If you’re having trouble achieving your goals, what you need might be a little social pressure. That’s the idea behind GoalHawk, a new startup in the current Teens in Tech incubator. Right now, GoalHawk is focused on fitness and programming. Granted, there are already plenty of social tools in these areas — that’s particularly...
The fear and loathing of RIM has been well-documented by this point. At the end of June, the company released its Q1 2013 earnings, which were more than a little disappointing, with RIM reporting its first operating loss in eight years, that it would be cutting 5K+ employees and that the release of its...
Divorce, alcoholism, and near worthless stock are the rewards for 12 hour days prepping for a game launch at Zynga, according to one anonymous Quora user who worked there after their company was bought by the gaming giant. The answer was called “butthurt” by one responder. “Sorry you’re not a millionaire after a year...
At least for the time being, Japan’s multibillion dollar gaming giant DeNA appears to be unaffected by the government’s recent inquiry into ‘gacha’ gaming mechanics. Profits were up 20 percent year-over-year to 10 billion yen ($127.3 million), and rose 6 percent quarter-over-quarter. Overall revenue was up 37 percent to $605.9 million. Japanese gaming companies...
A few weeks ago I suggested that Google’s Motorola Mobility acquisition was about more than just the patents—that in fact Google’s revenue growth was feeble in Q2 2012, once you removed Motorola from the numbers. That got me thinking about why Google’s core ad business isn’t growing like a forest fire any more. In...
There’s a scientific explanation for pretty much everything, you know. If you’ve ever wondered why and how cats almost always land on their feet, or paws, here’s the explanation that you’ve been waiting for. This gent decided to use a high-speed camera to record and dissect the flight of a falling cat (not the...
Those crazy kids in MIT’s Robust Robotics program have really done something. They designed a robotic airplane that can maneuver in tight spaces, avoiding obstacles, without using a GPS. To accomplish this feat of “autonomous plane navigation in confined spaces,” the team came up with a system to tell the plane where it is in...
“Oh my god, I love Uber. I take them all the time.” If you’re a young, urban, smartphone-owning individual, you’ve probably heard some variation of this phrase from a friend or acquaintance about Uber, the on-demand car service that’s become popular in cities like San Francisco. The app, which allows you to summon a...
AP Iran is planning on on joining the list of nations abandoning the global internet for their own national intranet, and officials say that the transition may be completed by 2013. Iran’s head of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology Reza Taqipour, speaking in a conference at Amir Kabir University, called the worldwide...
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