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eBay Q3 Earnings Beats Expectations Following Its Split From PayPal

Oct 21, 8:56PM

eBay app for Apple Watch eBay reported its third-quarter earnings today — its first as a separate company from PayPal — and beat investor expectations with earnings of 43 cents per share and $2.1 billion in revenue. Investors were looking for $2.09 billion in revenue and earnings of 40 cents per share. Read More



Barnes & Noble Announces A Waterproof Nook

Oct 21, 7:59PM

barnes-and-noble-nook-glowlight-plus The Nook is now available in a waterproof version and is the first Nook to sport user profiles, because, you know, couples that read together stay together. Called the Nook GlowLight Plus (because it has a screen that glows), the new version costs $130 and is now available. Read More



Apple's iOS 9.1 Shuts Down The Pangu Hacking Team's Jailbreak

Oct 21, 7:58PM

pangu Well, that was fast! Only days after the first public jailbreak for iOS 9 devices hit the web, it appears that Apple has closed two of the exploits used by the Chinese hacking team Pangu, whose untethered jailbreak allowed users to jailbreak nearly all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices running iOS versions 9.0 through 9.0.2. Read More



Twitter's Periscope Goes Down During Flight Keynote

Oct 21, 7:55PM

down-periscope I was hoping to share some of the final bits of the Twitter Flight conference with you from my front row seat live and in beautiful mobile color, but was unable to. Seems like Periscope is having a bit of an issue right now that’s not letting anyone stream. Sucky timing, for sure. Read More



Lisbon's Startup Scene Heats Up At Our TechCrunch Meetup

Oct 21, 6:58PM

CRyYM-wXIAAhooS This week we held the first ever TechCrunch Lisbon Meetup and Pitch-off at a rooftop bar over-looking this beautiful, ancient city which in the last few years has been coming to life as a vibrant startup hub in this part of southern Europe. Thanks to the good offices of local accelerator Beta-i and a bar stacked by Android market startup Aptoide, around 200 people turned up to hear the pitches… Read More



Twitter Announces New Tools, Partnerships For Finding And Publishing Embedded Tweets

Oct 21, 6:49PM

twitter michael ducker Online publishers are about to get a lot more options for embedding tweets in their stories, with Twitter announcing a new “ecosystem” of products around embedded tweets today at its Flight developer conference. The curation side of that ecosystem includes existing Twitter products like TweetDeck and Curator, which helps publishers find the best tweets to feature in their content. Read More



How Tech Companies Are Celebrating Back To The Future Day

Oct 21, 6:47PM

giphy Great Scott! It’s finally here! Today is October 21st, 2015…the day that Marty McFly traveled to in Back to the Future Part II. To make it even better, all of your favorite tech companies have decided to get in on the action by featuring McFly-themed easter eggs and promotions all day long. Click through to check them out. Read More



Twitter To Let Brands Link Up Users' Twitter Handles With Their Customer Accounts For Customer Care

Oct 21, 6:37PM

IMG_20151021_113531 Yesterday we wrote about Twitter’s interest in building up its platform as a place for businesses and brands to manage customer care, and today Twitter unveiled some of the early features of that effort. At its Flight developer conference, the company showed how it was working with Fabric and Gnip to help businesses run customer services over Twitter. Early users include hotel chain Hilton. Read More



Twitter Introduces Gnip Insights APIs To Help Brands Better Understand Audiences And Content

Oct 21, 6:33PM

gnip-twitter Gnip is the company that has been keeping archives of every tweet going back to the first one in 2006. Twitter knew how important this data was to marketers and companies so it acquired the company and now has a fleet of APIs that it’s making bank on. Most recently it opened up instant access to all of those historical tweets. Today, during its developer conference Twitter Flight, the… Read More



YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don't Sign Its Red Subscription Deal

Oct 21, 6:29PM

Youtube Offer YouTube made its top video creators an offer they literally couldn’t refuse, or they’d have their content disappear. Today YouTube confirmed that any “partner” creator who earns a cut of ad revenue but doesn’t agree to sign its revenue share deal for its new YouTube Red $9.99 ad-free subscription will have their videos hidden from public view on both the… Read More



Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Attempts To Clear Up The Bad Blood With WSJ

