The Philippines Is The First Country To Pass National Ride-Hail Regulation
The Department of Transportation and Communications announced it will develop new legislation that will allow companies like Uber to operate legally. Warren Little / Getty Images Months of flouting...
View Article1,272 Rare Pepes
Collect them now before the market crashes! hastily-packed-hobo-snacks.tumblr.com Do you know Pepe? Pepe is that meme frog you've probably seen around the internet, either leering creepily or looking...
View ArticleUber Is Rolling Out Cash Payments In Hyderabad
The ride-hailing service embarks on an experiment in a market with low credit card penetration. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters Uber is now accepting cash or credit in Hyderabad, India. On Monday...
View ArticleInstagram Says Shutting Down The Shade Room Was A Mistake
The social photo sharing service says it wrongly removed The Shade Room account, but refuses to elaborate. A screenshot of The Shade Room's Instagram account, taken December 16th, 2014 The Shade Room...
View ArticleSidecar Experiments With Medical Marijuana Delivery
Medical marijuana startup Meadow partners with Sidecar to bolster its weed delivery service. David McNew / Reuters Sidecar may have been late to the ride-sharing market, but the upstart transportation...
View ArticleLily Camera Is A Drone That Automatically Follows You
Meet the friendliest drone on the market. Lily is a brand-new drone coming to market that makes drone photography easier than anything else out there. Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed That's because the drone...
View ArticleGoogle's Self-Driving Cars Have Been In 11 Accidents
“Accidents will happen whether you’re in a car or a self-driving car.” Google In the six years that Google has been experimenting with self-driving cars, there have been a few accidents. But perhaps...
View ArticleThe Cyber Caliphate Released Its First Threat Video But Nobody's Buying It
The so-called “Cyber Caliphate” released a video Monday claiming that they are about to launch a series of attacks. But the internet was kind of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Still from the video released by the Cyber...
View ArticleVerizon Likely To Retain TechCrunch And Engadget
AOL According to multiple sources inside AOL, Verizon plans to retain most of AOL's editorial properties once the $4.4 billion acquisition is approved later this summer.Currently, Verizon has no plans...
View ArticleVerizon Security Flaw Left Millions Of Home Internet Users Vulnerable To Attack
A simple browser plug-in was all you needed to gain access to the internet giant’s customer accounts. Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report / Via news.verizonenterprise.com With its $4.4...
View ArticleThis Heart Health App Is Seeing Big Usage On The Apple Watch
Preliminary data from Hello Heart suggests that iPhone users who own an Apple Watch are likely to be a bit more health conscious than their iPhone-only counterparts. Hello Heart / Via...
View ArticleFacebook Contractors To Get $15-An-Hour Minimum Wage, Paid Parental Leave
The company will increase wages and benefits, including 15 paid days off and parental leave support, for vendors and contract employees. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Justin Sullivan / Getty Images...
View ArticleThis Is What A Drone Fashion Show Looks Like
San Francisco-based fashion company Betabrand commenced Silicon Valley Fashion Week? last night, and they want you to know that the question mark was intentional. But first, the drone netting. So no...
View ArticleNow You Can Order Pizza By Tweeting The Pizza Emoji
Tweetza! Ray Conrado / Via Flickr: rccandidphotos Hungry? Tweet ? @Dominos. Soon, that's all you'll need to do to order a pizza. Domino's said today that come May 20 it will begin accepting pizza...
View ArticleStartup By Former Apple Exec Promises "First Great Jobs" Of The On-Demand Era
Ron Johnson, the man behind the Apple Stores, has recovered from a disastrous stint as J.C. Penney’s CEO. His new delivery and set-up service for personal electronics, Enjoy, promises a new approach...
View ArticleUber Poaches Google PR Boss
Rachel Whetstone replaces David Plouffe as Uber’s SVP of public policy and communications. Meanwhile, Plouffe becomes chief advisor to CEO Travis Kalanick — and takes a seat on the company’s board....
View ArticleMarriott's Concierge App Lets Guests Text In Any Request, Anytime
The hospitality chain’s mobile app now operates as a kind of digital concierge. For when dialing zero for reception just seems too arduous. Afp / Getty Images For those times when interacting with an...
View ArticleThis Yale Doctor Is Coding His Own iPhone Health App
Not many physicians have time to be programmers. But E. Kevin Hall does, and he’s working on a ResearchKit app that he hopes will help patients. Apple Senior Vice President of Operations Jeff Williams...
View ArticleGett Is Bringing Its Corporate Service To New York
The ride-hail company hopes it can carry over the success it has had with corporate clients in Europe and Israel to its sole U.S. market . Gett Gett — Israel's answer to the ubiquitous ride-hailing...
View ArticleCybersecurity Companies Point To More Aggressive Hacking By China
New types of attacks led by groups based out of China have been highlighted in reports by Kaspersky and FireEye. Scyther5 / Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO – A cyber-espionage group targeting government,...
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