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After turning down $3B from Facebook, Snapchat could get $20M from Yahoo
Snapchat Inc. Co-founders Evan Spiegal and Bobby Murphy reportedly rejected a $3 billion takeover from Facebook, Inc. as well as offers from China’s Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings Ltd. in recent years. It is now believed that Yahoo Inc. will invest millions in the mobile messaging service. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Yahoo ...
Evernote is eating your brain: New plans for wearables, fresh features at EC4
Yesterday, at the annual Evernote Conference taking place in San Francisco, Evernote Corp. announced a host of new features. These new updates, along with improvements made to current features, brings the productivity app that much closer to becoming a virtual extension of your brain. The seven-year-old productivity app has more than 100 million users and the more than 20 announcements made ...
Tune out and turn off with ‘Offtime’ for Android
Offtime for Android wants to free us from our smartphones. A Berlin-based startup, the app lets you “switch off and tune out” while still allowing you access to the important things via controls set by you. You get to decide if and when a call from your spouse or boss is allowed through. The app offers ...
Suicidal SSD ‘kills itself’ after just one text message
Fit for a British spy, the UK-based SecureDrives has announced a range of solid state disk (SSD) drives that will self-destruct when triggered remotely via SMS text message. The drives function normally with automated 256-bit self-encryption, but the user has the ability to wipe any stored data via a simple SMS, should the drive be ...
Could Front rescue our love/hate relationship with email?
Email can be the bane of our existence especially when it comes to work email. A new app called Front allows you to make more sense of the emails that are streaming into your company’s email inboxes. Whenever you receive an email to your group email accounts, like sales@, jobs@, contact@ or support@ email addresses, ...
Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ coming to a Honda dashboard near you
Paris is good for more than just fashion shows. At this week’s Paris Motor Show, Honda Motor Company, Ltd and Nvidia announced they are teaming up on the automaker’s new industry-first Android-based infotainment system, called Honda Connect. Honda Connect will be powered by the Tegra 3 system-on-chip. Honda may not be the first auto manufacturer to reveal ...
PayPal’s independence will bring the fight to competitors
eBay Inc.’s announcement yesterday that it will spin off PayPal into a separate business in 2015 may position PayPal to more effectively respond to growing competition in the online payments market. PayPal faces rivals from the likes of Google Inc.’s Google Wallet, Square Inc. and Skrill Ltd. to name few of the more established players. Meanwhile ...
GoPro’s new ‘Hero’ is a game changer
GoPro, Inc. is releasing its new Hero line of cameras on October 5th. The range includes the Hero, the Hero4 Silver and the Hero4 Black. While the three new models vary in price and specifications, it is the GoPro Hero that is set to make the biggest impact; especially amongst customers new to GoPro. It ...
Slim, colorful and cheap – HP’s new Stream series of Windows tablets
Announced September 29th, Hewlett-Packard Co.’s new colorful and thin HP Stream series of Windows laptops and tablets are machines looking to combine work and play. The range consists of two new laptops and two tablets. HP’s announcement of their new additions is perfectly timed in the lead-up to the holidays, with availability due for November ...
Xbox One at last on sale in China, without Halo
On Monday, September 29, Xbox One went on sale in more than 4,000 retail outlets in 37 cities across mainland China. The country recently ended a 14-year ban on the sale of foreign-made game consoles, making Microsoft, Corp.’s Xbox One the first game console to go on sale there after the ban was lifted. The launch ...