More

 Not everyone was happy with last week’s major revamp of Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site Flickr. A small, but very vocal, portion of Flickr’s user base of 100 million members, immediately took to the forums to lament the fact that the site’s new “auto-tagging” feature was enabled by default, and, worse, that there was no opt-out option provided. But that may now… Read More

 Almost exactly a year ago, Mozilla announced that it would (very reluctantly) implement the HTML5 DRM specs into Firefox. Today, the organization officially launched HTML5 DRM support with the release of Firefox 38. In addition, however, Mozilla also announced the launch of a separate Firefox download that won’t automatically install Adobe’s technology for playing back… Read More