Meanwhile, Snapchat wants almost $1 million for disappearing ads, advertisers are Pinterest for a fool, and Facebook announced Amber Alerts and AI tools for everyone.
Beyond Net Neutrality, the FCC has a new issue putting it in right in the middle of the political crosshairs, after President Obama called on states to loosen restrictions on municipal broadband.
They say part of success is just showing up, but aspiring entrepreneurs could learn a different lesson from the example of CEO of LinkAmerica, and self-described "serial entrepreneur," Andrés Ruzo: The biggest part of success is not giving up.
This week, President Obama called for new laws protecting Americans from the kind of massive data breaches that defined the consumer cybersecurity narrative in 2014, along with a proposal to limit technology companies' use of student data.
In which we take a look at the app Trivia Crack. It's the latest game sweeping the App stores: Trivia Crack features a winning combination of social media, anonymity, asynchronous play, a fun, bright interface and, of course, addictive trivia.
This week in social media, Pew Research released a new survey on social media use in the U.S. The research found that while Facebook far outweighs other social media networks, at the same time, it showed little growth compared to the rest.
The Consumer Electronics Show is wrapping up its week in Las Vegas, and while the majority of the focus is (obviously) consumer electronics, these three big can't-miss announcements dominated the headlines for CES 2015.
Google may have begun last year's ongoing public conversation about the technology industry's lack of diversity by finally being transparent about its workforce demographics, but Intel (which has regularly released such reports for years already) will become the first tech company to do something about it.
This week in social media, Facebook continued encroaching on YouTube's turf, Twitter continued rolling out changes that mirror Facebook, Pinterest officially launched advertising, and Snapchat raised nearly half a billion in funding from an eager investment round.
This year, more than any in recent memory, we awoke to the realities of the problems and promise inherent in what has become our hyper-connected, 21st century lives.
New Year's is a time when everyone hits the gym, vows to eat right, save money, and accomplish myriad other goals to make their lives better. But will power alone is hardly enough for most to follow through on New Year's resolutions. That's where these apps can help.
Latin Post Tech's weekly roundup of social media news. This week in social media, Facebook users discovered that an algorithmically driven "look back" at the year is pretty accurate -- maybe too depressingly accurate.
Yaveo, a streaming entertainment TV subscription for Spanish-language programming over the Internet, puts Latinos at the center of media history: It's the first of its kind Internet-only TV subscription to launch in the U.S.
The hermit nation continued to have problems with its national Internet connectivity on Tuesday, though the downtime lasted minutes this time instead of hours.
It's a technological Christmas tradition older than some Christmas movies now deemed to be classics: tracking Santa's delivery progress on Christmas Eve. Now, in 2014, there's competition in the field, so here are the best Santa trackers for your curious kid this Dec. 24th.
When Snapchat turned down a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook late last year, it was hard to tell if Snapchat and its now 24-year-old CEO Evan Spiegel were incredibly confident, unbelievably filled with hubris, implausibly stupid -- or all of the above.
In what has become a New Year's tradition and a fascinating look at ourselves, Google released the annual roundup of the top global searches for 2014. Judging from the top ten, 2014 was actually a bit of a traumatic year for everyone.
T-Mobile announced its latest challenge to the wireless competition on Tuesday with a new Uncarrier 8.0 "data stash" feature for some of its non-contract smartphone plans. It's like rollover minutes for 4G data, with a couple caveats, but also a way to get 10GB of promo data for free.
Android 5.0 Lollipop is the best mobile operating system Google has produced so far, adding a ton of advantages to the world's most popular mobile OS while making it less complicated to use than ever before.
This week's Tap That App Tuesday features an app that nicely meets the intersection of two crucial end-of-year goals: knocking out your shopping list without breaking the bank, and giving back to charity during the holidays.
Technology is connecting people like never before, but the language barrier remains one very analogue problem that's not so easily bridged by digital tech. That doesn't mean that big companies aren't trying though, and Microsoft-owned Skype just launched a preview of its Skype Translator program on Monday.
