California Regulator Proposes New Ride-Sharing Rules In A Victory For Uber, Lyft And SideCar Startups such as Uber, Lyft and SideCar have had a new victory in fighting their way back into California. The California Utilities Commission has made a proposal that will allow the startups to operate in the state, as long as the … Read more
Sergey Brin’s Younger Brother Co-Founds Butter The 26 year old younger brother of the Google co-founder Sergey Brin founded the new startup Butter. He has spent the lsat few months in a borrowed office space with college pal Jon Li, building their startup. The possibility of brotherly rivalry is also very low, they aren’t setting … Read more
How Apple Gets At Home Workers To Work Recently Yahoo and Best Buy announced the end to their work at home programs. This left many people scratching their heads. The big argument was that perhaps these companies don’t really know what they are doing and don’t know how to manage remote employees or contractors. Recently, … Read more
Digital Detoxing Alone Is A Bad Idea A recent study polled over 100 people that went on digital detoxing ranging from 2 to 30 days. The poll results were quite interesting, says the lead researchers Aaron Wong. Digital detoxing alone can lead to all sorts of issues, including panic attacks, amongst other things. Aaron says … Read more
Zynga drops online gambling plans in U.S. The company, Zynga, best known for it’s online social game FarmVille had planned to launch a massive online gambling business. Since the announcement of the Nevada gambling application on Thursday, the shares are up more than 50% on the stock market. As part of an effort to stabilize … Read more
First Mobile Devices Running Firefox OS Are Out The first mobile devices to run Firefox OS are out in the market. However, it’s too early to say how well Mozilla’s new fidgeting system will perform. Skeptics are saying that it won’t be adopted as well as anticipated by the web browsing giant. Here are a … Read more
SETT New Blogging Platform SETT is a blogging platform that’s looking to emphasize community, so that new users can find a right audience immediately and long-time bloggers can interact with higher-quality commenters and contributors. Aside from features that are now standard these days like a news feed of content and WYSIWYG editing, SETT has a … Read more
Battery Powered Fitness Band Sync Burn Fitness bands are a dime a dozen these days. Everyone has one, it seems, from audio manufacturers like Jawbone to upstarts likeFitbit and Basis. Now the EB Sports Group, a company that makes fitness devices under a number of brands including Everlast and Men’s Health. I’ve historically been wary of “no name” bands … Read more
3D Printing Your Own Print Cartridges Who would have thought that you could actually 3D print your own print cartridges, fill them with ink and be ready to go? To be clear the company, InkFactory, is fooling no one here. The ability to print an outer casing for an inkjet printer cartridge is fairly limited … Read more
Verizon presents the $99 Motorola Droid Mini, $199 Droid Ultra, and the $299 Droid Maxx at an event in New York. The biggest success will most likely be the Droid Ultra, making it the thinnest 4G LTE mobile. It will have a 7.18mm thick chassis. The 5-inch 720p display will make the screen a major … Read more
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