Atlassian Scott Farquhar, Atlassian Imagine being on a first-name basis with the leader of your country. That’s a threshold Scott Farquhar crossed a few weeks ago and it felt surreal, he told Business Insider. Farquhar is the 32-year-old cofounder of Atlassian, a software company based in Australia. Last month, the country’s prime minister, Julia...
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iZettle, generally known as Europe’s answer to Square, is finally being launched in the UK. The payment system that hooks up a card reader to mobile devices is being pushed as a saviour for British small businesses. The mini chip-card readers are being brought to the UK through an exclusive launch with Everything Everywhere...
Google today announced some changes to its search page for users in the United States, with a cleaner interface containing fewer elements. This follows moves to simplify and refocus search result layouts on tablets and smartphones in the last year. The safe search dropdown, for instance, is nowhere in sight. By removing ads from...
Microsoft has released an update to its Xbox Live application today, giving it the SmartGlass moniker, as well as the look and feel of the Windows 8 app. Available for the iPhone and the iPad, Xbox SmartGlass lets your device work with the Xbox 360 console in order to control what content you’re watching...
In a move that’s sure to be considered as brilliant as slapping the plans for a Death Star into a small R2 droid to deliver them halfway across a galaxy far, far away, the U.S. cable industry is setting a research center in the heart of Silicon Valley to see if it can tap...
Microsoft is reportedly building its own “Xbox Surface” gaming tablet, which could give the company a true mobile gaming strategy. Microsoft officials declined to comment, but the rumored 7-inch tablet could incorporate a custom ARM processor as well as “high-bandwidth RAM suitable for gaming tasks,” The Verge reported on Tuesday. In June, the site published...
As on Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, a number of apps allowing users to download free and copyrighted music have cropped up on Microsoft’s Windows Phone. Windows Phone apps including Audiotica, Music And Ringtones Downloader and Sky Music all allow users to download music – including, it should be said, legally available tunes as well...
It might seem a little early to start talking about potential Facebook acquisitions considering the social network just completed its $736-million purchase of Instagram, and its share price is still 40 percent lower than it was when the company went public. But I think Facebook should start thinking hard (assuming it isn’t already) about...