Apple stock got clobbered again today, falling 4% to $510. That’s the lowest close for the stock since its recent swoon began in September. (It’s also a level that Apple first breached on the way up last winter. The stock is still up sharply this year, having entered the year at about $400.) What’s...
Daily Archives: December 14, 2012
CHART OF THE DAY: Android Completely Owns The Chinese Smartphone Market (GOOG, AAPL)
This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here. Android’s share of the Chinese smartphone market ended the third quarter at 90 percent. According to Analysys International, Android’s share is up from 83 percent a...
4 Stupidly Simple But Wildly Successful New Inventions
Quirky See Also Quirky’s Founder Calls The $68 Million He Just Raised A ‘Scarlet Letter’ This 24-Year-Old’s Startup, Quirky, Just Nabbed Another $68 Million … And Mary Meeker This Guy’s New Crowdfunding Site Could Be The Next Big Thing In Retail Innovation Today we visited a startup based in New York City called Quirky....
Renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil joins Google to work on machine learning and language processing
Renowned author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil, has announced that he’s joining Google to work on new projects that revolve around machine learning and language processing. He starts work at the search engine as its new Director of Engineering starting December 17. Kurzweil says that he’s “thrilled to be teaming up with Google to...
America’s Venture Capital Conference: And the winners are…
The America’s Venture Capital Conference (AVCC) has unveiled the winners it selected during its 2012 edition, which was dedicated to “Data, Design Dollars,” and took place in Miami over the last two days. Supported by the Florida International University’s (FIU) Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center and its College of Business, it brought together around 400 US-based and Latin...
AskMeOut’s teen founders win HackDay, may start a long-term relationship with Miami
Brazilian online dating project AskMeOut is the winner of HackDay‘s latest edition, the competition’s jury announced at the America’s Venture Capital Conference (AVCC) while immediately granting the team a $30k award. In addition, AskMeOut’s three co-founders have now confirmed they will spend their summer in Miami to develop their product – and therefore earn...
What Flickr Really Needs To Copy From Instagram
Love applying moody effects to your iPhone photos? Well, you’re in luck – after this week, you can do that on just about every image app you’ve ever downloaded. In the latest lap of the overwrought social media arms race, Twitter and Flickr have updated their mobile apps to offer photo filters, just like good...
Top 10 Epic Tech-Gadget Failures
Tech gadgets come and go. Some succeed, most fail. Most failures disappear without a trace, while others are so awful that we can’t seem to forget them. And some failures set the stage for future innovations. This list of the 10 most epic tech-gadget failures is by nature subjective. Some of these epic...
Ray Kurzweil, Father Of The Singularity, Is Going To Work At Google
Ray Kurzweil, one of the most wide-eyed futurists around, is going to work at Google. Kurzweil is one of the foremost authors responsible for the popularity of the notion of technological singularity, the idea that artificial intelligence will someday (soon) reach a crescendo of self-improvement, kicking off an endlessly growing planetary intelligence and allowing...
What does Yahoo want with Summly?
It has barely been available for one month, but mobile news aggregator Summly has clearly impressed Marissa Mayer. AllThingsD reported that the Yahoo CEO is doing due diligence to acquire the app created by 17-year-old London developer Nick D’Aloisio — and we understand the report is correct. The new Yahoo CEO is personally pushing...