Blogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash mused Wednesday in a blog post that Apple could make Twitter, or at least a roughly similar service that provides real-time cross-platform messaging. He points out some barriers standing in the way of Apple achieving such a goal, but a bigger one comes to mind: Apple likely isn’t interested in making...
Earlier today Nokia stock hit a 13-year-low. Despite what CEO Stephen Elop says, it is hard to reconcile the falling share price in what is arguably the hottest mobile market. The funny thing is that as a company they shouldn’t have been in this position. Started as a timber company, Nokia expanded to produce...
Voice recognition has long been billed as a kind of holy grail of mobile computing, but the reality is that the technology has been awkward, inaccurate and often unusable, resulting in misdialed phone calls and incomprehensible messages. So it’s no surprise it’s failed to garner much usage in mobile. Apple may be positioned to change...
Report on the “Syrian Electronic Army.” Helmi Norman, a research at Citizen Lab and Research Affiliate at the Berkman Center, has released a report entitled, “The Emergence of Open and Organized Pro-Government Cyber Attacks in the Middle East: The Case of the Syrian Electronic Army.” The report covers the “increased contestation in cyberspace among...
Y Combinator is already known as one of the most successful startup incubators in the tech industry. But just how successful is YC? And how successful are the 316 companies that have gone through the program? According to co-founder Paul Graham, very successful. The combined value of the top 21 startups that have graduated...
While much of the talk leading up to today was about Twitter’s move into the photo game, the bigger news is actually what they’ve done to their search product. They’ve completely rebuilt it. And while it may not be immediately apparent, the product should be much, much better than before. Twitter details the project...
Juniper Research released a report today that found that global mobile network operator revenues are set to exceed $1 trillion by 2016. This would be something to celebrate were it not the case that costs are forecasted to rise in accordance with revenues — and exceed them. The report says that mobile networks are...
Paul Graham gives YC’s success a hard think. Image: Bloomberg TV Paul Graham wrote a post analyzing the success of Y Combinator startups. Y Combinator is a six-year-old incubator; 316 startups have gone through the program. Graham recognizes that six years isn’t enough time to properly measure the success of a startup. The companies...
As Facebook grows, one concern for Google is that users could eventually turn away from traditional search and instead ask their friends for advice and answers. So far, that’s not happening according to the chart below from Bank Of America Merrill Lynch. When consumers want to research buying something, Google is still the primary...
Google has announced that it would be dropping support for older browsers such as Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7 and Safari 3 from August 1. Citing the need for advanced browsers to handle its new HTML5 features such as Gmail Desktop Notifications and Google Docs drag and drop file uploads, Google said it will only support...