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Pinterest has a better chance building a big commerce business than Facebook and Twitter doIt took five years, but Pinterest is finally adding a buy button to its social network.
Updated July 21, 20222 min read
It took five years, but Pinterest is finally adding a buy button to its social network.
Researchers already are demonstrating the incredible capabilities of 5G, the next mobile wireless standard that has been able to reach speeds of 1 terabit per second—about 65,000 times faster than the average 4G download speed. The technology is expected to come online by 2020 in the UK and 2025 in the US.
For a fledgling startup, finding an office in San Francisco can be a real nightmare. Rents are now climbing past $60 a square foot, second only to Manhattan in the US, and occupancy rates are the lowest in the country, according to brokerage firm CBRE.
Ellen Pao is ready for round two.
When Cheryl Jerozal first attended Google’s I/O developer conference four years ago, she felt isolated.
Google and Levi’s are teaming up to create interactive clothing.
A drag-down notification center. Predictive typing. Third-party keyboards. Apple’s been known to liberally borrow from Android, but it was the other way around today when Google announced support for fingerprint readers in the next major release of its mobile operating system.
As anticipated, Google made a flurry of announcements during the two-and-a-half-hour keynote at its I/O developer conference. The company debuted the new capabilities of its next Android release, along with a photo-sharing app with unlimited storage; updates to its lo-fi virtual-reality headset made of cardboard; and much, much more.
Google’s biggest event of the year is finally here.
Snapchat famously spurned a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook in 2013 to strike out on its own, and that meant finding a way to make money off its ephemeral messaging platform.
Microsoft, Facebook, and Yahoo all had their chance. Now it’s Google’s turn to make its case for why developers should build their apps using its platform and services.
In 1998, when Max Levchin was building what would become PayPal, he did it specifically for one device: the Palm Pilot. So it’s safe to say that the digital payments platform has envisioned itself as a mobile company from the very beginning.
Unicorns—the nickname given to startups worth at least $1 billion—are becoming more commonplace these days. Though more than 100 companies joined the billion-dollar-startup club last year, it’s rare for even the most renowned investing firms to mint more than a handful of them.
Robert De Niro put it bluntly to the graduating class of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts: “You’re fucked.”
US Securities and Exchange Commission filings have a way of making people’s eyes glaze over. But Obvious Ventures, an investment concern started by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, managed to infuse a bit of fun into what otherwise would be a dull disclosure form.
Apple is reportedly set to refresh its upcoming mobile and desktop operating systems with a new font called San Francisco.
Thin lines be damned. Apple is reportedly getting ready to replace Helvetica Neue, the quintessentially modernist typeface from Switzerland, with its own font called San Francisco.
A federal grand jury has charged six Chinese citizens, including two professors, with economic espionage and the theft of trade secrets from two US tech companies.
Xiaomi, the world’s third largest smartphone vendor behind Samsung and Apple, has finally opened up shop in the US and Europe.
A panel of federal judges in San Francisco has overturned a decision that required Google to pull the controversial film The Innocence of Muslims from its video-hosting site YouTube. The ruling is being hailed as a victory for Google and for free speech. It also marks a big win for movie studios.
Mindy fans, rejoice.
Oculus Rift isn’t launching until early 2016, but Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of its parent company Facebook, is already thinking about what it will look like a decade from now.
If you asked Airbnb about its impact in San Francisco, the company would direct you to a rosy economic impact study that found the home-rental marketplace helped contribute $469 million to the local economy, with the average host earning $13,000 a year.
US presidential hopeful Jeb Bush thinks recent health care reform measures, better known as Obamacare, ought to be repealed. He has also become quite a fan of the Apple Watch, and today he suggested that one could replace the other. Here’s the clip: