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Android. Yahoo. Tumblr. Facebook. Google. Some of the biggest names in tech are well documented, but there are still stories to be told. Like, what really happened around the time of Facebook's less-than-stellar IPO? Is Android really 'winning'? What happened to get Yahoo! to this point? Where did the ideas that spawned Tumblr come from? How (and why) did Google kill off Google Talk and Google+ Messenger to create Hangouts?Intrigued? The answers lie in the articles included in this installment ...
The latest craze in the world of tech is to build a version of Silicon Valley in different regions. Africa has its tech-infused locations that begin and end with the word "silicon". Do they really need to recreate what the Americans have done though?TechCrunch's editor-at-large, Mike Butcher doesn't seem to think so. Butcher suggested to the Net Prophet audience that another way could be conceived when building a tech ecosystem."We cannot reproduce 50 years of work. You just can't ...
I’m not going debate nor justify the volatility of Bitcoin and how it may or may not stabilize. I’m not going to discuss whether it will survive or whether it will be the defacto global currency. I’m not going to go into depth about how secure (or unsecure) Bitcoin is and whether or not it should be regulated.What I am going to talk about is what I like to call the Napster Effect. Today, Napster isn’t the default for sharing, ...
I’m beginning to think we might as well just consider Huawei and ZTE, given that they seem to pop up together constantly in the news. And, unfortunately for both companies, it’s never something good.When we last checked in with the dynamic duo it was because they were (and still are) under investigation by Indian Intelligence authorities, and now there’s more bad news for the Chinese telecoms in the form of this Reuters report suggesting the European Union may levy ...
When you snapped, cropped and filtered your last latté, did you stop to think about the company behind the retro photo app, and how it got to where it is today? Perhaps, instead, you took a moment to appreciate the simplicity of a touchscreen, and imaged what a life without physical keys would be like. But perhaps you should be thinking about what life would be like without the internet, on another planet.Confused? These are just a few of ...
Ethical hackers. Third party service providers. Security breaches. These all sound a lot like party favours at an event held by uber geeks at a tech hub, not issues that face the average business. If you think that your business is safe from being hacked, breached or attacked, you are wrong. Here are five things your business needs to know about how its security is threatened every day…1. Weak passwordsHonestly, you’d think that by now the whole password problem would ...
BitTorrent -- the company behind the file format that users have been gleefully using to share and download pirated content for years -- has been working hard recently to try to make sure you associate something other than copyright infringement with its name. Its latest effort is called BitTorrent Bundles, and it's designed to let brands get content to the fans, but also receive something in return.The alpha version of Bundles is being tested though a collaboration with Ultra -- ...
You've probably seen it a thousand times, but do you really notice the subtle lines on Facebook beckoning you to post that photo, give it your information and update your status? Believe it or not, those little boxes are a major consideration for the social network, and mistakes could affect your posts. If you're not posting, you could miss out on a job opportunity: yes, recruitment agencies are starting to harness online data -- including that from social media -- ...
Google Maps capture all sorts of things -- like people getting on with their daily lives blissfully unaware of the fact that something is watching them. Sometimes it also captures the more grizzly and questionable things some of us get up to.Although the people at Google Maps Street View maintain that they respect people’s privacy and explain that “individuals and license plates are blurred. We have developed cutting-edge face and license plate blurring technology that is applied to all Street ...
This quarter Amazon reported a US$82-million net profit on US$16.1-billion in sales for its fiscal first quarter and warned that it might lose more than one-third of a billion dollars (US$340-million) in its current quarter.The unremakable financial performance, and the warning of a large loss, didn't upset shareholders by much. According to the Financial Times:Its shares oscillated in after-hours trading once its results were released but settled down 2.9%.As Amazon steps up competition against giants such as Apple, against ...
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