The Kim Dotcom saga continues to unfold in New Zealand after the country’s prime minister ordered a full enquiry into claims that the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) unlawfully spied on the Megaupload founder. New Zealand PM John Key called the GCSB’s efforts to intercept Dotcom communications illegal after it emerged that the agency —...
Daily Archives: September 23, 2012
Meet 6 companies battling to be the first from Asia to crack the US
Asia is fast becoming a market that technology firms, particularly those operating in the mobile content space, are increasingly keen to target. China is now the world’s largest smartphone market, Japan and Korea are among the world’s hungriest consumers of mobile content and the rest of the continent is seeing impressive smartphone adoption growth,...
Biz Stone and Ev Williams On Why Founders Should Err On The Side Of Saying Too Much
Evan Williams and Biz Stone are probably still best known for their roles in co-founding Twitter, but what many people in the general public don’t realize is that Twitter was actually born as just a small project within a technology startup called The Obvious Corporation. In recent months, Williams and Stone (along with Jason...
Here’s What Goes Into Making Google Maps, Will Apple Be Able To Recalculate?
Everywhere you turned last week, there was another story about iOS 6 Maps. Some feel like it’s a great new direction for Apple, but people like me feel like we’re left with an ugly experience that shouldn’t have been introduced to the public in its current state. Yes, Google Maps was removed from iOS...
In Patch redesign, more focus on users — and less on editors
Aol’s struggling hyperlocal community site Patch is rolling out a redesign intended to encourage more social networking and discussion between members. The changes also reduce reliance on paid editors and freelance writers. The redesign will initially only show up on five Long Island Patch sites and will roll out to 50 more by the...
Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn Factory
A riot at has broken reportedly broken out a factory owned by Foxconn, the company famous for its production of Apple gadgets. Ed Flanagan of NBC News reports: Reports early Monday from China suggest that a mass disturbance or riots may have broken out at a Foxconn factory in the Chinese city of Taiyuan....
There’s A New Tool For Brands To Launch Instagram Campaigns
Instagram See Also Apple Store Employee: We’re Out Of iPhone 5s And Can’t Say When More Are In Because It Would Create ‘A Dangerous Situation’ Apple Put Out A Bunch Of New iPhone 5 Ads—And They’re Good The U.S. Spent $70K In Pakistan To Run This Ad Of Obama Condemning Anti-Islam Film With 100 million...
Meet Kevin Reynolds, The Man Behind The Most Mindblowing News Service In The World
Lisa Du, Business Insider Consumers of news demand three things: Speed Accuracy Cheapness Suppliers of news, however, face a trilemma, as they usually have to sacrifice one in order to produce the other two. You can have high-quality content that’s very accurate, but it will generally take awhile before it arrives (most newspapers, magazines,...
This Chrome extension tells you more about key people in articles as you read the news
Here’s a pro tip for Chrome power users: Check out Summer, an extension that highlights key people while you read the news. Currently supporting 60+ sites, including The Next Web, Summer lets you avoid having to search for noteworthy people by showing you detailed snapshots on the side of compatible sites. Summer works quite similarly to Rapportive,...
Iran Announces Plan To Launch Domestic Internet By March 2013 (And To Block Google Today)
It seems that the Iranian government is working to take even tighter control of the country’s already heavily-censored version of the Internet. The government said that it’s going to launch its own domestic Internet, and that the system will be fully operational by March 2013, according to Reuters and others (who, in turn, seem...