ragesoss/Flickr See Also Aaron Swartz’s Girlfriend Accuses MIT Of Dragging Its Feet On Investigating His Suicide ‘Anonymous’ Hacker Explains Why He Fled The US MIT Hoax ‘Tipster’ Said Gunman Wanted To Avenge Aaron Swartz’s Death Famed Internet activist Aaron Swartz was honored today by the American Library Association. He became the first person to...
Formspring, a once-buzzy site that counted more than 28 million users for its ask-me-a-question service, was the Snapchat of its day—an Internet service popular with teens and misunderstood by adults, and well-funded by eager venture capitalists. Now, four years and $14 million later, CEO Ade Olonoh announced that the company is shuttering its doors...
Flickr / Financial Times Photos See Also Dropbox Is Buying Mega-Hyped Email Startup Mailbox 528,000 People Are Still Waiting In Line For Mailbox, The 37-Day-Old App Dropbox Just Acquired We Talked To A Mailbox Investor Shortly After Today’s Sale, And He Said: ‘Holy S—! These Guys Actually Did It!’ TechCrunch is hearing that Dropbox,...
A number of Uber drivers of their ‘Black Car’ service are striking this afternoon in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. Those drivers participating have parked in front of Uber’s headquarters. They intend on striking – not providing rides to Uber users – during the rush hour period, and perhaps the weekend. The drivers...
It’s been a bumpy road for Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s Android-based set-top box, but the device is finally hitting the market, though initally with a trial run in three mainland cities: Shanghai, Hangzhou and Changsha. The company sells its hardware in batches online, but the initial group of Xiaomi Box devices, which goes out...
A coordinated effort from Chinese state media to knock Apple down a notch or two on “World Consumer Rights Day” has gone awry after celebrities were caught posting what appear to be staged complaints about the company, Offbeat China reports. State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) has a tradition of marking March 15th by...
Copyright. Innovation. Free speech. These firestarting issues and the relationship between creation, law and technology were the topics in a Sunday panel that just may have been the sleeper hit of SXSW. Speakers included Andrew Bridges, partner at Fenwick West LLP, Margot Kaminski, the executive director at the Information Society Project at Yale Law...
If you tuned into the Presidential debates this past Fall you may have caught the one moderated by CNN personality Candy Crowley. Remarkably, it was the first presidential debate moderated by a female in 20 years. Wonder how that dry spell ended? Because of a petition created at Change.org. Debate organizers were influenced by...
Legislators have introduced bipartisan bills in both chambers of Congress to reaffirm consumers’ right to unlock their smartphones once they’re off contract. But the bills stop well short of any serious, permanent change. The Senate version of the legislation is S. 517, the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which was introduced March...
What if you could custom order furniture for your home while paying Ikea prices for it? That’s the goal of Fabsie, a U.K. startup that wants to take the promise of custom manufacturing enabled by 3D printing, laser cutters and CNC routers and match that with the needs of everyday consumers. James McBennett, the...