Facebook Unveils Verified Pages And Profiles, Takes A Page From Twitter’s...
Facebook has just announced a new verified feature for pages and profiles, designed to give high-profile accounts an added level of authenticity. This is clearly a straightforward copy of Twitter’s...
View ArticleYves Behar’s August Smart Lock Lets Users Open Doors With A Mobile App
The smart home has grown in importance over the years, with new technologies being used to connect users with what used to be dumb objects. Products like the Nest thermostat show how wireless...
View ArticleSnapchat Hiring Massive Sales Team, Said To Be Raising $100M At A Near $1B...
Snapchat is aggressively recruiting sales people from Stanford as well as USC for its impending debut of a monetization scheme, we’ve discovered. Meanwhile it’s raising $100 million at a valuation as...
View ArticleEFF’s Peter Eckersley On ‘Clever’ PRISM Denials, Fighting FISA, And Why...
It’s had to have been an interesting week for the people at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The non-profit has been beating the drum about the importance of digital rights, privacy, and...
View ArticleWe Asked For This
There is a certain jollity in the reactions of the webby class to news that the NSA has been, first, spying on Verizon communications for years, and second has approached multiple...
View ArticleFacebook’s New Colocation And Image Recognition Patents Tease The Future Of...
Facebook’s empire was built on photo tags and sharing, but it’s a grueling process many neglect. Luckily, new Facebook patents give it tech to continuously capture video whenever your camera is open,...
View Article¿Cómo Ha Crecido Path? By Buying Ads In Spanish
The mystery of Path’s mysterious growth deepens. The app, which has been around for nearly three years, miraculously jumped up the charts from between 500th and 600th place to the teens on the free...
View ArticleFacebook Will Launch A News Reader At June 20th Press Event
The upcoming death of Google Reader and the addition of hashtags signal Facebook will likely launch a new way to discover and read news at the June 20th press event it’s just sent out mysterious...
View ArticleFacebook Makes The First Big Dent On FISA, Releases Data On All U.S....
Updated. As the PRISM scandal shows no signs of dying down in the public consciousness, Facebook has just released the fullest account to date of the requests it has received from United States law...
View ArticleInstagram, Technology’s Window To The Soul
Today Instagram revealed a new mission statement that reflects its true purpose. At our best, we don’t share photos or videos to brag or get ‘Likes’. We share to let others see through our eyes....
View ArticleCrunchGov Essential: How The Internet Helped Gay America Come Out Of The Closet
CrunchGov Essential is a scannable roundup of technology’s influence on the day’s big issues. Below a feature post, we present the most thoughtful, outrageous, and inspiring stories told through the...
View ArticleZuck’s Adorable Sheepdog Beast Is Now A Facebook Messages Sticker Pack
Now you and Facebook’s CEO can unwind in the same way: playing with Beast. The billionaire’s Puli dog just got his own Facebook Stickers pack, which lets you forgo typing and instead send friends...
View ArticleBasno Raises $1M For Its Digital Badges Platform That Aims To Monetise Boasting
You’ve probably noticed how emoji and stickers have spread like a virus all over every messaging app under the sun. Well, New York-based startup Basno is hoping its digital badges platform can tap...
View ArticleFeedspot Offers A Solid Google Reader Replacement With Built-In Search And...
Feedspot, the online RSS reader which jumped into action last summer following the removal of social features from Google Reader, is again stepping up to the plate in the wake of the Google Reader...
View ArticleLet’s Have General Solicitation As Congress Intended It
Editor’s note: William Carleton practices law in Seattle, blogs daily at Counselor @ Law and writes a weekly column on implementation of the JOBS Act for VC Experts. Follow him on Twitter at @wac6....
View ArticleZynga’s New CEO Don Mattrick Says It Won’t Be Quick Or Easy To Get The...
Don Mattrick, the new Zynga CEO announced at the beginning of the month, offered his initial on-the-job observations today during the conference call discussing the company’s second-quarter earnings....
View ArticleGreylock’s Data Scientist In Residence DJ Patil Joins Enterprise Relationship...
Greylock’s data scientist in residence DJ Patil is joining data-focused, enterprise relationship manager RelateIQ, we’ve learned. Patil tells us he will be the startup’s VP of Product. When Patil...
View ArticleActiveNotifications Lets You Bring The Moto X’s Best Feature To Other Android...
I’ve been spending a lot of time with the Moto X lately (full review coming shortly), and while the spec sheet isn’t to everyone’s liking, it packs some smart features that I’d love to see on other...
View ArticleStartups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better
In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the...
View ArticleThe Problem With The Lean In-tern
I am a college student in a field that traditionally offers unpaid internships. If you were to ask me two years ago to work for a big-name publication with no pay, I would have jumped at the chance....
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