Twitter has finally made a big move to become more competitive in social media - or it's jumped the shark, depending on your point of view. On Tuesday, Twitter began rolling out a completely redesigned profile page that looks a lot like Facebook and Google+.
Last week, the AP released an exclusive investigative report showing that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had developed a "Cuban Twitter" with - perhaps - covert, political motives. On Tuesday, USAID's administrator answered to Congress on the matter.
We've already seen that Latinos watch more streaming digital video that the general U.S. consumer. Now, the Motion Picture Association of America's newest study on moviegoers at the theater has found that Latino oversample in that arena, too.
The long-anticipated death of support for the over-a-decade old Windows XP operating system happens on April 8. For those who are still stuck on the XP ecosystem, here are a few tips for how to move on.
Ecommerce, with Amazon.com leading the charge, has already decimated lingering brick-and-mortar retail stores that sell electronics and tech widgets. Now, with its new Amazon Dash gadget, the world's largest online retailer is signaling it's serious about going after your grocery store, too.
Rumors hit the web this weekend of the possibility of a (new) set-top box from Google, this time called Android TV. But with the Google Chromecast gaining support from manufacturers and software developers, why would Google feel the need for another stab at your entertainment system?
While the fight over smartphone anti-theft legislation continues in the California State legislature, Samsung has announced its new Galaxy S5 devices will come with the so-called "kill switch" app that law enforcement and government prosecutors have been calling for.
Well, it was inevitable, and now it's almost here: Twitter, now a public company with investors to please, is reportedly working on lots of new ads to push in front of users' faces.
Manos Accelerator, a Latino-focused startup accelerator, announced this week that it was extending its partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs, after a successful first 2013 round of supporting Latino and Latin American startups.
Earlier this year, Google officially released Chromecast's software developer's kit (SDK), which we previously predicted would lead to a flood of apps supporting Google's $35 HDTV streaming dongle. Since then, Chromecast enthusiasts have searched through the deluge for the best Chromecast apps.
This week in social media, Turkey lifted its Twitter ban, Vine and ChatOn added ShapChat features, WhatsApp experienced growing pains, and it turns out the U.S. government created a "Cuban Twitter" to stir Cuban unrest against their leaders. It's time for Social Media Saturday!
The two-week public fight over the new CEO of Mozilla Corp., Brendan Eich, concluded on Thursday when Eich announced on his blog that he would be resigning from his position. Cue the recriminations.
Nest Labs, maker of smart home appliances like the Nest thermostat and Nest Protect smoke and CO alarm has announced a recall of the Protect, citing safety concerns with one of the alarm's futuristic features.
This week the Associated Press dropped a bombshell report detailing how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) secretly created ZunZuneo, a "Cuban Twitter" network, in what appears to have been an attempt to damage the Cuban government's standing. Now Congress has decided to look into the matter.
When Google sold its struggling Motorola Mobility division to Lenovo, it didn't sell off the entire thing: Google kept the good stuff. One of the things Google held on to was the futuristic, modular smartphone program, Project Ara, which the company just released new details about.
Amazon joined in the smart TV race on Wednesday when it unveiled Amazon "Fire TV," a powerful streaming box that offers some features that the competition, Google, Apple, and Roku, does not. Nevertheless, at $99, is Fire TV enough to win over couch potato-tech enthusiasts?
The U.S. government reportedly tried to create unrest in Cuba to undermine its communist government by secretly creating a "Cuban Twitter." The project, seemingly a throwback to the U.S.'s Cold War anti-Castro tactics, had ties to the State Department's U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The winner of the first annual Latino Startup of the Year was announced on Wednesday. Interesante, a website and mobile app that helps Latinos "discover and share the most interesting things in the world" beat three other finalists and took home the grand prize.
Telefónica, one of the largest Spanish telecommunications companies with a big presence in Latin America, announced this week that it had acquired eyeOS, a cloud computing startup behind a suite of open source web applications. With this acquisition, Telefónica further enters the realm of enterprise internet solutions, as well as open-source software.
It's confirmed: The way to get your company in front of mobile users' eyes is through an app, not a mobile version of your website. Apps dominate the mobile web, with 86 percent of mobile users' time spent on apps instead of websites - and that's no April Fools joke.
For a good long while, it looked like the Google Chromecast - the TV dongle that streams content from the web and mobile devices - would never expand its range of compatible apps. Now new apps that are Chromcast compatible are coming fast and frequently, including Rdio, Crackle, and Vudu, announced today.
The Latino Startup Alliance and Hispanicize are going to crown one lucky (i.e., innovative and hard-working) startup with the first ever "Startup of the Year" award, later this week at Hispanicize 2014. But at the beginning week, the four finalists for the competition were selected and announced.
Hispanicize 2014 kicked off this week appropriately with a look at the state of Hispanic journalism. The session revealed the results of the first ever survey of U.S. Latino journalists and included an in depth discussion of the changing media and technology landscape, and how it affects Latinos.
Facebook and Google are officially in a race to connect the rest of the world to the internet - and both companies are working on surprising means to do it. On Friday, Facebook released new details about its initiative, called Internet.org.
A lot happened this week in social media: while Twitter keeps trying to be more user-friendly, we found out that Instagram is more popular than Twitter with active smartphone users. Meanwhile, Facebook made a purchase that redefines the company's ambitions and some Pinterest users got hacked - and flooded with butt pictures. It's Social Media Saturday!
