Hours before the 2014 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony is set to kick off, Google is putting some of its most valuable real estate — their l...
Snippit Launches An App To Add (Brief) Soundtracks To Your Photos
Snippit is a just-launched app offering a twist on photo-sharing. The idea is pretty straightforward — instead of sharing a photo on its ow...
PressFriendly Launches To Teach Startups How To Stop Sending Me Stupid Pitches
Today in software eating the world: Software eating PR! As you might expect, I receive a ginormous number of stupid PR pitches each day, mos...

Google’s $3.2 Billion Acquisition Of Nest Gets The FTC Green Light
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today officially granted permission for Google to acquire Nest, the connected devices comp...
LinkedIn Snatches Up Data Savvy Job Search Startup Bright.com For $120M, In Its Largest Acquisition To Date
Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acq...
Apple Said To Have Acquired Sapphire Display Manufacturing Components, Diamond Cutting Tools
Apple is preparing for a big push in sapphire crystal display manufacturing, according to some new information unearthed by 9to5Mac and tol...
Bionic Hand Gives Amputee Touchy-Feely Sensations
An amputee was able to feel sensations in a prosthetic hand temporarily wired to nerves in his upper arm. Silvestro Micera, Ph.D., led a t...