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iPads have found a solid niche in health care

October 29, 2014 11:00 PM | Kia Kokalitcheva

Apple has been talking a lot lately about the usefulness of the iPad in vertical markets, and the health care vertical might benefit from the device most of all.

Watch critic Anita Sarkeesian talk GamerGate on ‘The Colbert Report’

October 29, 2014 9:15 PM | Jeffrey Grubb

Colbert takes on GamerGate.

Flipboard’s latest update integrates Zite’s tech to make you fall in love with digital magazines

October 29, 2014 9:01 PM | Tom Cheredar

Popular digital magazine app Flipboard today is rolling out perhaps the biggest revamp of the service since its initial launch, which features improved navigation, new ways to discover content, a daily news feature, revised smartphone design, and more.

Microsoft enters the health wearables space with $199 ‘Band’ bracelet

October 29, 2014 6:19 PM | Mark Sullivan

The new device contains 10 sensors for tracking steps, heart rate, sleep, and other biometrics.

Skype and Lync updated to support OS X Yosemite

October 29, 2014 4:54 PM | Kia Kokalitcheva

Skype now supports Mac OS X’s latest version — Yosemite users rejoice.

Pandora & Smule are kicking everyone’s ass in mobile music revenue & downloads, App Annie reports

October 29, 2014 4:20 PM | Tom Cheredar

Pandora might be the least exciting of the major streaming music services, in part because it doesn’t offer on-demand music playback or a robust premium monthly subscription service. That, however, didn’t stop the decade-old music company from beating all of its competitors last month.

3 important lessons from HealthBeat (and ‘the system is broken’ isn’t one of them)

October 29, 2014 4:02 PM | Mark Sullivan

Some of the discussion at HealthBeat centered on identifying the real problems, and some of it focused on new technology and tactics for fixing the problems.

Google Wallet can now add money automatically and alert you when your balance is low

October 29, 2014 2:30 PM | Ruth Reader

Google is rolling out an update to its wallet service that lets users set up recurring bank transfers to Google Wallet.

Google Drive for Android gets Material Design update, improvements to search, sharing, and the PDF viewer

October 29, 2014 2:09 PM | Emil Protalinski

Google today updated Google Drive for Android with a new design and features related to search, sharing, and PDFs. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.

Bill Gates explains how he thinks about tech’s biggest problem: inequality (in 4 quotes)

October 29, 2014 2:00 PM | Gregory Ferenstein

The billionaire disagrees with famous economist Thomas Piketty.

Grand Theft Auto Online is still Take-Two’s biggest digital moneymaker

October 29, 2014 1:30 PM | Jeffrey Grubb

The game contributed more cash to the publisher’s digital business than any other product.

Take-Two made $22M on its investment in gameplay livestreaming king Twitch

October 29, 2014 1:24 PM | Dean Takahashi

Amazon’s $970M acquisition of livestreaming firm paid off for Grand Theft Auto publisher.

Hands-on with Google’s Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Nexus Player

October 29, 2014 1:20 PM | Harrison Weber

The next wave of Nexus devices, the Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Nexus Player, aren’t available to the public just yet — but today we sat down with Google’s Android team for a first look at the new devices and the Lollipop OS that powers them.

Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two speeds past Wall Street’s earnings expectations

October 29, 2014 1:12 PM | Dean Takahashi

Digital game sales and the older Civilization game helped quarterly sales.

Facebook gaming declines as fewer people use the social service on their desktop

October 29, 2014 1:00 PM | Mike Minotti

Fewer people are accessing Facebook on their desktops, which in turns mean fewer are playing Facebook games.

YouTube adds ‘creator credits’ field to videos in channels with at least 10k subscribers

October 29, 2014 12:20 PM | Tom Cheredar

YouTube is attempting to clean up the description section of video pages by launching a new “creator credits” field today for popular YouTube channels.

David Hasselhoff wants to keep up with Kim Kardashian — by launching his own mobile game

October 29, 2014 12:00 PM | Dean Takahashi

Hoff Zombie Beach is the latest celebrity to dive into mobile games.

Cambrian Genomics CEO: We’ll design every human on a computer and make poop smell like bananas

October 29, 2014 11:53 AM | Chris O'Brien

VIENNA, Austria — Say this for Austen Heinz: His vision for the future will either thrill you or leave you fearing for the future of humanity. There’s not really any room in the middle.

EA is on a roll — and Wall Street loves it

October 29, 2014 11:30 AM | Jeffrey Grubb

EA’s profit margins are better than ever while it’s also laying out a strong plan to deliver on new-gen consoles and mobile platforms.

