Yesterday Peter Kafka reported on acquisition talks between Twitter and Soundcloud. Turns out the deal wasn’t to be. According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter let an exclusive negotiating window expire,… Read more »
Last spring, I headed over the Microsoft campus to watch the unveiling of the Xbox One. It was a heady time for the company, having emerged victorious from the last console cycle,… Read more »
Last week, the Washington State Attorney General filed a suit under the provisions of the consumer protection act against the makers of a card playing game named Asylum. The reason for… Read more »
The cable industry is getting more excited about the smart home, but they still have to justify managed services to the mainstream. The classic do-it-yourself market is getting crowded. Read more »
Amazon knows how to move technology gear, and one of the ways it’s been doing it lately has been creating mini-stores within the broader Amazon.com site. Last year it launched a smart home store,… Read more »
One of the big trends in web and site-platforms in the past two to three years has been the integration of commerce capabilities. While Wordpress has made real progress in this… Read more »
Sonos has been the unquestioned leader in multiroom wireless audio for about a decade, and only in the last few years, it seems, have the big boys have woken up. But… Read more »
Interesting set of news from a couple of the key website platform players today. First, Squarespace announced a $40 million round, the first it’s taken since 2010. The big push for… Read more »
I had a chance to talk to Joe Dada, the founder of one of the world’s biggest home automation companies in INSTEON (the tech arm of SmartLabs). I asked Joe what… Read more »
News broke this weekend that an imminent refresh of Google’s TV platform is on its way. And while it’s old news that Google has long been moving away from Google TV… Read more »