ChangeTip Wants To Kill Clickbait With Social Bitcoin Micropayments

ChangeTip Wants To Kill Clickbait With Social Bitcoin MicropaymentsChangeTip is hoping to drive mass adoption of micropayments on the web by using Bitcoin plus existing social networks as the medium to deliver feeless micro donations to content creators. Which means part of its mission is “to spell the end of clickbait“. And that’s something anyone who spends time online should really be rooting for. Those who...

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Twitter Is Suspending Accounts For Sharing Beheading Images And Videos

Twitter Is Suspending Accounts For Sharing Beheading Images And Videos Tweet a graphic image relating to a video allegedly showing the beheading of photojournalist James Wright Foley and risk having your account suspended. The word comes from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo who announced the company’s actions in a tweet on Wednesday morning, several hours...

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Vine Finally Lets You Import Video From Your Camera Roll

Vine Finally Lets You Import Video From Your Camera RollWith more than 100 million people watching Vines across the web each month, and over 1 billion loops played every day, Vine has just released an update to the app that finally lets users import video from their camera. Twitter’s video sharing app has always required users to film new content directly within the app, using Vine’s once-unique hold-to-record feature. Now, Vine users can import...

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Startup Marketing And How Emotion Drives Customer Action

Startup Marketing And How Emotion Drives Customer Action Editor’s note: Kobie Fuller is a principal at Accel Partners.  Put down the calculator and ignore the data for a second. Contrary to popular belief, startup marketing is not all about quantitative metrics and growth hacking. It’s time to start mapping out what creates a connection between you and your customer. Specifically, I am talking about driving customer actions by leveraging...

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Cloud Storage Is Eating The World Alive

Cloud Storage Is Eating The World AliveEditor’s note: Alex Teu is the vice president of business development at Oxygen Cloud and odrive. “Dead man walking.” That is what many in the storage industry are calling IBM’s storage hardware business. But its storage competitors, including EMC or HP, should not be so quick to wave that flag, as they may follow suit before too long. We are already seeing similar trending signs of their downfall....

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Twitter Pollutes The Timeline

Twitter Pollutes The TimelineIf your Twitter stream is looking a little more crap random than usual there’s a concrete reason for that: Twitter has made a behind-the-scenes change which means it’s algorithmically adulterating the mix of content you see. Not that they’re putting it like that, of course. The specific change in how your Twitter timeline operates allows for the company to inject additional content into your...

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Sony Doesn’t Know Why The PS4 Is Doing Well

Sony Doesn’t Know Why The PS4 Is Doing Well Earlier this month, Sony announced that it has already sold 10 million units of its PlayStation 4 game console since its launch last November, a record-setting figure for the company’s hardware. In an interview with Eurogamer published yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida admitted that the company doesn’t really know why its console is doing so...

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A Second Act For The Internet Of Things

A Second Act For The Internet Of ThingsEditor’s note: David Hirsch is co-founder and partner of Metamorphic Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm headquarterd in New York City. Prior to Metamorphic, he spent eight years at Google where he was on the founding team that launched Google’s advertising monetization strategy and execution. There has been a lot of talk in the venture capital industry about automating the home...

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12 Questions With The CEO Of Thumbtack, Google Capital’s New $100 Million Bet

12 Questions With The CEO Of Thumbtack, Google Capital’s New $100 Million BetIn terms of Silicon Valley hype, Thumbtack has flown a bit under the radar since it was founded five years ago in 2009. But with the announcement today that it’s landed a whopping $100 million investment led by Google Capital, Thumbtack’s days of relative tech press anonymity are almost certainly over. For the uninitiated, Thumbtack is an online marketplace that helps ...

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Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You

Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You.Somewhere, somehow, maybe less than a year after I got the latest version of my iPhone, its battery would mysteriously deplete in about half a day. I wasn’t really sure why. But now I can find out. There’s a new app called ‘Normal’ out from a pair of Stanford Ph.Ds in computer science named Adam Oliner and Jacob Leverich, who are turning some postdoctoral research into a company called Kuro...

