Nick Bilton got the scoop: “In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images on Twitter and bypass Instagram, the popular mobile-centric photo-sharing network, according to people who work at the company but asked not to be named as they [...]
There’s so many interesting tidbits contained in this Businessweek profile of AB InBev, the world’s largest brewing conglomerate, and 52-year-old Carlos Brito, the man in charge of the company, that I’m at a loss where to begin. It’s a deeply fascinating look at how there is the runaway train of AB InBev and then craft [...]
Blue Bottle Coffee, which has become a staple of the Bay Area, the equivalent of Stumptown Coffee for that area, has taken $20 million from venture capitalists, who are banking that the area chain can go national and maintain its coffee snob street cred. Oddly enough, the last coffee chain to take outside investment for [...]
1. “Google isn’t taking the step of asking developers to make separate phone and tablet versions of their apps, as Apple has done, but this effort is still notable and long overdue. While Apple proudly touts that more than 250,000 apps have been built specifically for the iPad, Google has declined to say just how [...]
Google’s market valuation surpassed Microsoft’s today, making the search giant the second-largest technology company on the planet ($249.5 billion value). Why is this significant? On the whole, it’s probably not. But, like Apple’s rise to becoming the largest company on the planet (market value of $632.7 billion) during the past decade, it does signal a [...]
Apple’s maps debacle, which CEO Tim Cook is now apologizing for, could have been avoided if the company set appropriate expectations. Even a small mention that the mapping data isn’t on the same level as Google’s (but would get there eventually) could have offset the ill will Apple has incurred since the iOS 6 update. “While we’re [...]
One way to read this Bloomberg story is at face value: that cable companies are making console video games irrelevant because they are “gearing up” to offer video games directly to customers. The other way to read the article is to laugh and suggest that Bloomberg got duped by the three major cable providers in [...]
“It’s hard to know how many people feel like they’re shopping at a store when they’re backing projects on Kickstarter, but we want to make sure that it’s no one. Today we’re introducing a number of changes to reinforce that Kickstarter isn’t a store — it’s a new way for creators and audiences to work [...]
Ben Popper has a deep-dive into Google’s acquisition history for The Verge. It’s long, but worth a read to get a glimpse behind the curtain. In Silicon Valley, the natural order for founders who are acquired is to work in a company for a short period of time while their stock options vest, then leave [...]
Farhad Manjoo assembles the story of how Apple invented the iPhone from documents made public during the Samsung trial: This is the story of how Apple reinvented the phone. The general outlines of this tale have been told before, most thoroughly in Isaacson’s biography. But the Samsung case—which ended last month with a resounding victory [...]
