Atlanta Startup Yik Yak Raises $10 Million Yik Yak is an Atlanta based app startup. They've created an anonymous, proximity based social network that's primarily tapped into college campuses. Realizing that many students on college campuses may participate in the same activities and events, and many also feel freer to communicate about those activities anonymously, [...]
On Wednesday at Google I/O, the company discussed Android Wear quite a bit. We have already told you a good bit about Android Wear here and here, but in a nutshell, the OS is just an extension of Android: Enter Android Wear, which extends Android, and its ecosystem of apps, to that most familiar spot for [...]
Verizon Throttle October For the better part of the last three years Verizon Wireless has been segueing customers away from unlimited data plans. Those plans are no longer available however a system malfunction earlier this year allows some unlimited customers to renew. Customers with unlimited data who never formerly renewed their contracts and have simply [...]
One of the biggest questions surrounding the Microsoft acquisition of Nokia's device business concerned Nokia's Android devices. The popular thought was that Microsoft would begin phasing out the Android devices, in favor of its own Windows Phone OS. However, it seems that Microsoft will continue Nokia's Android push, at least for the time being. On [...]
Last September Box CEO Aaron Levie made the first mention of Box Notes. This new functionality would allow Box's large consumer and enterprise user base to leverage the cloud storage platform and write, edit, store, collaborate and share notes. The feature was seen as an Evernote competitor, than a Microsoft competitor, then some Google competitor. [...]
One of the most unsexy features of iOS 7 is probably the most useful. Apple introduced a kill switch feature in the last version of iOS. This allows the owner to remotely wipe and disable their iPhone if it gets lost or stolen, rendering the unit dead if it slipped into the wrong hands. Technobuffalo.com [...]
Google, through it's Nest division, has announced that they are acquiring Dropcam in a deal worth $555 million dollars. Dropcam is the company behind the easiest personal surveillance cameras on the market. As the name suggests, setting up Dropcam is almost as easy as dropping the camera where you want to set it and going. [...]
According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is preparing not just one smartwatch/fitness/health wearable, but several. This is certainly in line with many of the health based initiatives - Health, and HealthKit to name a few - that Apple announced at WWDC a short time ago. The new device(s), according to the Journal, are aimed at bringing new functionality [...]
Nintendo hasn't had a great couple of years. In fact the only companies in a worse position in the tech industry are probably Nokia and Blackberry. But things started to look up for Nintendo, as we reported earlier in the week. Regardless of strategy, Nintendo managed to attach more Mario Kart 8 games to console [...]
We've done a good amount of reporting on the virtual currency Bitcoin over the past few years here at Techfaster.com We've seen the virtual currency take a stride at becoming more mainstream with Overstock.com, Dish Networks and Expedia adopting bitcoin as a method of payment. Even our friends at Mobile Nations allow you to buy [...]
