You’re in a strange city, and the call of nature beckons you in unfamiliar surrounds, what do you do? While some cities provide ample public amenities, many don’t, such as New York City, and this is where Airpnp steps in, which, as the name may suggest, is an Airbnb Inc. style app for toilets, or as ...

The Whole Pantry, the app created by now disgraced fake cancer survivor Belle Gibson, has been pulled from Apple’s App Store. But it continues to be linked to promotions for the Apple Watch. Gibson, as we reported March 11, created the app based on a miraculous story of her surviving “terminal” cancer through lifestyle and ...

Adobe Systems Inc. is taking your PDFs to the cloud with a new service called the Adobe Document Cloud. The new service combines Adobe’s popular Acrobat software with the power of  cloud-based hosting and allows users to be able to edit, sign, send and track documents using the service across desktops, mobile and web. Not ...

How do you solve the problem of getting users to switch their mobile phone of choice to one on a different operating system? If you’re Apple, a little bribery, otherwise known as incentivization, may be the way to go. According to a report Monday, Apple is going to offer a new recycling and trade-in program ...

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. has today announced the general availability of its Elastic SIP Trunking service, following a successful beta test that launched in November 2014. The service is a cloud-based solution that provides connectivity for IP-based communications infrastructure to connect to the public switched telephone network (PSTN), for making and receiving telephone calls ...

Google Inc.’s video site YouTube is considering launching a subscription video service in the face of increased competition for original content from VoD services including Hulu and Vimeo. The report, buried in a long piece from Variety about the increased competition for the Google-owned video giant states that “YouTube is exploring the prospect of launching its own subscription ...

Google Inc. has announced that it is shutting down Google Code, its open source code project hosting service effective January 25th, 2016. In a post to the Google Open Source Blog Chris DiBona, Google’s Director of Open Source explained that the move to close the service comes due to the fact that GitHub is more popular, and ...

Amazon.com is reported to have acquired Denver based Internet of Things (IoT) platform and technology startup 2lemetry, Inc. Amazon confirmed the news with Venturebeat (first reported elsewhere) and said that “it looked forward to continuing to support 2lemetry customers.” Founded in 2011, 2lemetry is a cloud platform company focused on IoT in the enterprise with an ...

Software as a service (SaaS) e-commerce accounting firm Webgility Inc. has raised $2.5 million in growth funding from SaaS Capital. The investment is the first investment from SaaS Capital’s second fund of $58 million it announced March 5th. The firm doesn’t provide traditional venture capital, but capital to startups in a fashion that is an alternative ...

We don’t usually share details of marketing campaigns for cat food companies here at SiliconANGLE but when you find one that involves cats uploading images to Instagram, how could we resist. The new campaign from the Mars Inc. owned Whiskas Australia includes a new service they’re calling “Catstacam,” a Wi-Fi enabled camera that attaches to a ...