Google Play Movies & TV now shows actor and soundtrack info while you watch via Chromecast or Nexus Player

October 29, 2014 11:23 AM | Emil Protalinski

Google today updated its Google Play Movies & TV app for Android, which lets you watch purchased or rented content from the company’s store, with a revamped design and new features. You can download the latest version directly from Google Play (if you don’t see it yet, be patient as it’s rolling out “over the next week”).

Watch Mike Tyson play himself in Punch-Out!! It’s ’80s glory in 3 minutes

October 29, 2014 11:19 AM | Gregory Ferenstein

And, of course, hilarity ensued.

Watch the first prototype of Google’s Ara modular smartphone project in action

October 29, 2014 10:48 AM | Emil Protalinski

Until now, all we’ve seen so far are industrial design models. This one actually boots up.

10 startups show off their tech at HealthBeat’s Innovation Showcase

October 29, 2014 10:12 AM | Mark Sullivan, Kia Kokalitcheva

Many of the companies in the showcase demonstrated new ways of using clinical data pulled from the electronic patient record.

Famigo brings family-focused entertainment (and parental sanity) to GM connected cars

October 29, 2014 9:45 AM | Tom Cheredar

Mobile devices are popular for keeping children engaged during long stretches of boring grownup activities. Of course, you need an adult around to make sure kids aren’t accessing anything inappropriate. But if that adult has to keep their eyes on the road while driving, they’ll need a service like Famigo.

Skype launches its redesigned Windows app out of preview

October 29, 2014 9:09 AM | Emil Protalinski

Skype today launched its redesigned Windows app, following a preview period that lasted just under three weeks. You can download the latest version now directly from Skype.com.

Quantium to Leverage the MapR Distribution including Hadoop for Real-Time Analys...

October 29, 2014 9:00 AM | Business Wire

Press Release MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced that Quantium, the leading data analytics firm in Australia, has selected the MapR Distribution including Hadoop to perform…

Arkadium’s simple Twisty Hollow casual iOS game debuts today after a lot of effort

October 29, 2014 9:00 AM | Dean Takahashi

It looks simple, but this casual title represents a lot of investment by Arkadium.

Twitter partners with IBM to let enterprises leverage its social data for making complex decisions

October 29, 2014 8:51 AM | Jordan Novet

Twitter announced a partnership with IBM today to help big businesses pull better insights from social data.

Twitter launches website to track the U.S. 2014 election, will share data with its news partners

October 29, 2014 8:16 AM | Ruth Reader

Twitter is working to cash in on the real-time events that harness user engagement in order to get news users and up activity levels.

Mobile Internet investment hits record $19.2B — up 232% in last 12 months

October 29, 2014 8:13 AM | John Koetsier, VB Insight

Mobile Internet companies raked in a total of $19.2 billion in new investment over the last year, more than double the previous period, according to investment advisory firm Digi-Capital.
The big winner? Mobile commerce, with $4.2 billion.

HP jumps into 3D technology with Sprout PC and an industrial printer

October 29, 2014 7:35 AM | Barry Levine

The company declared today that it is going big into 3D printing and releasing a new product category of “immersive computing,” including a personal computer with 3D capture and manipulation called Sprout.

Fitness tracker Strava raises $18.5M, wants to build Facebook for athletes

October 29, 2014 7:02 AM | Ruth Reader

Strava, a GPS tracking app for cyclers and runners, just raised $18.5 million to expand its services to more athletes.

Google announces Project Ara developer conference: Mountain View on January 14, Singapore on January 21

October 29, 2014 6:34 AM | Emil Protalinski

During the full-day events Google plans to share the latest on the Ara platform and promises to have Project Ara team members at all event sites.

Krimmeni Technologies Raises $11.7M in Series A Venture Financing Round

October 29, 2014 6:31 AM | Business Wire

Press Release Krimmeni Technologies (Kt), a cyber-security firm developing ultra-secure communication technologies for Cloud-based data centers and the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) market, announced today it secured $11.7 million in Series A…

Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place

October 29, 2014 6:29 AM | Harrison Weber

Here’s a list of today’s biggest funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share.

Forget about payment apps: the new battle is around payment terminals

October 29, 2014 6:14 AM | Ruth Reader

In order for Apple Pay to become the payment of the future, merchants actually need to be able to accept it. A new crop of competitors are popping up to provide the most affordable, technology-savvy solution for businesses eager to adopt Apple Pay and EMV chip cards.

Microsoft enters the health wearables space with $199 ‘Band’ bracelet

Flipboard’s latest update will make you fall in love with digital magazines

Silicon Valley can keep its Teslas and robotic cars: Slovakia’s AeroMobil just unveiled a flying car

Forget about payment apps: the new battle is around payment terminals

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