Google still makes lots of money, Motorola doesn’t, and Larry Page wants to...
“Great is just never good enough,” according to Google CEO Larry Page. And on today’s Q3 2013 earnings call, the state of Google mirrors its CEO’s statement pretty well. Google itself is doing as well...
View ArticleElon Musk wants to put a Tesla engine inside James Bond’s submersible Lotus
Tesla’s CEO has apparently dropped $ 866,000 on the amphibious Lotus Espirit from The Spy Who Loved Me. His intent? He wants to turn the prop car (which never actually swam) into a true aquatic...
View ArticleFantastical 2 for iPhone wants to be your all-in-one calendar and reminder app
From its humble beginnings on OS X, Fantastical’s contextual input changed the way plenty of people set appointments and reminders. When it arrived on the iPhone last November, the app became the...
View ArticleMTV Artists iPhone app wants to help you discover new music, provide a deeper...
The number of media discovery apps keeps getting bigger by the day, and the latest to join the frenzy is MTV. Simply dubbed MTV Artists, the newly announced iPhone application is loaded with a vast...
View ArticleGoogle expands Glass sales but still wants a one-to-one chat with every buyer
Gone are the days when you needed to visit a Google office in person to pick up a pair of Explorer Edition spectacles. Following the recent expansion of the wearable project, which allowed existing...
View ArticleGoogle wants local governments opening up more data to improve your local search
Google already uses a handful of municipal government data to provide services like mass transit navigation, but it now wants a bigger helping. The search firm’s Americas President, Margo Georgiadis,...
View ArticleIBM accusing Twitter of patent infringement, wants to strike a deal
Twitter’s previously said it wanted to steer clear of patent litigation and focus on our feeds, but IBM may other ideas. In a tweak to its pre-IPO S-1 filing with the US SEC, Twitter let slip that...
View ArticleMotorola wants you to tattoo a smartphone microphone onto your throat
Okay, where to start on this one? Simply put, Motorola has applied for a patent of a microphone with a tranceiver and power supply that is designed to be tattooed onto your throat. The idea is to...
View ArticleBen Huh wants internet culture to go pop so you can has more lulz
If Ben Huh, the man behind the meme-generating Cheezburger site, were writing this, you’d probably just be looking at a string of gifs and the occasional LOLcat. And, chances are, you’d find that...
View ArticlePocket 5.0 wants to make reading what you love even easier
Pocket founder Nate Weiner introduced the next phase of the app formerly known as Read It Later at the company’s first-ever press event this afternoon. Pocket 5.0 puts the focus squarely on the user...
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