Oct 21, 6:24PM

Elizabeth_Holmes_Photo1 The energy in the room was palpable as audience members waited to see if Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes would really show up this morning for her onstage interview at the Wall Street Journal Live conference. But show up, she did. Holmes took the hot seat in the midst of a very public brawl with the Journal, which published a couple of articles alleging Theranos wasn’t using its own… Read More



The inviita iOS App Builds You A City Tour Automagically

Oct 21, 6:20PM

inviita As someone who travels a lot I’ve been trying out apps that can build tours around a city. CreateTrips is a social trip planner that offers travelers and locals travel guides, maps, reviews and a few more things. It’s raised $2.18 million in two rounds from five investors. But unfortunately it literally leaves me to do all the heavy lifting. And in this space, you pretty much only… Read More



Twitter Adds 8 New Services To Its Fabric Platform, Which Is Used By 225,000+ Developers

Oct 21, 6:04PM

img_20151021_102344_720 Fabric, Twitter’s toolkit for developers to build apps on its platform, launched last October. At Twitter’s Flight developer conference, its been announced that the toolkit is getting some nice goodies. 225,000+ developers are using Fabric on a billion mobile devices. Read More



Garmin Releases Three New Exercise Watches To Keep You Unflabby

Oct 21, 5:55PM

scaled.Forerunner630-Series_HR_30266 Another day, another fitness device that can track your distance, pace, heart rate, and nag you when you don’t exercise. This time we have the Garmin 230, 235, and 630, three great smartwatches with exercise freaks in mind. The 230 and 235 have colorful screens and the 235 includes built-in heart rate tracking technology. They can connect to a phone to bring up notifications and it… Read More



Twitter Wants To Make It Easier To Tweet Content From Apps

Oct 21, 5:55PM

IMG_20151021_105245 When you’re reaching a new fitness goal or hitting the high score in a game, Twitter wants your followers to know — even if it’s happening in a different app. Today at the Twitter Flight conference, the company rolled out two new features for app developers to make it easier to share content from apps to Twitter. One is a new Twitter composer that allows people to preview… Read More



Twitter's Fabric Announces Unity SDK Support, Error Logging On iOS And tvOS

Oct 21, 5:49PM

1445379736517 Today at Twitter Flight, the company’s developer conference, Twitter announced two new features launched by Fabric’s Crashlytics Labs, the R&D arm of Twitter’s mobile SDK. First, Fabric announced that it will introduce beta support for the Unity SDK, the popular cross-platform game engine for desktop and mobile games. After installing the Fabric plug-in, users can… Read More



Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes To Developers, Says He Wants To "Reset" Relations

Oct 21, 5:46PM

22364025185_7e368fa3d8_b (1) Twitter’s epic bust up with developers several years ago was one of the bigger bumps in the company’s rocky history, so now, as the social media company is working to reboot the business under new CEO Jack Dorsey, it kicked off its big developer event with a key message: an apology for Twitter’s past behavior, and a commitment to try to make it better. In reference to… Read More



Apple Updates iOS, watchOS And OS X, Including Support For New Emoji (And The Middle Finger)

Oct 21, 5:34PM

IMG_0068 The next major update to Apple’s mobile operating system since the debut of version 9.0 released in September, is now rolling out. In iOS 9.1, Apple is introducing a number of new features and improvements, including one involving those GIF-like “Live Photos.” However, the addition that most users will be excited about is iOS 9.1’s inclusion of new emoji characters… Read More



Voyo Connects Your Car To The Cloud

Oct 21, 5:33PM

b0ce07f2958fd1b0f33c5d871e553660_original Now that connected car startups are now thick on the ground, it takes a special amount of pizzaz to stand out. Thankfully Voyo has amped up the jazz hands and is producing a small device that can truly change the way we drive. What does this little dongle do? It can interface with your car’s computer system via the OBD-II as well as via your relay panel. By connecting these two port… Read More



YouTube Red Subscription Will Include Original Series From PewDiePie, CollegeHumor, And More

Oct 21, 5:32PM

Scare PewDiePie YouTube wants to use exclusive series and movies from its biggest stars to differentiate its new $9.99 ad-free video and on-demand music subscription service YouTube Red. Launching next year, these YouTube Original Series And Movies include Scare PewDiePie, where YouTube’s top video game commentator gets dragged through terrifying real-life experiences, Sing It!, a scripted comedy… Read More




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