Collen Kriel, Author at SiliconANGLE

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After turning down $3B from Facebook, Snapchat could get $20M from Yahoo

By Collen Kriel Oct 6, 2014

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…

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Evernote is eating your brain: New plans for wearables, fresh features at EC4

By Collen Kriel Oct 3, 2014

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…

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Tune out and turn off with ‘Offtime’ for Android

By Collen Kriel Oct 3, 2014

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…

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Suicidal SSD ‘kills itself’ after just one text message

By Collen Kriel Oct 2, 2014

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…

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Could Front rescue our love/hate relationship with email?

By Collen Kriel Oct 2, 2014

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…

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Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ coming to a Honda dashboard near you

By Collen Kriel Oct 2, 2014

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…

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PayPal’s independence will bring the fight to competitors

By Collen Kriel Oct 1, 2014

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…

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GoPro’s new ‘Hero’ is a game changer

By Collen Kriel Sep 30, 2014

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…

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Slim, colorful and cheap – HP’s new Stream series of Windows tablets

By Collen Kriel Sep 30, 2014

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…

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Xbox One at last on sale in China, without Halo

By Collen Kriel Sep 30, 2014

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,…

Collen Kriel

After turning down $3B from Facebook, Snapchat could get $20M from Yahoo

Evernote is eating your brain: New plans for wearables, fresh features at EC4

Tune out and turn off with ‘Offtime’ for Android

Suicidal SSD ‘kills itself’ after just one text message

Could Front rescue our love/hate relationship with email?

Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ coming to a Honda dashboard near you

PayPal’s independence will bring the fight to competitors

GoPro’s new ‘Hero’ is a game changer

Slim, colorful and cheap – HP’s new Stream series of Windows tablets

Xbox One at last on sale in China, without Halo

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