Startup Founder Hacks Investor’s Voicemail In Attempt to Get Funding
It’s hard to cast a better clusterfuck — or a worse caricature of Silicon Valley hustle—than what happened to tech investor Jason Calacanis. “Someone hacked my voicemail and changed my outgoing message to get me to invest,” he wrote on Instagram yesterday, along with a recording of the new message.
October 27, 2014 at 11:09PM
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Google’s New Skybox For Good Program Gives Real-Time Satellite Imagery To Nonprofits
Google will provide real-time satellite imagery to organizations and programs that save lives, protect the environment, promote education and positively impact humanity, according to the official blog post.
October 27, 2014 at 07:04PM
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Apple and Amazon Have a Problem: People Don’t Want to Buy Stuff Anymore
The core of Amazon’s business — its original reason for being: selling books and other media — has grown wobbly. The problem: many people no longer want to buy stuff. They’d rather rent.
October 27, 2014 at 06:55PM
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Apple Eyes New Uses for NFC Beyond iPhone Payments
Consumers are just starting to use Apple Pay to make purchases at cash registers and online stores. But Apple representatives have also talked to potential partners about using the technology behind Apple Pay for other sorts of transactions, including building security access and accepting tickets at public transit turnstiles.
October 27, 2014 at 05:45PM
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The ugly afterlife of crowdfunding projects that never ship and never end
Even projects crowdfunded to excess enter tense, never-ending development hell.
October 27, 2014 at 04:36PM
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How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism
Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy.
October 27, 2014 at 04:36PM
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Amazon sitting on $83 million of unsold Fire Phones
Amazon’s financial results for the third financial quarter of 2014 didn’t do the company any favors when they were announced late last week; the retail giant posted a quarterly net loss of $437 million, up dramatically from last year’s 3Q loss of $41 million. The biggest single contributor to the bad news? Amazon’s Fire Phone.
October 27, 2014 at 01:06PM
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This terrible CVS receipt shows why Apple Pay has little to fear from retailers
CurrentC, the product some major retailers are backing instead of Apple Pay, looks like it’ll be an incredibly lousy user experience. Why would we expect anything else from Wal-Mart and CVS?
October 27, 2014 at 12:48PM
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Centre for Process Innovation wants to eliminate airplane windows, turn walls into screens.
Vague, over-wing cloud photos are a staple of vacation albums across the Internet, but a British technology incubator wants to do away with them completely. You’ll still be able to see the sky, though. The Centre for Process Innovation is proposing the elimination of airplane cabin windows to make room for floor to ceiling wraparound screens showing continuous footage from outside the plane.
October 27, 2014 at 12:48PM
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The Inside Story Of A $1 Billion Acquisition That Caused Cisco To Divorce Its Closest Partner
Tech giant EMC said last week that it’s ending its wildly successful joint venture with Cisco, known as VCE. This is the most recent — and most serious — step in the slowly unfolding divorce between the partners.
October 27, 2014 at 10:26AM
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