You might have heard of Uber and its quest to transform the way we transport ourselves from one place to another. You might have also heard that the company has faced some challenges along the way, challenges to which it didn’t and still doesn’t flinch. You also also might have heard that the company...
Intel announced today that its sales for the third quarter will be lower than expected due to a decline in demand. Intel microprocessors use the x86 architecture found in most PCs and Macs today. Instead of $14.2 billion, Intel now anticipates $13.8 billion in revenue. It is not due to competition as AMD faces...
The Kindle Fire HD is a big deal. Big. It has rather excellent specs — a 1280×800 7-inch display, TI OMAP processor, dual stereo speakers, and dual-antennae Wifi (with MIMO) — and it comes at a ridiculously low price: $199. If the original Fire was competitive (and trust me, it was), this one is...
Email More Owen Thomas, Business Insider Apple is five days away from launching its next version of the iPhone. The site: The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a theater space in downtown San Francisco that’s part of the Moscone Center convention complex. When Business Insider visited the site today, workers were already putting...
Following the controversial passage of CISPA in the House, and the failure of progress on the issue of cybersecurity in the Senate, talk began that the President might act through executive action. The Press Secretary mentioned that the President would “do absolutely everything we can to better protect our nation against today’s cyber threats.”...
At Google’s I/O developer conference in June, the company held a “Develop for Good” hackathon as a collaboration between the I/O conference and Google’s philanthropy arm, Google.org. On Friday, Google picked the winners from the hackathon in three main categories: Ideas, Politics and Elections and Green. The selection of winners highlighted some interesting projects where companies...
VMware is now officially a Gold member of the OpenStack Foundation, along with Intel and NEC. The OpenStack board met Friday afternoon to consider their applications, which were held over from the last seven-hour board meeting. Judging by the Twitter accounts, the meeting was not without drama — some participants were apparently surprised and nonplussed that their...
The Wall Street Journal has just published an interesting piece that claims Apple’s iPhone 5 will be compatible with “the fastest wireless networks around the world”. The next iPhone has been strongly rumored to be LTE capable, and that’s what we’ve heard as well. But there have been questions raised about worldwide compatibility, largely...
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Offline classes and workshops marketplace TomoClases is now available in Mexico as tomoclases.mx, the Start-Up Chile alum announced during TNW Conference Latin America’s Startup Battle last month. In addition, its platform now lets users advertise and find online courses. While TomoClases is similar to Skillshare in many aspects, its ambition goes well beyond cloning a...