Category: Tech news

 Following the bell today, Twitter released its fourth-quarter earnings report, revealing that it earned $0.12 per share on an adjusted basis on revenue of $479 million during the period. The company’s per-share profit is based on adjusted net income of $79 million.
The street had expected Twitter to earn an adjusted $0.06 per share on revenue of $453.14 million. Twitter’s shares… Read More

 LinkedIn today reported the results of its fourth financial quarter of 2014. The company handily beat Wall Street’s expectations with its revenue of $643, up 44% from the year-ago quarter, for non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.61. Wall Street expected earnings per share around $0.53 and revenue of just under $617 million. For the full year, LinkedIn reported revenue of $2.219 million,… Read More

 StartX, the Stanford-funded and affiliated incubator, just held its demo day for the Fall 2014 batch of startups at its headquarters in Palo Alto. The companies presenting ran the gamut from bitcoin and cybersecurity to open source machine learning. Read More

 Olafur Eliasson is an artist, but one who is well-versed in technology. While perhaps not quite a digital native, he has become fluent in the language and tools that technology offers to artists. Eliasson is ideally placed to straddle the divide between the arts and technology. At his studio in Berlin, he surrounds himself with anyone who might help him to realize his vision for an ambitious… Read More

 Long-running tech blog ReadWrite (originally known as ReadWriteWeb) has found a new home — it’s been acquired by conference/incubator/media company Wearable World.
Its previous owner Say Media announced plans last fall to sell off its owned properties in order to focus on its ad business and its Tempest publishing platform. Read More

 More people than ever are cutting their ties to big cable, and opting to either cut the cord, or just dramatically pare down their cable TV packages. According to Nielsen’s data, the top 40 cable channels have lost an average of 3.2 million subscribers over the past four years. That leaves room for startups catering to the needs of these viewers, who have either replaced or now… Read More

 Two years ago Tony Conrad spun his startup About.me out of Aol after a rumored $35 million acquisition. The service, which offers users a single unified profile page for their digital identity, has grown tremendously in the last year, with over 2.1 billion profile views over the course of the year. Last year, About.me saw nearly 1 billion profile views, representing 257 percent growth from… Read More

 Not all Facebooks are created equal: Facebook Mentions is an app the company released last year that lets celebrities use the social network in a way that’s gear for filtering out noise and making fan engagement much easier. Today, it got a couple of updates that show FB is really all bout the celebs, to the point where it now supports sharing beyond Facebook’s own network to… Read More

 The Swatch Group dropped a bombshell – in its staid way – announcing plans to release a smartwatch in the next three months, potentially to coincide with the April launch of the Apple Watch. First, understand that watch companies don’t know how to market to tech consumers. As I wrote here, Swatch is an integral part in the haute horology industry, a sort of heavy base for… Read More

 Diego Corredor wanted to play guitar but lost his right hand at birth. While he could use a prosthesis to grab a glass of water or pick up objects, he wasn’t able to hold a pick and strum the strings. Then a group of makers at 3D Gluck came along. The team worked with Corredor, who lives in Colombia, to build a custom prosthetic that he could use to play guitar. Because it didn’t… Read More

 I remember meeting Greg Gopman for the first time several years ago at a Facebook mobile hackathon. He had just moved from Miami and was in full-on hustler mode. Newcomers to the Valley are a varied sort. Some are idealists, spewing truisms from Steve Jobs keynotes. Some see stories about billion-dollar acquisitions and have pretty thinly-concealed ambitions of validation through funding… Read More

 While Lego’s own crowdsourcing platform exists, letting users submit ideas for community voting, eventually resulting in some being made, the process is slow and somewhat difficult to navigate. Now Lego set sharing platform Pley is debuting a crowdsourced set creation platform called PleyWorld that can see a submission go from concept to shipping product in as little as two weeks,… Read More

 In a year that included the public disclosure of disappointing diversity numbers by major Silicon Valley companies, the frightening Gamergate controversy, and a public airing of emails and salary data at Sony confirming a culture of sexism within Hollywood, the discussion about women across tech industries reached a fever pitch in 2014. If 2013 was the year of the selfie, then 2014 was the… Read More

 I really, really like Android 5.0 (or “Lollipop”, as it’s known by those of us who probably care too much about these things.) It cemented my preference for Android, and has earned the Nexus 5 another few months as my go-to phone.
Alas, most Android devices still aren’t running 5.0. In the grand scheme, really, hardly any are. Read More

 Driver-on-demand service Uber is building a robotics research lab in Pittsburgh, PA to “kickstart autonomous taxi fleet development,” sources close to the decision have confirmed to TechCrunch. They say the company has hired talent from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, including lead engineering and commercialization experts. Read More