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Unseen, An Anonymous Photo Sharing App For Colleges, Raises $2.1 Million

Unseen, An Anonymous Photo Sharing App For Colleges, Raises $2.1 Million Next StoryAn Austin-based company called Bearch has raised $2.1 million in seed funding for its anonymous photo-sharing app Unseen, which has been trending on college campuses. Investors in the round include Rackspace co-founder Dirk Elmendorf, Indeed.com CEO Rony Kahan, CEO of Woodbolt International Doss Cunningham, and several other angel investors. At first glance,...

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Facebook

Facebook Facebook is an online social networking service founded by Mark Zuckerberg on February 4, 2004 with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The name, “Facebook,” comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at American universities. Though membership on Facebook was initially limited to Harvard students, it later expanded...

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Microsoft

Microsoft Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, and personal computers. Its most recognized software products include the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft hardware products include the Xbox game...

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Your Lost Android Phone Can Now Call You

Your Lost Android Phone Can Now Call You Did you know that Android has a built-in mechanism for locating or locking your lost phone? Google hasn’t done the best job marketing it, but it’s actually been baked right in since the release of Android 4.4*. (It works with older Android phones, too — you just have to install the free app yourself) Today that feature gets even better, thanks to the addition of a trick that seems so obviously great in...

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Android

Android Released in September 2008, Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel with a user interface that allows for direct manipulation. It was designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers with variants for television, cars and wristwear. The operating system uses a virtual keyboard, as well as touch inputs that correspond to real-world actions, like swiping, tapping, pinching...

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Truth Lets You Send Anonymous Texts

Truth Lets You Send Anonymous Texts With Whisper and Secret raising millions of dollars to build anonymous services, all kinds of apps are popping up that let you share things without attaching your identity. While most of the apps emerging try to build a community by letting you scroll through streams of anonymous messages, some developers are creating apps that let you reach out directly to people in your contacts. There seems to be some latent...

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Looking Ahead To Windows 9

Looking Ahead To Windows 9A preview of Windows 9 will be made available in either September or October, according to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley. That timeline keeps ‘Threshold’ — Windows 9’s codename — out into the public market as a finished product likely in early 2015. The Windows 8 era isn’t merely closing, it’s racing to an end. Last weekend I posited that as Windows 9 appears to be galloping to market, it’s a decent time to start saying goodbye...

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Apple Flexes Muscles in Health Field

Apple Flexes Muscles in Health FieldApple is building up for a major move in the health industry, based on unconfirmed reports that it has engaged in deep discussions with major healthcare and electronic health records providers. Hopes -- and perhaps fears -- that Apple soon will unveil an amazing, stylish must-have wearable gadget that does all the things you'd want a smartwatch or fitness band to do are on the riseThe app will collate all...

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Is iPhone 6L Apple's chosen name for the larger 5.5-inch handset?

Is iPhone 6L Apple's chosen name for the larger 5.5-inch handset?Having it large? The iPhone 6 is in line for a reveal on September 9Get paid to share your links! Related storiesPurported iPhone 6 casing is slimmer and may hint at a little extra glowThis could be our first picture of the iPhone 6 running iOS 8Did Apple take iPhone 6 design cues from the competition?The rumoured larger iteration of Apple's next-gen handset will be called the iPhone...

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iPhone 6 release date, news and rumors

   iPhone 6 release date, news and rumorsUpdated Everything we've heard so far about the new iPhone 6 Page 1 of 3iPhone 6 release date and price Is an even bigger iPhone on the way? Related storiesSamsung Galaxy Note 4 release date, news and rumorsApple iWatch will reportedly have slightly rectangular 2.5-inch displayiPad Pro release date, news and rumorsLatest update: Looking for an iPhone 6 release date? Well we may just have one...

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