Category: Tech news

 Business is under intense pressure to transform these days whether it’s finding ways to capitalize on mobile, social, the cloud or big data or taking it a step further and becoming a truly digital enterprise. That was the message this week at the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit in LA –and as I listened to this lesson, I wondered how many people in that room were ready… Read More

 Snapchat has entered into a consent decree with the FTC to address concerns over the company’s privacy policy, app description, and in-app notifications after Snapchat was at the center of a huge data breach last year, exposing 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers. According to the FTC, the security breach was in direct contradiction to promises made by the service around security and… Read More

 Finding workers in this economy sounds like it should be easy. But what if you’re searching for someone with a very particular set of skills, skills they have acquired over a very long career? Skills that make them useful to marketers, events planners, and designers? Those people are a little harder to find and that’s why Eric Bernstein built Werkly. Designed as a peer-to-peer work… Read More

 Some consolidation afoot in world of cloud-based enterprise services. Intuit has made another acquisition to help position itself as the go-to place for small and medium businesses to run their offices in the cloud: it has bought Lettuce, a platform for companies to manage both orders and inventory online. Lettuce is not disclosing the terms of the deal in its announcement, but we have confirmed… Read More

 Amazon has just announced a huge expansion for Sunday deliveries with 15 new cities slated to learn the pleasures of receiving shipments on the weekend. So far, Amazon has only offered Sunday deliveries to New York, LA, and London. Amazon has partnered with the United States Postal Service to make Sunday deliveries a reality. The new cities joining the program include Indianapolis; Lexington and… Read More

 Apple has been working on optical image stabilization tech for use in their iPhones and other devices, according to a new patent application filed with the USPTO (spotted by AppleInsider). This could allow future devices to boost image resolution considerably by stitching together multiple exposures for each picture. This isn’t exactly how others use optical image stabilization, which is… Read More

 Music startup 8tracks just released a major new version of its iPhone app. The 3.0 version comes with a completely redesigned interface, a simpler user experience and a new advertising strategy. At its core, it remains a laid-back radio service like Pandora or Songza, but with human-generated playlists. After launching the app, the music experience is slightly different. You are presented with a… Read More

 AdYapper, a startup allows marketers to see how often their online ads are viewed, has raised $1 million in new funding from angel investors, including movie producer Jack Giarraputo. In addition, the TechStars alum also gained accreditation from the Media Rating Council (MRC) for real-time measurements of viewable display ad impressions. Read More

 After raising $1 million last year and debuting its smartwear clothing-embedded sensor tech, Montreal-based OMsignal is now ready to start accepting orders from customers. Its first product is the OM shirt, with four new models going up for pre-order today including an undershirt, sleeveless shirt, t-shirt and long-sleeved shirt for men. Each of these new shirts tracks your heart rate, breathing… Read More

 Phonebloks, the company started by Dutch designer Dave Hakkens with the aim of developing modular electronics, is touting its success in moving its mission forward today, while also calling for additional support in making efficient, user replaceable gadgets a reality – this time from industry partners who support major platform makers. Sennheiser is the first such partner mentioned in the… Read More

 There’s a certain irony when black cab drivers in London are inadvertently empathising with the French. The BBC is reporting that drivers of the UK capital city’s fully licensed “meter”-equipped taxis are planning a protest against US-headquartered Uber’s expansion to London. Read More

 Box announced a huge customer score this morning with General Electric agreeing to use Box across the entire organization. According to Box, this will involve rolling out the service to 300,000 GE employees across 170 countries. GE is betting that Box will help them collaborate internally and externally with partners and take advantage of mobile and the cloud. In a time when companies are under… Read More

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Inês Henriques believes 2-D printers have an important role to play in the future of the internet of things.