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June 30, 2014
The pro-privacy Blackphone, a hardened Android smartphone that focuses on making rigorous security features more accessible to a general phone user, has started shipping to its first wave of buyers. Blackphone is a…
Read articleJune 30, 2014
More consolidation afoot in the world of mobile ads. Perion, the publicly-listed mobile app services company that was the subject of a reverse takeover by Conduit last year, is today announcing…
Read articleJune 30, 2014
In watching the latest drama unfold over Facebook and its experimentation with users, I’m moved to argue that sometimes you can be too honest. For game makers especially…
Read articleJune 29, 2014
I’ve been gay since I was… well, born. At seven years old, I knew something was different when I felt an overwhelming affection for my 19-year-old basketball coach,…
Read articleJune 29, 2014
Historically, when looking for opportunity in the financial industry where technology can have the greatest impact — for investors and entrepreneurs — the best place to start has…
Read articleJune 28, 2014
TalkBin, a customer feedback platform for businesses that was incubated at Y Combinator and then acquired by Google in 2011, is being shut down on July 31, citing…
Read articleJune 28, 2014
Andreessen Horowitz managing partner Scott Kupor argued that there doesn’t seem to be a bubble in tech at the PreMoney 2014 conference in San Francisco this morning. In…
Read articleJune 27, 2014
The first Android Wear smartwatches aren’t yet available to consumers (though two start shipping July 7), but already we’ve managed to enjoy some time with each of the…
Read articleJune 27, 2014
Companies face an inherent tension between being open or proprietary, but we’ve seen, again and again, that open systems can act as catalysts for entirely new businesses built…
Read articleJune 26, 2014
I’ve been waiting for the Supreme Court ruling on Aereo all week. When it came down yesterday, it felt a little bit like Groundhog Day. If the Supreme…
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