Twitter/@TheSharkDaymond It’s pretty safe to say that after three full seasons of the ABC hit show “Shark Tank,” Daymond John has seen almost all there is to see when it comes to pitching an idea. Now into the fourth season, the “sharks” are facing some of the most passionate, intense entrepreneurs yet, but not...
Still on the fence about whether or not you should get an iPhone 5? While most people would say “yes” to everything Apple and hail the iPhone 5 as the king of smartphones (including us!), we’re gonna play devil’s advocate and find reasons against buying a new iPhone 5. Reason number one not to...
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Intel has delayed the introduction of its 14nm process at its Leixlip plant in Dublin by some six months and is sticking with 22nm for now. As a result, the company has sent home some 600 Irish staff who were being trained in the US, according to The Irish Times. The 600 Irish staff...
Google yesterday held Google Ventures event and today shared some new figures. To sum up, Google Ventures is dedicating $1.5 billion to invest in startups over the next five years, boosting the size of its fund by 50 percent, from $200 million to $300 million a year. The move puts Google’s venture capital investment...
According to a series of tweets from Todd Brix, Microsoft’s Windows Phone Apps and Store lead, Windows Phone 8 appears to have heavily piqued the curiosity of developers. To save you the horror of reading through tweets in reverse order, TNW has taken the facts that Mr. Brix released and has put them into a readable format....
Just in time for the 18th Communist Party Congress, all Google services have suddenly been blocked in China. Traffic fell off Friday according to the Google Transparency Report. “We’ve checked and there’s nothing wrong on our end,” Google said in a statement. So what is wrong, then? Search, Gmail and Maps are all blocked,...
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Microsoft has showed off research that takes us significantly closer to a Star Trek-style universal translator: natural language translation, in real time, in the user’s own voice. The demonstration by Microsoft chief research officer Rick Rashid (see embedded video below) at Microsoft Research Asia’s 21st Century Computing event was part of a speech to about 2,000...
Players of Call of Duty: Black Ops II will now be able to livestream their gameplay to YouTube directly from their Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game consoles. While casual players may be interested in posting their games, this is big news for the lucrative gaming-commentary industry on YouTube, and for the eSports scene...
Millenials get a bad rap for being entitled, lazy and self-centered. The people at USEED, a new crowdfunding site for college students, have a different view: they believes millenials are eager to show initiative if only they’re given an environment that encourages it. “Students from all majors are interested in being entrepreneurial but they crave...