Google has acquired the mobile startup Bump. A source close to the transaction said it was worth at least $30 million, and perhaps as much as $60 million. Bump had raised about $20 million from backer

When working on a technology start up, much of your day is comprised in silence, clicking away at a computer. Whether you’re an engineer writing code, a designer working in Photoshop, or a marketer firing off emails, it’s easy to go hours, or even an entire day, without having a business-focused…

Amazon.com ( AMZN 0.08% ) was once the poster child of what happens when excitement about a company detaches from reality. The headlines "Amazon founder named TIME magazine's Person of the Year," and

Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of @Sonar 8 min read · Sep 17, 2013 -- For those unfamiliar, Sonar Media Inc. was a mobile app created to help make the world a friendlier place. Our mobile app

And voila! As of a few minutes ago, there’s an all-new Instapaper in the App Store. Instapaper 5.0 has a updated look and feel, new features for sorting, filtering, and managing your reading queue, an

Marissa Mayer is not a graphic designer. This is abundantly clear. She is an extraordinarily capable technologist, engineer, and executive, and she has made an enormous number of difficult decisions s

Picture by Scott Vandehey This morning I ran across a wonderful open source project called “ Crime doesn’t climb “, analyzing how crime rates vary with altitude in San Francisco. Then I reached this l

Everybody likes logos. Everybody wants their own logo. Everybody wants to make their own logo. Everybody has a computer and some fonts. Anybody can make a logo. What makes designers think they are so

Could the iPhone 5S’s new M7 chip be something of a trojan horse, leading the way for Apple’s wearable-tech debut? As expected, Apple’s Town Hall September 10th event went by without even a hint of a

About Me My name is Zachary Szewczyk. I grew up in North Carolina, Hawaii, Ohio, Minnesota, and Florida. At 13 I went to Canada, at 15 I spent three months in four south African countries, and at 20 I

Sometimes leaving your successful startup is the best thing for you 5 min read · Aug 8, 2013 -- Next week I will be leaving my full-time role at PlayHaven in one of the most expensive cities in the wo

So, tonight we unveiled the new Yahoo logo , concluding our 30 days of change . We hadn’t updated our logo in 18 years. Our brand, as represented by the logo, has been valued at as much as ~$10 billio

How do you think about the iPhone 3GS after the iPhone 4 is out? I have a hypothesis that it’s not what it seems. The standard logic is that the 3GS (which I will call the n-1 where n is the current p

The answer may lie in the way the iPad mini has been marketed. The pattern for iPhone pricing is pretty regular but that for the iPad shows a marked difference. The reason is, of course, that the iPad

Nope, Apple didn’t show off new Apple TV hardware yesterday. And Apple didn’t talk about new software for its Web video box, either. But it’s still coming. People familiar with the company’s plans sai

My assumption going into this, sixth iteration, of the iPhone was that we would see the expansion of the iPhone into two distinctly positioned products: a low-end C and a high-end S. The assumption wa

Meet the McMillans. They're like a lot of families -- young, unmarried, with two kids, a boy and a girl -- with one notable exception : They live every day like it's 1986. Not in some vague, listen-to

Product & Design 10 min read Take back your time: How to unlock the hidden value in your calendar There’s a bit of magic behind architecting a calendar that allows you to manage your time in an effect

September 8, 2013 — 3.00am Top apps for offline reading When you find an interesting article but don't have time to read it, save a link in Pocket or Instapaper for perusing at your leisure. Rather th

How much would you pay for a Netflix subscription? For some people, paying $8 a month for Netflix is a steal. Others aren't so willing to open their wallets. Both types of consumers represent a kind o

You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can't find enough workers in those fields, and the country's competitive edge i

3: Who Told Us What We Think We Know A UN inspection team that visited the site of the massacre on Monday, August 26, almost 5 days after the event. Why was the inspection so late? As a spokesman for

The gram of marijuana Forbes bought with bitcoins on the Silk Road black market. Researcher Sarah ... [+] Meikeljohn was able to identify the purchase by following our bitcoins' path into the Silk Roa

In Enemies Within , the new book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman on the NYPD's indiscriminate and probably illegal spying program, reference is brie

Engineering is the bottleneck in (Deep Learning) Research January 17, 2017 January 17, 2017 Warning: This a rant post containing a bunch of unorganized thoughts. When I was in graduate school working on NLP and information extraction I spent most of my time coding up research ideas. That’s what grad…

With less than a month left until Apple finally takes the wraps off of its next-generation iPhone 5S and possibly the “iPhone 5C” as well — not that there’s much left to unwrap — the company has now i

It used to be hard work to get a video to play in a browser. A site could link directly to a video file for download, but that takes readers away from the site and out of their browsers. You could, as

The Syrian war has been a slowly unfolding catastrophe, one that has embroiled several of the world's major powers. Early Saturday, the United States and its British and French allies conducted airstrikes on three targets outside Damascus and Homs in response to an alleged chemical attack by the…

I hate the Pumping Lemma for regular languages. It’s a complicated way to express an idea that is fundamentally very simple, and it isn’t even a very good way to prove that a language is not regular.

In Here Is New York , E.B. White opens with this sentence: “On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.” Sixty-four years have pas

September 3, 2013 Beyond Flat It seems mobile UIs are converging. Next month, millions of iPhone users will download a flatter version of iOS , one that doesn’t mimic real-life objects. Skeuomorphism

Early this morning Microsoft acquired Nokia for €3.79 billion (plus €1.65 billion for patents). It is a deal that makes no sense. While industry observers love to pontificate about mergers and acquisi