In what initially came as a shocker to most, Zillow has announced an acquisition of Trulia for $3.5 billion dollars. The acquisition is an all stock deal, for the benefit of Trulia shareholders according to Trulia executive Peter Flint. The New York Times reported on Monday that Zillow and their Chief Executive Spencer Rascoff had [...]
Most of the technology world knows about Google's recent squabbles with residents in San Francisco. People living in San Francisco had a problem with Google using public bus routes and stops without paying for them, in order to pick up Google workers and shuttle them to their Mountain View campus. The people of San Francisco [...]
Today, Amazon announced a new category of products in its ever expanding ecommerce platform: a 3D Printed Products store. The "3D Printed Products store, [is] a marketplace that gives customers access to more than 200 unique print on-demand products, many that can be customized by material, size, styles and color variations, and personalized with text [...]
The iPhone 6 continues to draw near. Most of us in the tech media know that Apple is most likely to debut the iPhone 6 at a press event in mid September and then make it available either the last Thursday or Friday of the month. With all that in mind Apple continues to prepare [...]
It is no secret that the Windows Phone App store is pretty barren. Sure, you have all of the standard Facebook's and Twitter's, but there is an incredible distance between the sort of selection you find on the Google Play Store or iTunes App Store. While the selection is sparse, the market share of [...]
Apple OSX Yosemite Apple's latest version of OSX, Yosemite, is now open for public beta. People interested in the beta can follow this link to the OSX Beta Program. From there they will get a special code they can use in the Apple Store so that they can download Yosemite. This will be the same version [...]
I'm not sure where the disconnect is. We have a six year old daughter who has had an iPad mini since she was five and she's had some kind of connected since she was three. Coming from my days as Thedroidguy, she's used both Android and iOS devices. And to date, we've never had a [...]
T-Mobile continues to blaze across the wireless spectrum. The un-carrier, noted for their new contract-less offerings, has had phones and tablets on an in-house financing program called "equipment installment plans". After shedding the traditional wireless subsidy model, the company began offering qualified customers the ability to make a monthly payment on their device. After the [...]
These pieces form designer Tory Burch are designed to hold the Fitbit Flex tracking device. Fitbit Tory Burch Back in February Fitbit announced on their blog that they were partnering with designer Tory Burch to come up with a collection of Fitbit accessories for the Fitbit Flex. Burch is an award winning designer [...]
It is no secret that Y Combinator is one of, usually considered the, most successful startup accelerators in the world. But just how successful was revealed on Tuesday. Sam Altman, the President of Y Combinator, published a broad overview of the accelerator's portfolio stats on Tuesday. It is incredibly short, so here are the details [...]
