Video livestreaming app Meerkat is the tech world’s latest darling, but its co-founder isn’t so sure it will outlast the hype. If you missed the initial Meerkat news wave, here’s a quick… Read more »
Last month, I reported on an interesting new mobile service from Italy’s Zeromobile called WhatSim that promised unlimited WhatsApp messaging anywhere in the world for just €10 ($11.60) a year. Well,… Read more »
Earlier this month, four U.K. lords tried to sneak the text of a rejected piece of legislation popularly known as the Snooper’s Charter into a new anti-terror bill. After debate in… Read more »
Deep learning is all the rage among the tech scene right now, and that’s more a result of its utility than because it sounds cool. Some questioned the feasibility of the… Read more »
A collection of Gigaoms’ readership and their views of the impact that Google+ had on its competitors. In most cases many felt that their was no impact but with Facebook and… Read more »
I somehow completely missed the release of Mozilla’s Open Badges 1.0 back in March. The concept is an open, federated model for the creation and sharing of badges that represent skills… Read more »
Bloomberg has had serious messaging market dominance for the traders and funds managers whose companies pay the $20,000/year for Bloomberg’s terminals and related services. But the industry has many others that… Read more »
Skype turned 10 years old today. After disrupting the telecommunications industry, Skype is facing an uncertain future and increased competition. It is increasingly being assimilated into Microsoft and its enterprise communications… Read more »
A lot of ink (pun intended) has been spilled on why Jeff Bezos bought the Post, how much Jeff Bezos loves reading and what Jeff Bezos will do with the media… Read more »
The New York startup ecosystem will get a big boost from the $1.1 billion sale of Tumblr to Yahoo. The exit, one of the biggest New York has seen, shows that… Read more »