It’s been a big week for Flipboard’s Google-related announcements. On Tuesday, the company revealed Google+ integration was coming to its social magazine, and today, the app is officially launching on all Android devices, including the Kindle Fire and the Nook. The Google+ integration, as well as newly added YouTube integration, is arriving today as well....
Flipboard, the popular iOS app that lets you swipe through blogs, news feeds, Twitter and Facebook like a magazine, has officially come to Google’s Android platform. It’s coming to Android in a big way though, as it will be bundled with Samsung’s new Galaxy S III phone in the US. We knew that most...
There’s a new startup accelerator in town, and by town, I mean Estonia. The accelerator is called GameFounders, and it’s looking to accept up to 10 gaming startups in its inaugural class. GameFounders says it’s the first European accelerator to focus on game developers. It’s offering an investment of 15,000 euros in exchange for...
Ap China and Japan have argued for years about the sovereignty of a group of islands in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. The conflict is largely to do with wartime history and underground gas reserves, but things have become especially heated recently — just last month...
City of San Francisco See Also Airbnb Home Rentals Aren’t Even Legal In Its Hometown Of San Francisco Here’s Why Renting Your Home Through Airbnb Could Be Illegal This Renter Made $14,000 In 2 Years With AirBnB Airbnb is really smart to start getting its founders out talking to members of the press—like the dinner...
Sometimes you need to use your cell phone to call contacts who you might not want to be able to reach you on your cellphone. Or perhaps you are on vacation or travel ling and need to forward your calls. There are simple ways manage your phones call options including hiding your Caller ID...
There’s nothing worse than making a typo when you’ve just left the “perfect” comment on someone’s Facebook status update. Turns out, Facebook feels the same way. The company told TNW that it has just started rolling out the ability to edit your own comments. It will be available to everyone in the next couple...
The Twitter team reported on their blog Thursday evening that the day’s intermittent outages were caused by a cascading bug in one of its infrastructure components, not “a hack or our new office or Euro 2012 or GIF avatars, as some have speculated today.” The outage, which hit in the morning and continued intermittently throughout the day, enraged users, who took...
Airbnb Airbnb invited us and some other members of the press to meet CEO Brian Chesky, CTO Nate Blecharczyk, and chief product officer Joe Gebbia in a private home in San Francisco. In fact, it was one of the 3,000-plus places in the city that are listed on Airbnb, a service which allows pretty...
Twitter is rapidly becoming Wall Street’s favorite source of breaking news and first analysis. Bloomberg’s Tom Keene recently had this to say about the “Twitter Vigilantes“: “The Internet-first crew pummeled Main Stream Media with immediate paragraphs of perspective, then delivered substantial and smart articles as MSM issued tentative first reporting.” For the most part,...